POLICE have served a closure notice at a house linked to drunken disorder.

Officers placed the notice on the door of the home in Nuttall Street, Ewood, Blackburn, yesterday after what a police spokesman described as ‘continuous complaints from the public about serious nuisance and disorder including fighting and drunkenness’.

The application states a closure order will be made today at Blackburn Magistrates Court against Samantha Whalley, 34, and Jake Whalley, 17.

If the order is granted it will become an offence for any person to remain in or enter the house for a set period of time which is still to be decided.

Anybody who does so could receive a six-month prison sentence, a £5,000 fine, or both.

The area community beat manager, PC Mark Perry, who led the operation, said the notice sent a clear message to the community that action was being taken against problem premises.

PC Perry said: “These notices are rare. This is the first in this particular area that I am aware of.

“But the residents along here have put up with this for far too long.

“It is a strong measure because at the end of the day we could be making somebody homeless.”

Residents told the Lancashire Telegraph that the house was associated with youths who would drink and swear outside their homes at night.

One neighbour, who did not wish to be named, said the police had definitely taken the right action.

She said: “I will be able to sleep at night when they have gone.”