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Why should the fact that people who live in areas run by local authority or housing trusts mean we should put up with things that our owner occupier counterparts on the whole do not.

The new apartments in the new highcross leicester in leicester's highcross quarter will not have piles of refuse outside or youths hanging around insecure filthy stairwells.

St Peters NM which now stands for St Peters Neighbourhood Monitoring is about addressing this disparity in appearance, quality of services and expectations by reporting on the issues here.

For that reason this site will often be reporting negative issues.

However where we can we shall look for the good points to report on also. As there are certainly quite a few of these.

Litter Louts of St Peters Leicester - Litter Lout 1

On October 5th this man sat down on a bench in a communal garden in St Peters Leicester to drink his can of lager and eat his box of fried chicken.

When he finished he showed total contempt for this community by throwing the box and the wipes under the bench and left a plastic carrier bag on top of the bench along with a plastic dip container and got up and walked away without a thought how its presence would further blight this community with litter or the fact that others would have to pick it up and indeed also pay to pick it up.

We would like to invite the readers of this website to help us identify him.

See also Litter Lout 2, and Litter Lout 2 Relaoded

Please download and use our new collection of Anti Littering Posters

Article Written by Albert Berer
Photography by Albert Berer
Date Written October 5th 2007
Date last Modified March 19th 2008
Status: Article in Progress


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Neighbourhood Monitoring - Litter Lout 1 Feedback

This was the first a Litter Lout for whom we created a video on our website for littering in St Peters.

Reports have come in from a number of you but we have yet to obtain concrete information that LCC Environmental Enforcement can act on.

The video of him has as of March 16th 2008 been viewed by 1181 people on Liveleak.com and 320 times on Youtube. Additionally the Litter Lout 1 slideshow has been viewed by over 100,000 visitors on this site since it was posted.

Posters based on the video web pages have also been put up on the notice boards throughout our neighbourhood.

These notice boards are in lifts and lobbies of the apartment buildings as well as outside the local neighbourhood housing office.

We continue to receive feedback from our website about this article on a daily basis from people through the UK and further afield (United States, India and New Zealand also for example.) Our approach is widely applauded with few isolated exceptions.

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This Website
This website is not council run. Neither is it affiliated with any political party.

This website is run for St Peters by St Peters Neighbourhood Management Board comprised of residents and people from other agencies who have a stake in St Peters.

This website will simply "tell it like it is" and reflect the community it represents. If you don't like what the website is showing you then the chances are neither do we but presenting rosy pictures of this community is a policy that has never served this community well in the past. Sweeping issues under the carpet and hoping to get through your working day as a service provider here in st peters simply will no longer work because while you are doing that, this website is presenting the stark reality.

It is felt that all too often Leicester City Council in its publications, journals and reports present a picture somewhat rosier than prevailing reality.

Where we find positive things to say about St Peters we will say it. Likewise where we consistently find rubbish, grime and disrepair it will be put on display for the whole world to see.

The days in which local authorities can present rosy pictures or carefully planned and routed tours to government ministers safe in the knowledge that the rubbish and grime typical of social housing stays concealed are long gone.

No longer can sub standards in social housing be delivered with impunity... safe in the knowledge that neighbourhood management misdeeds will not become known as we intend to compare our neighbourhood with the very best privately owned property and infrastructure management has to offer. We intend to set up a series of comparison websites with prominent and high profile residential developments. Our first are likely to be a comparison site with the Zenith Building here in Leicester (due autumn 2007) and the London Bridge tower in London (due 2011).

If the content of this website makes for uncomfortable viewing then support us to make St Peters a better place to live.

The negative aspects of St Peters reported in this website are things we would prefer not to broadcast in this way to the world. But that policy has never served St Peters well in the past.

It is hoped that this website will concentrate minds within city council and provide a reminder of an existence of life beyond the ring road and city centre with its multi billion pound regeneration schemes.

Article Written by Albert Berer
Photography by Albert Berer
Date Written March 15th 2008
Date last Modified March 15th 2008
Status: Article in Progress

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