CLOSURE ORDER FOR HOUSE OF ROUND-THE-CLOCK TROUBLE

A closure order has been granted on a house which has seen suspected drug dealing, 19-hour-plus doorstep booze benders, violence and flashing - all just yards from a primary school.

Middlesbrough Council secured the order on the property at Cadogan Street at Teesside Magistrates Court through its Selective Landlord Licensing scheme for North Ormesby working with Cleveland Police, Thirteen Housing and residents.

The court heard how the tenant moved into the property in October 2020 but by April this year the street started seeing anti-social behaviour from large groups, sometimes adults, sometime youths.

Reports have been made of bottles and windows being smashed, footballs being fired at cars and property, smoking cannabis, drinking alcohol from 5am until past midnight and playing a boombox so loudly it would make neighbouring properties vibrate.

Other incidents emanating from the property include visitors dropping their trousers, climbing drainpipes and running along window awnings and clambering across chimney breasts.

Some visitors to the address have also been overheard talking about having guns and getting drugs.

Moments of violence have included one woman being spat on and shouted at with the words "f*** off pipehead" then two of the group tried to kick her as she crouched under a bush.

The authorities had given the tenant a number of warnings and dispersal orders for North Ormesby have been breached on Cadogan Street before the closure order was able to be secured. It will mean the tenant leaving the address, close to St Alphonsus Primary School, and it being boarded up for three months.

Middlesbrough Mayor Andy Preston said: "This has been trouble caused by a small group of very difficult people - the good news is that we've kicked them out and that will benefit everyone in the street and the wider area.

"We've got a brilliant school there too in a great part of town but this kind of bad behaviour on its doorstep doesn't do it any favours at all and can really drag it down.

"Anyone suffering from horrendous anti-social behaviour like this needs to know they can speak to us in confidence and we'll take action to get rid of the troublemakers."

In Middlesbroughthe Selective Landlord Licensing scheme currently runs in North Ormesby and part of Newport ward, working with residents and landlords to help improve standards of rented accommodation and to tackle anti-social behaviour.

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Press Notice 6695. 22/10/21

Issued by Andrew Pain, Senior Communications Officer on 01642 729503.

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Pn6695 Cadogan Street 1-3 - Picture shows a Police Community Support Officer applying a closure order at the address on Cadogan Street which has been at the centre of months of anti-social behaviour.