Rules will be changed to make it easier to evict disruptive tenants and ban organised or harmful begging, the UK government announced on Monday as part of its crackdown on anti-social behaviour.
Police in England and Wales will be given power to do more drug tests. Laughing gas will also be banned to “put an end to intimidating groups of young people littering local parks with empty cannisters.”
Those who fly-tip or graffiti will face higher fines and be forced to repair damages they cause within as little as 48 hours of being caught in an “immediate justice” approach.
Launching the new “Anti-Social Behaviour Action Plan,” Prime Minister Rishi Sunak wrote that it’s “simply unacceptable” to live “in fear of intimidation from their neighbours or gangs terrorising their streets.”…