Evidence submitted for town booze ban
EVIDENCE supporting a ban for drinking leading to anti-social behaviour in Spalding town centre has been submitted to South Holland District Council.
Spalding Police gathered numerous coupons and letters from people in the town following a campaign in the Spalding Guardian which appealed for proof that drinking in public has become a problem.
Officers want to secure a Designated Public Place Order (DPPO), which will give them powers to confiscate alcohol within a set zone.
Problems listed included urinating in the streets, criminal damage and feeling intimidated.
At Monday’s Spalding Town Centre Partnership meeting Pc Paul Smith said: “The evidence they asked us to gather has been submitted and the council will make a decision sooner rather than later.
“It is now just a case of seeing if the evidence fulfills the criteria.”
The bid to obtain the DPPO started in October when residents and police became aware of increasing instances of groups gathering and drinking in Hall Place and Double Street.
The DPPO, if approved, will cover a small area including the town centre and Holland Market to avoid problems encountered in Boston, where police say they are too stretched to monitor the alcohol control zone.
The evidence has been put before the council’s head of community and neighbourhood services Glenn Chapman and stronger communities portfolio holders Coun Gary Taylor, who agreed there will be a consultation process.
All the information will then go back to them for the final decision.
At a recent council meeting Coun Angela Newton said a summer fair organised by the Hospital League of Friends had been sullied by drinkers sat nearby.
She said: “People were sitting on the seats all afternoon drinking and the language wasn’t very good, despite the fact we had children around.
“Shops were selling cans of beer and these people were just dropping them, and the litter was really bad.”
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