Barnet Council intervenes to clean up 'secret slum'
Barnet Council is taking action to clean up a "secret slum" in its district, it has emerged.
According to the Times Series, the local authority has intervened to revamp several old garages off Refectory Lane in Edgware, which have been regularly inhabited by a group of around eight homeless, alcoholic people for the last two years.
Residents in the region complained to the council that the garages were infested with rats and therefore posed a considerable public health risk but, despite the body's efforts to get their owners to clean them up, the spaces have remained derelict.
Consequently, the authority's environmental health division has now decided to block off the premises in order to stop the level of squalor getting any worse.
Furthermore, Barnet Council is also set to make Edgware an alcohol exclusion zone to prevent people from drinking on the streets.
Sergeant Dan Reid of the local police observed: "With taking away the garages and introducing the drinking ban we are going to massively reduce crime in Edgware."
Posted by Martyn Glynn
Published 13th June, 2012
© 2012 Estates IT Limited
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