Danger to School Children As Discarded Needles Litter School Shortcut!

Wolverhampton City Council is facing urgent demands by local people living on Ashmore Park to take action and control access onto a garage site located in Whiston Avenue Ashmore Park.

Wolverhampton City Council is facing urgent demands by local people living on Ashmore Park to take action and control access onto a garage site located in Whiston Avenue Ashmore Park.

Residents today called Wednesfield North Labour Party to support their wish to control access to the site; citing the dangers to young children who are being exposed to the drugs paraphernalia that is littered around the site.

Labour Party candidates Rita Potter and Derek Wollam have joined their cause supporting the call for gates to be erected on the site.

Both are Labour Party Candidates in the forthcoming local elections, and in a statement made through Wednesfield North Labour Party said today " Local Labour Party Officials visited the garage site on Sunday evening; at the request of residents to see the problem first hand. They were shocked to see multiple phials and used needles scattered around the site. Also there were discarded lighters and silver foil and other drugs paraphernalia that points to the site being used regularly for drug taking.

Rita Potter said " Derek and I will be meeting residents to discuss with them how we can together put enough pressure on the City Council to erect the same sort of gated access on this site as they have in other similar garage sites on Ashmore Park.This request is one that the City must support to reduce the risk of injury to our children.We all know that discarded needles are dirty and harbour all sorts of vile diseases. First and formost there must be an emergency clean up of the garage site immediately"

Derek Wollam in supporting this action, "called on the local police chiefs to also investigate the garage site and do all that they can to reduce the dangers to young children who use the site as a short cut to the local primary school in Ryan Avenue. All the agencies must come together with the local residents to first clean the site then tackle the people that are making the garage site unsafe."

Wednesfield North Labour Party have emailed the school warning them of the dangers to children of discarded needles in the long grass in the car park which acts as a short cut for pupil's and parents, asking the school to urgently make the parents aware of the risk; and they have also emailed the City Council and Wednesfield Police asking them to also react with haste to tackle the problem.