Mayfield Garages: A sad update

So I spoke too soon concerning the Garages.

Yesterday a neighbour spotted a huge truck dumping building waste in the garages, so it appears that awareness of the site as a great place to dispose of unwanted rubbish is spreading. In addition a gang of youths – the usual suspects – have returned, diligently wrecking the boarded up garages once again.

We need the council to close off the entire site and ideally demolish all the garages
We need the local police to patrol the area and be willing to prosecute fly-tippers.
We need the site developed PDQ

None of this is rocket science. But what to do?

Well, in the local press on March 10th there was a little article titled “Yob Culture will not be tolerated.” This was a piece promoting Enfield council’s new enforcement supremo.

Apparently more than 100 people have been prosecuted for fly-tipping, posting and car dumping and the Enviro unit is also purported to be cracking down on general anti-social behaviour. The assistant director for environmental health and regulation is one Mike Hainge who was quoted as saying “Enfield council is well placed to continue its fight against yob culture and we’ve achived some notable successes in the past few months, we are definitely on the right track and will continue to work with the police to protect the majority of decent folk from a selfish, anti-social minority”.

Sounds great. Lets give him a call.

NOTE: The way to do it is I think to contact the Environmental Crime unit (020 8379 1000), who then forward it on to the Enforcement unit.
Details of the Environmental Crime Unit can be found here
Details of the Enforcement unit can be found here