Police have secured 3 partial closure orders on properties in Newport following reports of drug-related anti-social behaviour, excessive noise and criminal activity affecting nearby residents.
The orders were granted at Isle of Wight Magistrates’ Court yesterday (Wednesday) after officers presented evidence linked to addresses at Nippert Court and 2 properties on West Street.
The closure orders give police the power to arrest anyone who enters or remains at the properties unless they are specifically authorised under the court order.
The restrictions will remain in place for the next 3 months.
Police said they had received reports of excessive noise, drug paraphernalia being left in communal areas and people attending the properties while under the influence of drink and drugs throughout the day and night.
The orders were secured following joint work between the West Wight Neighbourhood Policing Team, Southern Housing and Vectis Housing.
Sergeant Chantal Miller, of the West Wight Neighbourhood Policing Team, has said:
“We are committed to addressing drug-related harm, a West Wight Neighbourhood Team Priority, and the impact this has on neighbours and the wider community.
“This order gives us additional powers to tackle individuals behaving in an anti-social manner and to tackle criminal activity in and around these properties.
“I hope this order shows that we will do all we can to stop anti-social behaviour and the enormous impact it creates.”
Police are continuing to urge anyone affected by anti-social behaviour in the area to report incidents so officers can target patrols and take further action.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary on 101 or report information online here.
Little wonder council tax is so high. Paying for people like this, who should be stripped of all the benefits.
So closing the places the criminals live will help? Aren’t they just going to go to another place…just saying
I remember when Nippert Court was built; come to that, I remember when the West Street properties were built. They were intended, not all of the flats but many of them, to be suitable for elderly and disabled people. They are of course housing association properties. They should not have been allowed to become refuges for single young men, to trash them and turn them into drug dens. I used to chair Medina Housing – we inherited a lot of council housing tenants, the great majority of whom were fine, paid their rent, respected their properties. But there was a hard core who did not. And to see these relatively new-build properties abused in this way – well how was that problem created? Who let flats for the elderly and disabled to single youths? For every flat inhabited by a yob, a needy person does without.
From what I can make out, the low life seem to getting priority over every thing and every body these days