Belfast City Council is demanding the Stormont Justice Minister “step up to the plate” and combat antisocial behaviour by equalling the local authority’s spending on neighbourhood alley gates.
At the recent full meeting of Belfast City Council, elected members agreed for City Hall to write to Justice Minister Naomi Long calling on her to match fund the council’s spending of half a million pounds this year on the transformative scheme. The Council says the scheme has dramatically affected levels of antisocial behaviour in neighbourhoods.
The council recently announced a swathe of gates distributed in Belfast’s four quarters, and a list of reserves. However, the council allocation goes nowhere near meeting the demand for alley gating across the city.
