ROUGH SLEEPERS - FRYENT COUNTRY PARK - UPDATE

Brent Council officers have continued to monitor our parks and open spaces to deter "camping" and prevent the nuisance that this creates.  Earlier this week we received a report reproduced below on the outcome of this joint operation.

"Five Brent parks were checked last week for tents and temporary structure, those people occupying them and responsible for rough sleeping-related nuisance and anti-social behaviour. On this occasion only a handful of shelters were found in the parks, all of which were removed.

The operation was part off Brent Council's ongoing programme of activity to address the significant escalation over the summer months of rough sleeping economic migrants erecting tents and shelters in its parks and the anti-social impacts of this.

No tents or shelters were found in Woodcock Park or Gladstone Park and only a single shelter each in Roe Green and Fryent Country Parks. Four shelters were found in The Welsh Harp. This is considerably lower than the numbers found in operations conducted in the same parks on the nights of the 11-13 September 2014."

The operation is a joined-up effort between Brent Council, the Police, UK Borders Agency, Veolia and Ashford Place, Brent's leading charity for rough sleepers. Fryent Councillors would like to pass on our thanks to those responsible on behalf of local residents.

Fryent Councillors

ROUGH SLEEPERS - FRYENT COUNTRY PARK - UPDATE

Brent Council officers supported by the Police and Veolia, the new parks contractor, carried out a successful operation to remove rough sleepers from Fryent Country Park. The operation yesterday followed a walkabout with Fryent Councillor George Crane and Barry Gardiner MP and Fryent local residents on Sunday morning.

The team moved 4 shelters/encampments and cleared rubbish from the sites.



Local residents, who regularly walk in the park, are helping the Council identify new camps so wecan take swift action to get them removed.

New camps can be reported here:    http://brent.gov.uk/services-for-residents/sport,-leisure-and-parks/parks/report-rough-sleeping-in-our-parks/