Community Pay Back Working in Our Area

People found guilty of crimes spent a total of 280,750 hours doing community service work to pay back for their crimes on Merseyside, according to the latest just-published annual police report. Instead of fines or other measures, courts  sentence offenders to do community work, such as removing graffiti, picking up litter and other worthwhile neighbourhood clean-up and improvement projects.

In Sefton, the Community Pay Back team visit Southport on a regular basis - if you know of anywhere around you that has litter or graffiti or that could do with a tidy up please let your Lib Dem Team know by emailing sue@bluefountain.com so that we can get pass it on to the Community Payback.

Graffiti removed in Elswick Road

Your Liberal Democrat Councillors have been working with the police, the Community Safety and the Environmental Protection teams from Sefton Council over the summer to get things done in the Elswick Road area.

Cllr Sue McGuire is pictured with
an area cleaned of graffiti

Your Lib Dem Councillors working with the Police have also had the Community Payback Team working to remove graffiti in the area. This has proved very successful and will be something that other areas will be making use of.


So far the Saturday Skips have been present on three occasions to allow residents to get rid of any rubbish too large for the grey wheelie bins. The hope is that the Community Skips will also reduced the amount of fly-tipping in the area.


Finally Councillor Sue McGuire met with the Street Cleansing Team to ask then to make a special effort to "spring clean" the area taking extra care to clean the walkways and this work will continue.

As Councillor Sue McGuire explained

"This has been a great example of different departments and agencies working together to make improvements to an area."

In addition to this, Marshside School will be installing an addition CCTV camera which will provide coverage of the car park adjacent to the school. This car park has been the site of anti-social behaviour and graffiti in the past and it is hoped that this CCTV will put a stop to these activities. Your Lib Dem councillors have provided 50% of the funding for this camera from their ward budget.

Councillor Carmel Preston added

"If anybody thinks that their area would benefit from this kind of joined up approach then please do get in touch with us."

Tackling Graffiti at Coyford Drive

Councillor Sue McGuire pictured with the graffiti on the sub station at the walkway on Coyford Drive.

As Sue explained

"Graffiti seems to be on the increase and so its vital that we have a system which deals with this as quickly and effectively as possible."

Councillor Preston added

"We have asked the Community Payback Team to remove this graffiti as soon as they can. This service has already removed graffiti in the Elswick Road area."