Current Campaigns

Officers from Northampton Borough Council wish to speak with these two individuals who were seen dumping rubbish into our Semilong Northampton community.

If you know who they are, please contact SEMILONG.ORG.

Please remember, flytipping is a criminal offence with a maximum penalty of 5 years in prison or an unlimited fine !!

When seen we will publish photographs and videos of flytippers disposing of their rubbish on the streets of our community.

Our aim is to stop our Semilong Northampton neighbourhood looking like a rubbish tip.

[read about our campaign here]

Semilong Northampton Litter Lout 1

This LITTER LOUT casually threw his litter on the ground with no regard to the people who live, work or pass through Semilong Northampton.

[read the article here]

Litter is a permanent problem in our neighbourhood and despite it costing thousands to clear up, some people think it is still alright to throw there litter on the ground.

Our aim is to make these litter louts think twice about using Semilong Northampton streets as a litter bin and to reduce the amount of litter that our residents have to put up with.

[read about our campaign here]

As this map of reported crime shows, our Semilong Northampton neighbourhood is a crime hotspot, with the crime rate figures never falling below the HIGH mark.

Our aim is to help to reduce that figure by highlighting the publiscised crime in our neighbourhood.

We will also support the Semilong Neighbourhood Watch Scheme.

For crime prevention advice and tips please see the Neighbourhood Watch site.

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Environmental Enforcement Officers So Covert No-One Knew They Were Even Employed

What an incredible situation.. the new Environmental Enforcement Officers were launched amid an outcry of the whole Neighbourhood Warden being reorganised.

New Northampton Borough Council Initiative Launched With Gusto

The Northampton Borough Council Cabinet Meeting was very well attended when they announced their intention and it was reported widely in the local newspaper, the Chronicle & Echo. Brilliant idea. We will actually have Officers to concentrate on Enforcing the laws that up to then had been given such a low priority.

Why Then Did Hardly Anyone Know They Were Employed?

Andy Langton, the Neighbourhood Warden who's job was so affected by the reorganisation, knew they were employed.

The One-Stop Shop at the Northampton Borough Council's Guildhall, who's task it is to advise members of the public regarding access to Council services did not know.

Human Resources at the Guildhall thought SEMILONG.ORG was mistaken saying "I see all the job vacancies, they all come across my desk and no-one has been employed as an Environmental Enforcement Officer. Are you sure it isn't Northamptonshire County Council who employ them? Perhaps they are contract staff, or perhaps they just haven't sorted out the vacancies yet. We will let you know."

Amazing to find that afterall they had been employed for several weeks without apparently even Northampton Borough Council Human Resources Department knowing about it.

Perhaps it is not such a high priority to have them afterall. They certainly have their work cut out for them.

Good Wishes

SEMILONG.ORG contacted the new Environmental Enforcement Officers for Northampton. We advised them of the fly-tipping problem here in Semilong Northampton and wished them the greatest success in tackling it.

The Environmental Enforcement Officers are for a time concentrating on tackling the waste from commercial premises. Easy pickings perhaps.

Nevertheless, we will keep you updated as hopefully they will turn their attention to the fly-tipping that Semilong Northampton is continually blighted by.

Article Date: 17-September-2009

We, as a community together, can make a difference.

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