Fed-up residents in Northcroft Lane are hoping West Berkshire Council will back their campaign to rid their area of boy racers.
Thirty residents have asked the council to install a gate to the pay and display car park next to the cricket pitch, CCTV in the car park, and a 20mph speed limit.
Residents complained about loud music, wheel spinning and fast driving along the normally quiet lane, but the council says there have been no accidents for more than two years.
‘Boy racers’ were a regular sight in Park Way until the area was cordoned off for redevelopment. Police had previously issued a dispersal order, and it’s thought this moved the problem to Northcroft.
West Berkshire Council will make a decision on Thursday.
This is not just a problem in Northcroft Lane but right across Newbury. What we need is the police to act and deal with this problem immediately. Has anybody thought of videoing it?
Dispersal orders only move the problem to somewhere else, it doesn't solve it. Which is what the policing should be trying to do.
I had to go up the late night chemist (Boots) a few weeks ago. I could not believe the amount of noise from across the car park, of cars revving their nuts off certainly with illegal exhausts, intermingled with boom box music as they attempted to outdo each other. At one stage the car with the noisiest exhaust who no doubt was the winner of the 'I'm the noisiest young driver in Newbury' competition hurled himself up and down the car park in lowest gear and highest revs for the benefit of the other numb nuts.
Policing this sort of anti social problem must be a chore that TVP know they can't win. They, the noisy young drivers, haven't really commited a crime so all they can do, as far as I can tell, is move them on. The only way to reduce the noise pollution of these 1100 Peugeots and citroens is that they are pulled by the police on the road and their insurance cancelled because of unauthorised modifications to the car, especially oversized exhausts.
The scooter owners that remove the baffles from their exhausts could also do with a tug. The one, in particular, who starts out at full revs somewhere on Turnpike, down Kiln Road and round the Walton Rd estate, still on full revs and usually quite late at night.
Thirty residents have asked the council to install a gate to the pay and display car park next to the cricket pitch, CCTV in the car park, and a 20mph speed limit.
West Berkshire Council will make a decision on Thursday.
Who is going to pay for this. Yes, that's right, all the ratepayers in the WBC catchment.
The solution would be for the thirty residents to put their hands in their pockets and fund a gate and take it in turns to lock and unlock it at start and end of day.
......They, the noisy young drivers, haven't really commited a crime so all they can do, as far as I can tell, is move them on.......
But they have committed an offence! One against what all Police Constables are charged with keeping - the Queen's peace! No reason why the Police, all of whom will have taken the oath, can't get them in front of the Magistrates to try the question.
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