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.
We need to see these tents cleared and help given to people sleeping rough, such as mental health and addiction support, alongside a sustainable route off the streets.
Immediate action alongside suitable support for the homeless is needed.
We spoke to Cllr Paul Swaddle, Leader of the Conservative Group at Westminster Council, on Park Lane. Paul explained
"I'm here on Park Lane, where, as you can see, there's a tent encampment behind me, one of the many across Westminster.
"The Westminster Council is not doing enough to resolve this issue, to get these people off the streets and to make sure that these messes are cleared up across our city."
Click here to sign our petition calling for these tents to be removed.
