REGARDING your front page story about refugees being attacked (LET, August 11), and in reply to Gwyneth Sarkar of Twin Valley Homes (Letters, August 6), who at least took the trouble to reply to my earlier remarks, Coun Edward Harrison, who lives among us in Livesey, is right in what he states.

Anyone who does not live here cannot really know what some of the conditions that some people live in are really like. Coun Harrison knows exactly.

When asylum seekers were put in the estate's maisonettes, they didn't know that some of their neighbours use their flats, etc, as drinking dens and, when fuelled up with drink cause trouble and smash up the properties.

It doesn't matter to them anyway -- they pay nothing for the property, so it means nothing to them; just somewhere to go and get tanked up.

After smashing up the property, they just move on. They'll soon have somewhere to drink again. A mate will apply for a property, be given a key and the whole sorry saga starts again.

And so it goes on, ad infinitum.

A lot of people bought their property when this was a nice area. In fact, some parts of Livesey estate are still very nice and whether people choose to buy or rent it's just a different way to them of managing their money.

Gwyneth Sarkar says what is going to be done over 10 years. Well, some of the older ones may not have 10 years left to wait for a quieter life. Do something now.

Nothing has been done since the stabbing incident apart from a very visible police presence, but even that has been watered down now.

There is still noise from the drinking dens; still incidents most weekends. And if the drinkers move on, it's no hardship for them because most of them have nothing to move apart from their packs of alcohol.

Once again, it is the good tenants and owner-occupiers who are left trying to hold the very fabric of the estate together. Do something now.

All the councillors for Meadowhead Ward, regardless of their political persuasions, should get together and try to do something now. After all, they are the ones we elected to have our interests at heart.

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