The Power of Hello

The Tower Hamlets Neighbourhood Watch Association has not at any point been asked to get involved with problems to do with the safety concerns in this tower block. A recent statement from Apsana Begum on Facebook highlights that residents’ insurance premiums quadrupled despite a lack of fire safety provision in the block. As an Association […]

Social media cover watches

Cover Watches are area/community based Watches that use social media to communicate across a large number of residents that would normally overwhelm a co-ordinator of a street-Watch. We want to adapt this scheme because it seems very useful. In one area of Surrey, one third of all residents have signed up to cover schemes. This […]

Neighbourhood, Crime and ASB board

is a new board created within Tower Hamlets Council, and separately run from the Safer Neighbourhood Board. Tonight, during the Cabinet meeting council discussed the introduction of the borough-wide Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) to deal with the possession and use of psychoactive substances (e.g. nitrous oxide) and associated Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB). Notices will be […]