Nathan Flynn at the Andover Estate

• SINCE Tribune reporter Anna Lamche came to see what residents on the Andover Estate are dealing with (‘Lack of funding is seeing drug users run riot’, August 19), we have not seen any improvements.

Residents are still suffering from drug paraphernalia left on the doorsteps. I note Islington Council’s and local councillors’ failure to contact me; this shows that they really do not care about the area and residents and the mental health of people who have to live with this stress.

Since the Tribune article I still see drug users on stairwells, doorsteps, and bin areas. And the things I have seen have scared me. I am 23 and I should not be seeing things like this.

I am not the only one who has experienced this but I am the one speaking up for more to be done and actions to be taken to stop or reduce this from taking place on a growing family housing estate.

I have had residents come up to me after the Tribune report was published asking if I could help as they have experienced this issue and have had blood on their doorsteps where the heavy drug users have bled outside their home. Why is it?

Councillors should be going round seeing and hearing this for themselves, as we have elected them. Children on the estate are playing on streets and this happen because one of the main safe play areas has been gated off to stop children playing on it. Work does need to be done to it, but nothing has been done yet.

Gates don’t work, even though we call the repair line at Islington Council. We get told to talk to the estate co-ordinator that is not on the estate. The estate has fallen into disarray.

NATHAN FLYNN
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