Northern Rail has finally taken action following Ann Smith’s request for a clean-up of Davenport Station car park.
The state of the car park was raised by local residents in a Lib Dem Residents’ Survey. As well as litter and dog fouling, one resident reported criminal damage to a car. Ann asked Northern to do more to keep the site clean and look into better security with measures such as CCTV, as is used in similar facilities elsewhere.
Northern’s response read “Davenport has received some attention recently to improve security… Unfortunately there are no plans to extend CCTV.”
But trees were trimmed or removed and a large number of bushes were cut, and a general litter pick was undertaken.