Before the school summer holidays, residents in Ashdown Close had been suffering a large number of ASB incidents.

These were all related to secondary school children from the Oakwood Campus and ranged from general nuisance and litter dropping incidents up to criminal damage.

Cllr’s Dan Daley, Peter Hooper, David Pickett along with myself have had met with heads from all the secondary schools on the site and discussed the problems with the PCSO for the area.

Nearly a month has passed since this meeting and local neighbours to the school have happily reported a massive reduction in problems. This is to such an extent that we can now mark this issue “Case Closed”.

All of us, will of course, continue to monitor the situation and we have a follow up meeting arranged at the end of November to discuss how matters are continuing.