It was in July when the Lynn News reported a gating order was being made by Norfolk County Council's cabinet to allow a gate or gates to be put up between Pilot Street and John Kennedy Road to stop a short alley being used as a shortcut by those leaving Zoots nightclub.

The measures are being put up by the Safer West Norfolk Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership and were then hoped would be in place within "three to four months".

However, long-suffering resident Mr Julian Hepburn has this week raised concerns that the gates might not go ahead after all.

"We need these gates," he said, adding windows had been broken in Pilot Street, cars damaged and residents had also had to suffer drunken behaviour.

"On one occasion two youths, obviously drunk, were sitting in the road. It was like something out of 'Waiting for Godot'," he added.

(Waiting for Godot is a play by Samuel Beckett about two tramps waiting by a tree for a man who never turns up.)

Mr Hepburn is also looking into getting shutters for his property to protect it.

"On Saturday night at around 10.45pm I heard lads kicking a bottle down the street. You wonder what is going to happen to the bottle," he said.

Mr Hepburn wanted the gates installed "before Christmas", saying some of those living in the street were in their 90s and did not want their lives turned into a "living hell".

However, a spokesman for Norfolk County Council told the Lynn News that the gates were in hand.

Legal processes were going through and he hoped the measures would be in place by the end of October beginning of November, recognising the problems which had been being encountered in the past.



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