On a glorious sunny Saturday [24th March] over thirty Tolworth residents brought together by the organisers of the Sunray Estate Residents’ Association, and supported by five members of the police’s Alexandra Safer Neighbourhoods team, joined together to clean up the service roads on the Sunray Estate.
"These roads had become a hotspot for anti social behaviour," says Sergeant Glen Forsyth "and the Sunray and Egmont Residents' Association with our support decided to do something about it. As soon as we got funding for the skips there was no stopping us."
Piles of dumped tree cuttings and discarded rubbish were all gathered up over just one morning into skips funded by the Joint Action Group.
Chair of the Association, Stuart Wears says; "It was great to see the community coming together like this to improve our environment. I think the event was best encapsulated by one of our members who said ‘Two extremes this morning. The lows of people who could dump sofas, vacuum cleaners, bedsteads in what could be a really attractive area. And the highs of really wonderful community spirit. Hopefully we can find a way for the latter to permanently triumph over the former.’"
Sergeant Glen Forsyth added; "Removing rubbish and improving the area will help discourage crime. It is great that the impetus to clean up came from the residents themselves and we were only too happy to give our time, and muscle, to helping the clean up efforts."
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