A person has been banned from having anyone else inside their home in one of the most deprived parts of Wales.
A closure order has been put in place against the individual, who lives in the Tyisha area of Llanelli, following repeated warnings from police and Carmarthenshire Council concerning anti-social behaviour.
The order was delivered by community wardens working in the area on behalf of the council, and it means that the person concerned cannot invite anyone into their home, or allow access to their property or communal areas to any other person.
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Authorities have warned that immediate police action will follow if the order is breached.
According to Carmarthenshire Council, the order itself has been made in an attempt to reduce instances of anti-social behaviour in the Tyisha area, which is currently part of an ambitious project that aims to regenerate it by increasing community safety, improving the environment and developing housing and community facilities.
Tyisha has, for some time, suffered with numerous problems including drug use, alcohol abuse and littering, as well as anti-social behaviour. The area surrounding Murray Street in particular, known as Tyisha 2, was listed two years ago as the most deprived part of Carmarthenshire by the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation and one of the most deprived in the whole of Wales.
You can read more about the council’s plans to clean-up Tyisha here and find out what the people who live there think of those plans here.
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Regarding the closure order which has been actioned against the unnamed individual, the council’s chair of the Transforming Tyisha steering group and cabinet member for housing, Linda Davies, said: “Thanks to the hard work and dedication of Tyisha’s community wardens working in partnership with Dyfed-Powys Police, an excellent result has been achieved which will help to make Tyisha a safer place to live.
"The closure order will help to put the community at ease and stop any further anti-social behaviour from this individual.
“I would urge any residents experiencing anti-social behaviour to contact the police on 101.”
Dyfed-Powys Police, which is working alongside the council, believes the order sends a message to anyone who continues to misbehave despite being warned of the consequences. A spokesman for the force said: “This is a clear message that, working with the local authority, we will do all that we can to disrupt anti-social behaviour within our communities and protect those who are directly affected by these individuals.
"The use of orders such as these are invaluable and we will continue to adopt and enforce such orders as appropriate.”
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