Two of us attended the public SNAP meeting held at the Open Academy last night. This was a forum for residents of North/East Norwich to get in touch with the police and the council. Thanks to GC's oratory skills we won a vote of 'priority' (albeit in a very awkward way) for action towards creating a community garden behind the Heathgate Estate, near the Ranger's House. I was surprised this won over action to be taken against local cases of drug dealing, anti-social behaviour and blatant prostitution - it was a very emotive meeting and I really feel for those people that have such terror to put up with in their neighbourhoods.
However, we don't quite know what this 'victory' means, but there is a lot to do: initially litter picking (avoiding hypodermic syringes!) and we want to get together a workforce to get some gardening done. The aim is to improve the feeling among residents and I believe the positivity of the idea made it stand out over things that the police should be dealing with anyway.
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