Inner city tales has been set up to raise awareness through poetry, images and video of the serious issues effecting people living in the inner city communities of St Paul’s and Easton Bristol, as well as other communities that suffer from the same negligence and abuse from the authorities.
As well as Bristol other major cities in England have communities like St Paul's and Easton that have been designated as unoficial tolerance zones for Prostitution, Drugs and Associated crime.
As these are unoficial tolerance zones the authorities deny responsibility.
As you will read and see there are things happening that no one in modern day Britain should have to witness or tolerate, least of all children.
What do you see when you walk through your community?
I wonder if its the same as we see day in, day out.
Prostitutes soliciting outside Primary Schools and Nurseries.
Drug Addicts loitering leaving their used needles places were Children play.
Paedophiles housed in an Approved Premises (Bail Hostel) that over looks a Nursery playground.
Systematic deconstruction of communities
The question i would like you, to ask yourself is WHY ?
After you have had a look, post us a comment to let us know what you think
Image below shows a prostitute being supplied drugs outside Millpond Primary School, Easton, Bristol.
The sign directly above their heads reads Millpond Primary School while the one to the right reads Police Warning Kerb crawlers will be arrested and has been in place since 2002.
Image below shows a prostitute soliciting under School warning sign as children walk home from School.
Due to the tolerance shown by Avon and Somerset Police and Bristol City Council towards Prostitution in Easton associated crime is able to flourish within the community.
The most common crime associated with prostitution is drug abuse. Due to many, if not all the prostitutes being addicted to Crack Cocaine or Heroin as well as their partners or pimp that they support, the amount of debris left within the community from their drug use is alarming.
Image below shows a young girl injecting herself with heroin in the Kango building. The Kango building is located 25 metres from St Paul's Day Nursery
Image below shows drug taking tools that have been discarded after use in the Kango building.
Further to this the situation is made worse in St Pauls by the Government housing Paedophiles at Brigstocke Road Approved Premises (Bail Hostel).
Brigstocke Road Approved Premises is a high risk approved probation hostel which has 28 places and houses paedophiles
Jumoke Nursery has approx. 30 places for children aged 2-5 years old.
The back rooms of Brigstocke Road Approved Premises look directly into the Nurseries playground
Image below shows the view from a room at the back of Brigstocke Road Approved Premises into the nursery playground
Image below shows the front of 1 of the 5 adjoining properties that make up Brigstocke Road Approved Premises.
Image below shows Brigstocke Road Action Group demonstrating against Schedule 1 Sex Offenders which includes Paedophiles being housed at Brigstocke Road Approved Premises.
To highlight the cause further with this Labour Government who promised to stop admitting Paedophiles to all approved premises within such close Proximity to areas where children play or are taught - there are 16 schools and nurseries which are within 1/2 a mile of Brigstocke Road approved premises -
Jumoke Day Nursery Directly behind
Candle Play-group Next door
Andalusia Academy
Bristol Gateway School
Cabot Primary School
Colston Primary School
Colston Girls' School
Cotham School
Easton Church of England Primary School
Millpond Primary School
Rosemary Nursery School and Family unit
St Barnabas C of E Primary School
St James & St Agnes Nursery School
St Michael on the Mount Church of England Primary School
St Paul’s Day Nursery
St Werburgh's Primary School
All Distances are taken from Ofsted web site. www.ofsted.gov.uk/report
HOW CAN THIS BE RIGHT???
After a successful campaign and due to the criminal negligence of Avon and Somerset Probation Service, Brigstocke Road Approved Premises will no longer house Paedophiles.
I would like to thank every body on behalf of St Paul's for their support.
The latest abuse by the authorities has been the seizure of social housing properties in St Paul's.
This has come in the form of the authorities failing to maintain properties and protect tenants from anti social behavior. Which has resulted in many people moving away from St Paul's and when their property has become empty the housing authorities leave them empty.
Over the last 10 years St Paul's has lost many members of the community due to the lack of care by Avon and Somerset Police, Bristol City Council, Bristol Churches Housing Association and Knightstone Housing Association.
Through out this time many of the properties became drug dens and squats. This increased the fear felt within the community and more people moved away.
The reason for clearing St Paul's of as much social housing as possible is the Broadmead development scheme. This is a £500 million redevelopment of a part of Bristol's City Centre which boarders St Paul's. Attached to this is another £300 million development which will come into the heart of St Paul's.
Bristol City Council and the Housing Association's have plenty to gain in relocating the community.
Some people were offered sums of up to £4000 to move out of St Paul's as they had not been scared into moving.
Some of these people were registered drug addicts.
What do you think they spent their money on ?
One member of the community who had lived in St Paul's for over 30 year's and suffered with mental health problems had a member of Knighstone Housing Association get him to sign away his tenancy so they could sell his house while he was sectioned.
When he comes out he will of lost the home he has known for the best part of his life.
How can they justify their actions?
These are just a few of the issues facing the communities of St Paul's and Easton, Bristol.
Your comments will be appreciated
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