Five months on! Westminster City Council has failed to fix fencing on the Hall Park estate

Five months ago, in early April, local Little Venice Councillors Melvyn Caplan and Lorraine Dean reported a broken fence between Hall Park Estate and St Mary’s Churchyard. This issue remains unresolved, and so there is a significant amount of anti-social behaviour disturbing people living nearby. Now, more fencing has been destroyed. Labour-led Westminster Council needs to fix the fencing as a priority.

We spoke to Cllr Caplan, who explained,

I'm standing between Cuthbert and Crompton Houses on the Hall Park Estate. Lorraine and I, for the last five months, have been trying to get this fence repaired, because residents of the Hall Park Estate need to feel safe and not have people able to come in and out of the estate as they please.

Five months, it's way too long. Reinforced fencing is what is needed here, and it's needed right now.

 

 


 

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Melvyn Caplan

Melvyn Caplan

Councillor for Little Venice Ward
Melvyn has lived in the area and has served as a councillor for Little Venice Ward for over 36 years.  He was previously a Sales Director at IBM where he worked for 25 years.  He has a degree in Economics and is a qualified accountant.

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