QPWEB Issues - Prostitution

While this is less of a problem in Queens Park than before, it remains an issue where, if vigilance isn't maintained, it will return.

(While people's sexual behaviour is their own business, most local residents do not want sex work activities taking place in their public open space. Not only because of the risk to children and schools in the area but also because of the other crimes associated with the activity. Not to mention the used condoms left lying around...)

The Queens Park Play Park used to be notorious for this problem -  a children's play park, of all places. The preferred venue used to be the public toilets there. When that facility was locked, activities continued in the narrow alleyway behind the toilets. When the toilet was enclosed with a palisade, the activities still continued, though on a lesser scale, in the area where the tricycle/scooter track is (due to the moderate cover that was available).

It was only when the Play Park was surrounded by a palisade fence which is locked at night that the problem really began to reduce. However, an incident took place there as recently as 2013.

There were also activities going on in the narrow embankment between the Soccer Field's northern edge and the Play Park's palisade fence. The foliage from the overhanging trees needs to be kept reasonably trimmed otherwise the problem will return.

Currently, some night activity still takes place in the Car Park next to the Dog Park, usually well after the Dog Park gate has been locked. It's a dark, lonely spot. Police vans and security vehicles parked there help to discourage this.

For an amusing story about Hookers Alley, click here.

For other Queens Park issues, click here.

QPWEB Issues - Drugs

The drug problem in Cape Town has been well documented. The problem persists in Queens Park, though to a lesser extent than before. Many children use Queens Park and surrounding areas and they are particularly vulnerable to this scourge. Particular attention is exercised by the residents and responsible Park users to deal with this. You can help. too.

There have been cases of kids smoking dagga in various parts of Queens Park, typically at the less visible areas. That is unfortunate and should be reported. What is far less acceptable are those adults who use drugs, especially in plain sight of adolescents in or near the park. Hardly a good example to set...

Please report any cases of drugs being sold or consumed that you may see in the area. The SAP are your first telephone call. Accurate details of the seller (age, complexion, height, clothing etc.) and buyer/s, as well as when and where the event is taking place, must be timeously and discretely reported to the police.

For more on Queens Park issues, click here.

QPWEB Issues for Queens Park

Any public park will have some issues. Fortunately, some are now less of a problem in Queens Park than before. To describe such issues is not to discourage people from using the park, but to rise awareness so that the community can respond and minimise the bad stuff.

Drugs

Prostitution

Vagrancy

Vandalism

Bad Behaviour

Truancy


Grafitti

Litter

For further Security issues, click here.

Queens Park Soccer Field

Here will be posted links to issues about the Queens Park Soccer Field.

The Queens Park Dog Park ROLL OF HONOUR

Very grateful acknowledgement is made to the many people and their dogs for kindly having donated plastic poo bags and/or money to purchase same. The dogs visiting Queens Park, their owners and the Park users in general are indebted to your valiant acts of generosity!

(If you have made a donation and have yet to be acknowleded, or wish to donate poo bags, please contact the parkzombie, who maintains this list.)

2014

October: 

Owner of Loki kindly donated R100

September

Gunnar and Moira kindly donated 2x bags

2013

Owner of Lilly-Rose

Gunnar and Moira, owners of Alli and Will (and other dogs who must be recorded) have made substantial donations

Primary acknowledgement is made to Delilah, owner of Maximus, who started the poo bag collection scheme in the first place. She arranged for the delivery of scores of plastic bag rolls!

Special mention also goes to those brave people who selflessly collect other people's dog's poo! This unlovely task is sometimes necessary.

We also acknowledge the many kind anonymous folk who, over the years, have left spare plastic bags in the plastic bag dispenser in the Dog Park.

QPWEB Donating Plastic Poo Bags

Queens Park Dog Park has many visitors and their dogs. The inevitable dog poo accumulates if it isn't collected and thrown into the red Dog Poo bins on the perimeter of the Dog Park.

The plastic bags for the above purpose are donated by kind dog owners, and donations (either in cash or in kind) are gratefully received. Their names (and / or those of their dogs) liveth for ever more on the prestigious Roll of Honour page.

How can I make a donation?

Several options:

1. Purchase a plastic bag roll (or rolls) from one of the plastic bag outlets (see below) and deliver it to to the house with the green palisade fence in Queens Park Avenue, just north of the Play Park gate (no. 44), or give it to the man who locks the Dog Park gate at nightfall.
    
2. Make a cash donation to the man who locks the gate, who will purchase the equivalent value of plastic bag rolls for you. Receipts are kept for all cash donations and will be delivered on request.
    
3. If you have any spare (thin) plastic bags loose (such as those used to wrap milk sachets at supermarkets), stuff them into the Plastic Bag DIspenser in the Dog Park.

If you make a donation, please supply your and / or your dog's name, that these might be acknowledged on the Roll of Honour. Spare plastic bag rolls are stored by the parkzombie and deployed to the bag dispenser in the Dog Park when the old one has been used up.

Where can I buy Plastic Bags?

A convenient nearby outlet is at Plastipak, who are in the old Salt River Post Office building at 60 Salt River Road in Salt River.
Other suppliers will be added as they become known

Queens Park Dog Park

Here will be posted links issues about the Queens Park Dog Park