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September 2006
> Harvest meet Blair’s Call to Action
Tony Blair invited a call to action in tackling antisocial behaviour on Tuesday in his last address to the Labour Party Conference as leader. Speaking to delegates in Manchester he said:
“When antisocial behaviour goes unchecked, each and every member of the community in which it happens has their human rights broken.”
Harvest Housing Group are proud to be leading the fight against antisocial behaviour in their neighbourhoods and are achieving outstanding results because of it.
Harvest Housing Group, and their subsidiary Partington Housing Association, was the first registered social landlord (RSL) to successfully apply for an ASBO in 2003, on 16-year old tenant, David Povey, after his continued reign of terror throughout his neighbourhood. As part of the order, he became the 1st young person to be banned from his own home, making a positive step towards achieving a more peaceful and safer environment for other residents.
In the same year Partington Housing Association achieved another first when it served 3 members of the same family each with an ASBO. Brothers Donald, David and Daniel Domlan, who were not tenants of the housing association, have all since served custodial sentences for breeching their antisocial behaviour orders.
Cathy Bennett, Community Safety Manager for Harvest Housing Group says:
“Our message is clear that antisocial behaviour in our neighbourhoods and communities will not be tolerated, no matter whether the perpetrators are Harvest tenants or not and we will take all necessary measures to ensure antisocial behaviour is wiped out.”
To date, Harvest Housing Group has served 23 ASBOs and 35 antisocial behaviour injunctions.