Inspector Andy Prophet attended the West Area Committee, and quite a few ‘law and order’ issues were discussed.<\/p>\n
The good<\/em> news is that the police have been using metal-detecting ‘arches ‘ in Rayleigh pubs and have only found a very<\/em> low number of knives.<\/p>\n The first bit of bad news is that walls are still being knocked down in the London Road area of Rayleigh. Counciillors Chris Lumley, Joan Mockford and Jackie Dillnutt all spoke on this. Chris Lumley was particularly concerned that he hadn’t seen any of the special constables who were supposed to be concentrating on London Road – Inspector Prophet said he would make<\/em> sure that Chris would see one soon.<\/p>\n Town Councillor Cheryl Roe said that she’d received reports about a couple of ‘white vehicles’ outside Asda (the reports have come via parents of pupils at Sweyne Park School). Chris Black said that there was an application coming up soon from Asda for their wall around their storage area, which gave an opportunity for the council and Asda to discuss any security issues.<\/p>\n It was a frustrating meeting for many people there. The London Road criminal damage problem is still going on. Ron Oatham felt frustrated that after another 12 months County Highways aren’t much closer to installing a crossing at the Rawreth Lane\/ Downhall Park Way Junction. Some residents were frustrated that they didn’t get the answers they wanted. Other residents were unhappy that the Rawreth land under threat of development is owned by the family of a Rochford DC Conservative Councillor.<\/p>\n And did anyone else feel frustrated that one or two councillors could barely stay awake at times? <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Inspector Andy Prophet attended the West Area Committee, and quite a few ‘law and order’ issues were discussed. The good news is that the police have been using metal-detecting ‘arches ‘ in Rayleigh pubs and have only found a very low number of knives. The first bit of bad news is that walls are still […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[24,19,41,18],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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