‘Tent Cities’ must be tackled - sign the petition to Westminster City Council

As the major "tent city" encampment is finally cleared from the top of Park Lane, we spoke with Cllr Paul Swaddle and Cllr Tim Barnes. Cllr Swaddle, Conservative Group Leader at Westminster City Council, explained "I am pleased that Westminster City Council has finally removed the tent enc

Cllr Paul Swaddle is the Leader of the Conservative Group at Westminster City Council. He went to Park Lane this morning to see first-hand how the problem of the tent city is getting worse, and how the Labour-led Westminster Council and TfL is failing to take action.

Tent Cities are back across Westminster and local people are calling for action. We spoke with Cllr Paul Swaddle and West End by-election candidate Tim Barnes on Park Lane.

Local people, school children, workers and visitors should not have to tolerate seeing tents build up on our streets. We regularly receive reports of drug use, drug dealing and defecation on the streets near homeless tents, alongside local people being verbally abused by some of those begging.