engagement with travellers during unlawful incursions. On these occasions, the Team have ensured that Havering’s parks continue to be safe for the public to use, reducing serious littering, deterring organised fly tipping and other anti-social behaviour, ensuring their stay is kept to a minimum timescale, in close liaison with the Havering Council Planning Team.
One of Parks Protection Service off-road bikes used for rapid response
Lodge Farm Park, one of our busiest, smaller parks it is situated only a ‘stone’s throw’ away from Romford Town Centre. It remains one of the ‘green spaces of choice’, for generally law abiding, peaceful groups of teenagers and young people, who are locally known as the ‘Goths’. Unfortunately, their eccentric hair colours and body piercings etc. can sometimes cause initial concern to older adults to visitors who do not realise that they merely gather in this park ‘as a place of safety’.
Youths using the park
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