Post by Joe K on Aug 3, 2013 13:38:04 GMT
I need to explain something here, because Twitter sucks for providing details.
I was asked by a neighbour, about two years ago now, if I would look into the mechanics of setting up a neighbourhood watch for Jersey Rd, as there had been some anti-social behaviour, notably individuals starting fires on people's doorsteps. I was, at the time, the secretary of the Barton & Tredworth Neighbourhood Partnership, so it seemed like something I was obliged to do, though I knew, and said, that I wouldn't have time to be in this group myself. I didn't fully appreciate at the time that the partnership's chairman, Tony Ward, and various other individuals, were working furiously to give me more free time in the deep shadows (that is, without any effort to apprise me of any initial concerns in accordance with the rules,, but rather trying to build up what they thought of as a 'slam-dunk' case against me). The neighbour also made it clear that she couldn't be part of the scheme herself.
So I took this request for information to our local police, and the only response, from one Lynn Northfield, was requests for the details of my neighbour, despite my repeated insistences that she did not want to be a member herself. Eventually, I received a vague email about a meeting. Vague in that it said that my neighbour had been invited to a meeting to discuss the issue, but without saying when the meeting was or where. I took the hint that I was not invited to this meeting, which suited me, as I'd made it clear that I wasn't able to be involved.
The meeting, it turned out in hindsight (that is, a year later) was a public meeting, held at Tredworth Junior School on January [19th?] of 2011, to invite residents all over Barton & Tredworth to participate in/ start up Neighbourhood Watches. I saw no promotions for this meeting, and when I asked the co-ordinator for our region, Alan Hardacre, who had eventually informed me of it's taking place, after I asked for details of the meeting my neighbour had been asked to attend, he couldn't tell me of any promotion. He did say that people had been invited to talk to him after the meeting, and no-one from Jersey Rd had done so. I have to assume from this that my neighbour either didn't attend or didn't speak.
This is not surprising, after both she and I had made her position clear. So we don't have a watch on Jersey Rd, while cars are vandalised, because Lyn Northfield was so desperate to communicate with anyone except me about a watch, and nobody was prepared to advertise the event properly.
This is why I'm so anxious to know how anyone who is involved with a neighbourhood watch became so. Through that meeting, or some other way?
And on the same note, is anyone interested in residents being better informed about such events, through the provision of a community noticeboard, or two (one for High St, one for Barton St)? I suggested this to the partnership over a year ago, and to Gloucester City Homes' Meet The People event in May (also at TJS). Now it seems Tony Ward (one of the people I told) is claiming this as his own initiative. I really don't care who takes credit, however falsely, as long a it happens, and important information doesn't keep passing residents by.
I was asked by a neighbour, about two years ago now, if I would look into the mechanics of setting up a neighbourhood watch for Jersey Rd, as there had been some anti-social behaviour, notably individuals starting fires on people's doorsteps. I was, at the time, the secretary of the Barton & Tredworth Neighbourhood Partnership, so it seemed like something I was obliged to do, though I knew, and said, that I wouldn't have time to be in this group myself. I didn't fully appreciate at the time that the partnership's chairman, Tony Ward, and various other individuals, were working furiously to give me more free time in the deep shadows (that is, without any effort to apprise me of any initial concerns in accordance with the rules,, but rather trying to build up what they thought of as a 'slam-dunk' case against me). The neighbour also made it clear that she couldn't be part of the scheme herself.
So I took this request for information to our local police, and the only response, from one Lynn Northfield, was requests for the details of my neighbour, despite my repeated insistences that she did not want to be a member herself. Eventually, I received a vague email about a meeting. Vague in that it said that my neighbour had been invited to a meeting to discuss the issue, but without saying when the meeting was or where. I took the hint that I was not invited to this meeting, which suited me, as I'd made it clear that I wasn't able to be involved.
The meeting, it turned out in hindsight (that is, a year later) was a public meeting, held at Tredworth Junior School on January [19th?] of 2011, to invite residents all over Barton & Tredworth to participate in/ start up Neighbourhood Watches. I saw no promotions for this meeting, and when I asked the co-ordinator for our region, Alan Hardacre, who had eventually informed me of it's taking place, after I asked for details of the meeting my neighbour had been asked to attend, he couldn't tell me of any promotion. He did say that people had been invited to talk to him after the meeting, and no-one from Jersey Rd had done so. I have to assume from this that my neighbour either didn't attend or didn't speak.
This is not surprising, after both she and I had made her position clear. So we don't have a watch on Jersey Rd, while cars are vandalised, because Lyn Northfield was so desperate to communicate with anyone except me about a watch, and nobody was prepared to advertise the event properly.
This is why I'm so anxious to know how anyone who is involved with a neighbourhood watch became so. Through that meeting, or some other way?
And on the same note, is anyone interested in residents being better informed about such events, through the provision of a community noticeboard, or two (one for High St, one for Barton St)? I suggested this to the partnership over a year ago, and to Gloucester City Homes' Meet The People event in May (also at TJS). Now it seems Tony Ward (one of the people I told) is claiming this as his own initiative. I really don't care who takes credit, however falsely, as long a it happens, and important information doesn't keep passing residents by.
