White paint is latest weapon in fight against Rosyth crime
Matt Meade • Published 22 Apr 2010 06:50
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GABLE ends in a Rosyth housing estate are to be painted BRIGHT WHITE in an attempt to reduce crime.
Six houses in Sherbrooke Road and two in Esmonde court will receive the lick of paint as well as the installation of new 'white light' lamposts in the streets.
It is thought that increasing brightness will help reduce problems such as anti-social behaviour and car crime.
Council locality manager Lynn Hoey revealed the Home Scotland-led initiative at a recent meeting of Rosyth Community Council.
She told the Press the housing association had been "working closely" with residents to improve the area. "One of the main issues was anti-social behaviour and damage to cars," she said.
"(Sherbrooke Road is) a through route and as people pass by they were wantonly damaging cars.
"It was recognised that better lighting would be helpful to resolve that."
She added, "A vegetable garden and trees have been planted and there has been talk of painting the gable ends and garage doors.
"Home Scotland are committed to do something in the Sherbrooke estate in partnership with Fife Council."
A spokeswoman for Home Scotland said, "Home Scotland is pleased to confirm that the gable ends of 12, 24, 168, 146, 144 and 122 Sherbrooke Road as well as 18 and 19 Esmonde Court in Rosyth will be partially painted white to reflect light back into the courtyard behind the homes to improve community safety.
From next year Fife Council will replace old sodium lighting with new columns and white lights.
"The yellow railings at the site of the former play area on the estate will be removed.
"Other proposals for improvements to the estate will go out to consultation with residents and will then be co-ordinated through the area committee for Edinburgh and Rosyth."
Meanwhile, Ms Hoey also told members of the community council that there had been a poor response from some shopkeepers in the area in efforts to reduce under-age alcohol sales.
She said the council was attempting to meet local traders to "limit proxy sales of alcohol" to youngsters.
She added, "It's disappointing.
"We've got some traders who are very interested and some that we have not seen.
"To be a success we must get all traders involved."
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daveyboy
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Apr 22, 14:56
Report commentmost of these traders are of ethnic origin and they get their alcohol from large warehouses ( again run by ethnics and i know that there is a large discount given out).
If you attended the local police meetings at the rosyth institute you would have found out that basically the police cant do diddly squat to under age drinkers and neds - the usual format is to take them back to their parents who are invariably of the same ilk and are commonly drunk on either drink of drugs.
Having more beat police will go some way to help but rosyth is a large mini city but still only gets normal policing--unless they have been given specific funding from the council to target these shops and hotspots- the government brought in the allowance of using children as decoys to buy drink with the police to follow up but have you heard of any shops being closed nooooooooope coz once their license is taken away they can resubmit under another of their friends /family within 24 hrs.
the council know this and are purposefully ignoring this because they dont want to be seen as anti ethnic.
take away the pubs and drink sellers and what have you got left -exactly zilch-a town living in the past badly needing regeneration
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Fed up in Fife
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Apr 22, 20:02
Report commentStop housing all the rejects that other councils no longer want to take responsibility for!
This might help in reducing crime and anti social behaviour within Rosyth.
Accuse me of nimbyism if you want, but I've experienced first hand the delights of driving near Sherbrooke Road at night and it's an experience I'm in no hurry to repeat.
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mhurren
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Apr 27, 18:45
Report commentThe Spar ,in hilton road ,shop is a nightmare,,every night the same gang of youths cause so much trouble,,why is there no CCTV there, I am sure these youths parents would not tolerate such behaviour on their doorstep,the female staff are at risk,
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