Spalding councillor calls for ‘circle of death’ to revamped in Hall Place and for authorities to get tough on anti-social behaviour
Councillors have called for the ‘circle of death’ to be revamped in Spalding town centre along with getting tough on anti-social behaviour in the area.
South Holland District Council has launched a consultation exercise on the circular seating and wooden planters around Hall Place in Spalding.
The strategy for Hall Place will focus on seating, planters and decluttering the area, Matthew Hogan, assistant director for strategic growth and development told the Spalding town Forum meeting last week.
Spalding councillor James Le Sage called for action to be taken on the anti-social behaviour problems which have been reported by traders in recent weeks.
said: “The seating area we currently have is referred to as the circle of death, it needs revamping, and vastly improved seating. On top of that we need to deal with anti-social behaviour. We need to make sure we are coming down on that.
“Years ago I used to work for a university and they said that if you don’t stop the low level stuff, you will have bigger stuff cropping up.
“Bigger stuff is cropping up and we need to come down on it fairly hard. Kids cycling through town. They cycle past a PCSO and warden and they don’t get stopped.”
He also called for a town centre policy to look at vinyl stickers on shops.
Forum chairman Coun Rob Gibson suggested asking South Holland police to tackle the anti-social behaviour in the town centre as one of their three monthly priorities.
He said: “I understand that it will take resource away from something else put to clamp down on the cyclists whizzing through town, invalid scooters running into people and really serious anti-social behaviour, drugs and alcohol. “
Deputy council leader Gary Taylor called for people to report incidents to police and the council in order to deal with the problems.
He said: “We need a zero tolerance to anti-social behaviour. Lets not accept it, let’s deal with it.”
