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Poo in the park

I'm writing after a particularly horrid experience in Acton Park this morning. My dog emerged from some bushes covered in human excrement. Dogs will be dogs and usually it's fox-derived but there's something particularly foul about the human variety. It was there, along with increasing levels of rubbish, because a large number of jobless eastern Europeans spend all day and, quite possibly all night, drinking in the park and heading for the bushes when they need a crap. In itself, this might seem like a trivially minor local matter, but it highlights a major issue regarding membership of the EU and our obligation to accept immigration of unskilled people who can come and sponge off the state to drink all day and desecrate our public spaces. EU membership costs us a fortune with little benefit and these workshy bums are quite literally turning Acton into Shitsville at our expense.

Christopher Hughes ● 5461d10 Comments

It's disgusting and one that seems to be occuring reguarly with dog walkers.

Sarah Gates ● 5461d

I mentioned at last nights ward forum, that the trees planted by 2 Creswick Rd within the boundary of Springfield Gardens were being used for the same purpose.  Don't think the council are that bothered.  Not a pleasant sight to see somebody with their trousers around their ankles squatting behind the trees and bushes.

Nicola Howard ● 5461d

Where in the park is this, I have seen plenty use the trees inside the station as a urinal, many jump of the train and head straight over, maybe toilets at acton station would help!Also the wasted area, entrance to the building site used to popular with the local down and outs, so wouldn't surprise me if they had moved location. I can't comment on eastern european as I haven't witnessed this, I have witnessed at least two others, one our very own.

Guy Campbell ● 5461d

Christopher,email customerservices@ealing.gov.uk asking that the parks people cut back the bushes so that people doing anything of this sort can be seen.Then if they are seen, presumably it could be considered to be anti-social behaviour - see below:'Anti-social behaviour orders (ASBOs) are civil orders to protect the public from behaviour that causes or is likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress. An order contains conditions prohibiting an individual from carrying out specific anti-social acts or (for example) from entering defined areas. The orders are not criminal sanctions and are not intended to punish the individual. They are designed to be preventative, not punitive'Which can be dealt with by the local PSCO's.Could it be the same people that drink on the Mount outside Morrisons?

Dee Cook ● 5461d

The almost total lack of public conveniences must surely take some of the blame. If you gotta go, you gotta go and there don't seem to be any loos anywhere near Acton Park.

Susan Kelly ● 5460d

Yes there is a lack of public conveniences, but we all know that and do we crap in the bushes?  Are these people 4 years old and can't anticipate when they might need to go?  There's a McDonald's on the high street, walk down there and have a McShit!There are no excuses unless they're incontinet in which case go to the doctors and get a colostomy bag on the NHS ... all for free!

Sarah Harris ● 5460d

There is an automatic loo on the edge of the park on the Uxbridge Road side just the other side of the pond.No excuses please.

Dee Cook ● 5460d

I found a deposit in my front garden in Berrymead Gardens one Sunday Morning. My cat has better manners compared to whoever left me the present.

Tony Crumpton ● 5460d

....a sad decline in good manners, politeness and respect for others.....its all over the place.  My bug bear at the moment are children who rush for the seats on the underground, totally unaware that it would be good manners to offer their seats to those less able to stand.

Dee Cook ● 5460d

Now there's a link!the park problem has been there for years - generally around the rhodedendron patch in the middle. I think there are people sleeping in the bushes overnight - or have been. Started several years ago and I had thought , because unmentioned for ages, that maybe it had stopped.No such luck

Sara Nathan ● 5460d