Re: Southwark Councils Noise Team

[fredricketts]

For anyone interested in our Local Services.

It appears that among the cuts being made by Southwark Council is the Noise Team.

The noise team, is only one of the essential services, essential to today?s way of life, for the general public, they avoid individuals being abused and attacked, when they complain at 3.00am in the morning, because a neighbour in the next Road is having a Disco in there garden. No one can sleep, kids awake. You are supposed to be able to phone the noise team and they come and sort it, and in the past they have done a good job, but now because of cut backs they finish at 2.30am, after this time, you have to put up with it, until it finishes, phone the police, nothing to do with us, it?s the Council Noise Team you want, but there not there, nothing to do with us. What do you do apart from tear your hair out with frustration and lack of sleep? It makes you feel like taking matters in to your own hands.

There?s is no one there to up hold the Law. All wiped there hands of your right to a good night?s sleep. No wonder the Country is in the state that its in.

the Labour run council decided to dramatically reduce the noise team service.

They didn't need to make ?9M, which included reducing the noise team, of their cuts but they have chosen to pile up ?9M of extra unallocated reserves every year going forward.

The Council already has 80 million pounds in reserve, earning interest for what, none of the rates payers, suffering, now, from these savage cuts, are getting any benefit from this money. Use it to stop some of these cuts that are only affecting the not so well off.