20 February (Part 3) - Mud and blood
Not being as familiar as perhaps I should be with the names of roads that back on to Hill View, I didn’t immediately make the connection between Sergeant Young’s comment on Twitter and the floods in Marina Drive.
But
then I remembered seeing Peters Close while finding my way to Marina Drive last
week. My A-Z confirmed that I would have passed it just before turning into
Marina Drive and it too backs on to the Hill View swamp.
So now the people living in that area have to contend with security issues as
well as the dirt and structural damage.
Only last week I heard Chief Superintendent Peter Ayling say that the council’s
decision to leave parks unlocked at night was
cause for concern. Now the
police have another one.
It took an email from a reader to wake me up and inform me just how big an impact
Bexley council’s decision has made on community safety in that area.
Probably I can’t do better than reproduce the reader’s email.
Thanks for the update post about Hill View.
I have some disturbing news about that site.
Our houses back onto the Hill View “mud swamp” and yesterday evening the Police knocked on my
door to say my next door neighbour had been burgled that afternoon!
The officer said the burglar had walked through the Hill View building site, climbed over
the fence and gained access into the garden.
He broke into the house and trashed it while helping himself to valuable items. The police
were surprised that the site security did not see them.
I checked today to be told “There is NO security, maybe in two months time”.
Oh don't worry about us then! Surely security is a must at these sites for this very reason!
We didn't get much sleep wondering if anyone else is walking around over there.
I'll need to put barbed wire along my fence until this is resolved.
It’s to be hoped that Sergeant Young’s evidence will prove good enough to secure a prosecution. If there is any repeat it’s probable there will be plenty more muddy footprints.