Calling Telford’s Yard

Is anyone reading this from Telford’s Yard? It would be useful to have a contact in Telford’s Yard who would be willing to distribute flyers to the south-facing flats most likely to be suffering from the noise and anti-social behaviour problem.

Contact penningtonnoise@yahoo.com

Someone is interested in helping us.

Excellent email this morning from Councillor Emma Jones. I had asked for advice on the most effective way of reporting the problems we have at weekends.

‘It is a good idea for residents to report to the Safer Neighbourhood Team and anti-social behaviour unit of the Council. The Safer Neighbourhood Team's email is StKatharines.Wapping.SNT@met.police.uk

and their numbers are 020 8721 2854 and 07887 821816.

The ASB unit can be contacted on 0800 917 5918 or you can report using this online form https://webforms.towerhamlets.gov.uk/AF3/an/default.aspx/RenderForm/?F.Name=Cd8QMulALNE.

The unit can also be written to at the Town Hall, Mulberry Place (AH), PO Box 55739, 5, Clove Crescent, London, UK, E14 2BG.

The priority areas with most police patrols and funding depend partly upon reports to the SNT and ASB unit, so it is a good idea for residents to do this. I am on the police priority setting panel and so I let them know what residents tell me too.’

There you have it: to influence police patrols and priorities we need to contact the SNT and ASB unit. It's great to know that a councillor who is aware of our problems sits on the police priority setting panel.

Mango's - Pennington Street - 4 Oct - 03:00

Some excellent photographic evidence here from a local resident and blog contributor who adds -

'I thought it pertinent to mention that the "member of staff employed some distance from the premises to encourage the exiting patrons to leave the area quickly and quietly" was nowhere to be seen during these photographs. Nor were they around in the two hours following the police's departure, quite surprising given the events that had just occurred. During those two hours patrons were back to their usual singing, dancing, screaming, smashing glass and playing their car stereos loudly.'

Letter from LBTH Environmental Health

I am grateful to Councillor Emma Jones for forwarding a complaint on to the department of Environmental Health at LBTH. This morning, Saturday 4 October, I received a copy of a letter to Councillor Jones from Clive Shipman, Assistant Head of Service at, LBTH Communities Localities & Culture.


If, like me, you did not get back to sleep until about 04:30 this morning I would strongly advise a few deep breaths before you approach the letter; 'Mango's Nightclub...have a member of staff employed some distance from the premises to encourage the exiting patrons to leave the area quickly and quietly. This is more than we could require of the management and shows willingness on their part to address the problem.'

Funnily enough, I am also willing to address the problem.

If anyone has any difficulty in clicking through to the scans contact penningtonnoise@yahoo.com. and I'll send the images directly.

Saturday 4 October, 03:30 am

Traditional folk dancing in Pennington Street.

Strangely, there is no sign of, ' a member of (Mango's) staff employed some distance from the premises to encourage the exiting patrons to leave the area quickly and quietly'.



If anyone got any number plates please send them through to penningtonnoise@yahoo.com.

Evidence

The weekend approaches. If anyone sees any nonsense going on and if it is possible to take a photograph without putting yourself at risk then please do.

A lot of the disturbance seems to take place around cars. Car number plates, and if possible, the make and model of the vehicle could be very useful in the fight against this harassment. The Council's Community Safety department has asked for any number plates so that they can track the vehicle owners.

As always, try to call the police if you are disturbed by noise. Calls to the police help to build up a record of the problem.

Photographs of the litter and debris on mornings after club nights would also be very helpful.

Any digital images or car details can be sent in confidence to penningtonnoise@yahoo.com. Alternatively, you can send a brief description of the incident and the vehicle number plate to Daniel.Oyebanjo@towerhamlets.gov.uk.

If the harassment continues and if reasonable efforts to solve the problem by other means fail, then a challenge to Mango’s license will be the next course of action. All of the evidence accumulated on here will then strengthen the case against Mango’s.

History – Copyright

Some of the more recent arrivals to the Pennington Street area may not be aware that the previous club on Mango’s site was also the cause of considerable nuisance to residents. Clients of ‘Copyright’, as it was then known, would tend to congregate around Breezers Court :

‘The noise is worst by Breezers Court because they congregate up at this end of the road. They move their cars from outside the club up to this end of the road...Additionally violence or arguments seem to kick off around Breezers Hill – and there is a lot of shouting, screams etc. ...but the club should be taking precautions to ensure the crowd is managed effectively. There was a serious assault outside Telford ’s Yard a couple of months back, which involved clubbers too.’

Sound familiar? This is taken from an email from a local resident dated September 2006. I am very grateful to my neighbours for taking the time to pass on this and other relevant emails. The Mango’s site has been a cause of complaint for some time.