Drunks 'still creating trouble' at revamped park
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10 September 2008
PARK improvements have not stopped anti-social drunks scaring residents away, according to visitors.
People using the newly refurbished Ducketts Common, near Turnpike Lane, claim they have even seen children chased out of the park by intoxicated vagrants.
One user, who did not want to be named, said: "It's really not conducive to hanging around because there are people there with their cans of cider making it really unpleasant."
The concerns raised at a St Ann's and Harringay Area Assembly last week follow massive improvements to the six-acre space, including a new playground and basketball courts.
Councillor Nilgun Canver (Labour), of St Ann's ward and cabinet member for safer communities, said: "We have identified Ducketts Common as part of our street drinking ban but the Safer Neighbourhoods team is responsible for placing that restriction. I am confident that they are patrolling the area regularly."
A survey carried out last month suggested further improvements, including a new footpath from the Queen's Head pub to the playground and the revamp of the railings.
Margaret Fowler, of Salisbury Road, Wood Green, claimed she also saw groups drinking on the common, adding: "It must worry somebody and it certainly worried the person I was with at the time."
Sergeant Ian Pyles, of Harringay Safer Neighbourhoods team, said: "It's not that you can't drink on the streets it's that if you are drinking and causing trouble then we can take action.
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