Andover and Six Acres Estate Enhanced Partnership Response Project

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Background

We know that crime and anti-social and crime on the Andover and Six Acres estates is of concern to residents who have been reporting drug dealing drug use, fly tipping and rough sleeping to the police and also to the anti-social behaviour response service.

The Andover and Six Acres Estates receives the highest level of antisocial behaviour reports in the borough and is the most consistent hot spot.
A hotspot is when a location receives six or more calls of antisocial behaviour to the council and police within a two week time frame.

The council coordinate a multi agency meeting that meets weekly and monthly to identify the root causes of the antisocial behaviour on the estate and to tackle it on a number of fronts, carrying out and environmental visual audit to understand physical improvements that need to be made, allocating resourcing such as police and park guard patrols, identifying perpetrators and escalating enforcement action and increasing support offer to the estate through street outreach and Targeted Youth Support.

However we recognise that more needs to be done to ensure residents voices are heard and can direct where we focus our efforts.

Aim

Our aim is to ensure that the residents and visitors to the Andover and Six acres estates can feel safe walking through the estate and in their homes regardless of your personal identity, the time of day, or how busy it is.

We want to make the area safer and want residents to feel confident in reporting incidents and in the response they receive.

We know that how safe you feel can be influenced by many factors – including age, gender expression, race, ethnicity, visible religious affiliation, and expression of sexuality, as well as how dark it is and how many people are outside.

We want you to tell us how you feel and what you would like to see change. We want to know how communities think we should be improving safety and community confidence, how we can better involve and engage communities in our work and how best we can communicate the work we do with you

Ways to get involved

Complete our Survey

We want to understand more about how you feel about safety and improvements we can make. We will open a short survey in February where you can tell us exactly where you feel safe or unsafe, why and what improvements you’d like to see at different locations. The survey will take 5-10 minutes to complete.

Share your ideas

We will also open an ideas board at the same time. If you’re short on time or prefer not to complete the survey, you can simply add your suggestions for improvements to the estate that could reduce crime and ASB and improve feelings of safety for residents. We will review all response together to help us understand what to focus on over the next few months.

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What's Next?

  • Over the next year services across the council and our partners in the police as well as other partners will be focusing on working jointly to improve feelings of safety on the Andover estate.
  • We will use this information to direct resources towards those issues and projects you would like us to focus on and over the following three months we will aim to progress these across the estate.
  • At the end of the project we will ask residents whether they have felt and improvement on the estate and we will be asking what more we need to do. Your ideas and input will help us direct resources and focus on the project most important to you.
  • Your ideas and feedback from the survey will help us identify what improvements you want to prioritise on the estate, such as lighting, gates, locks.
  • This will also help us focus resources such as police and parkguard and outreach patrols.
  • This will help us better understand how you would like to engage with us, for instance increasing opportunities to speak with the police and council through contact points, or identifying engagement activities for specific groups on the estate.
  • We will feedback to residents on our progress telling you how we have implemented your ideas and taken your suggestions forward.
  • If you sign up you will also be able to see key events such as drop ins, fun days and other opportunities to get involved, speak to services or be updated on progress.


Background

We know that crime and anti-social and crime on the Andover and Six Acres estates is of concern to residents who have been reporting drug dealing drug use, fly tipping and rough sleeping to the police and also to the anti-social behaviour response service.

The Andover and Six Acres Estates receives the highest level of antisocial behaviour reports in the borough and is the most consistent hot spot.
A hotspot is when a location receives six or more calls of antisocial behaviour to the council and police within a two week time frame.

The council coordinate a multi agency meeting that meets weekly and monthly to identify the root causes of the antisocial behaviour on the estate and to tackle it on a number of fronts, carrying out and environmental visual audit to understand physical improvements that need to be made, allocating resourcing such as police and park guard patrols, identifying perpetrators and escalating enforcement action and increasing support offer to the estate through street outreach and Targeted Youth Support.

However we recognise that more needs to be done to ensure residents voices are heard and can direct where we focus our efforts.

Aim

Our aim is to ensure that the residents and visitors to the Andover and Six acres estates can feel safe walking through the estate and in their homes regardless of your personal identity, the time of day, or how busy it is.

We want to make the area safer and want residents to feel confident in reporting incidents and in the response they receive.

We know that how safe you feel can be influenced by many factors – including age, gender expression, race, ethnicity, visible religious affiliation, and expression of sexuality, as well as how dark it is and how many people are outside.

We want you to tell us how you feel and what you would like to see change. We want to know how communities think we should be improving safety and community confidence, how we can better involve and engage communities in our work and how best we can communicate the work we do with you

Ways to get involved

Complete our Survey

We want to understand more about how you feel about safety and improvements we can make. We will open a short survey in February where you can tell us exactly where you feel safe or unsafe, why and what improvements you’d like to see at different locations. The survey will take 5-10 minutes to complete.

Share your ideas

We will also open an ideas board at the same time. If you’re short on time or prefer not to complete the survey, you can simply add your suggestions for improvements to the estate that could reduce crime and ASB and improve feelings of safety for residents. We will review all response together to help us understand what to focus on over the next few months.

Stay informed

To keep up to date with the latest developments, subscribe to this page for updates. We will be adding a regular news update.

What's Next?

  • Over the next year services across the council and our partners in the police as well as other partners will be focusing on working jointly to improve feelings of safety on the Andover estate.
  • We will use this information to direct resources towards those issues and projects you would like us to focus on and over the following three months we will aim to progress these across the estate.
  • At the end of the project we will ask residents whether they have felt and improvement on the estate and we will be asking what more we need to do. Your ideas and input will help us direct resources and focus on the project most important to you.
  • Your ideas and feedback from the survey will help us identify what improvements you want to prioritise on the estate, such as lighting, gates, locks.
  • This will also help us focus resources such as police and parkguard and outreach patrols.
  • This will help us better understand how you would like to engage with us, for instance increasing opportunities to speak with the police and council through contact points, or identifying engagement activities for specific groups on the estate.
  • We will feedback to residents on our progress telling you how we have implemented your ideas and taken your suggestions forward.
  • If you sign up you will also be able to see key events such as drop ins, fun days and other opportunities to get involved, speak to services or be updated on progress.


  • Andover & Six Acres Enhance Partnership Response Outcomes

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    In response to an increased number of reports about crime , rough sleeping and anti-social behaviour ,on Andover & Six Acres estate, we have been carrying out additional work in this area to tackle these problems. We are working with the Police, Estate Services , Street Population Teams, and Park-guard to reduce anti-social behaviour and crime.

    Keeping Our Estates Safe
    Andover and Six Acres was not identified as a hotspot during the first three weeks of January 2026. The reduction in incidents is attributed to the coordinated actions taken by Police and Park-guard, outlined below.

    Over the past two months, Park-guard teams have been out across Andover and Six Acres Estate , delivering over 200 patrols to help maintain a safe and welcoming environment.

    Park guard patrols Completed

    • Andover Estate: 80 patrols
    • Six Acres Estate: 133 patrols
    • Total: 213+ patrols across both estates

    What Park-guard Have Been Doing

    • Most patrols found everything in order, showing a calmer period across both estates.
    • Regular reassurance patrols in key areas, especially during evenings.
    • Frequent resident engagement — officers spoke with many of you to hear concerns or receive feedback.
    • Welfare checks for vulnerable residents and rough sleepers, with support and referrals offered.
    • Weapon sweeps completed with no weapons found during this period.
    • Daily checks of stairwells, bin rooms, and communal areas to keep hotspots safe and tidy.
    • Maintenance issues spotted early lighting, doors, fly‑tipping and reported for estate service to action.
    • Strong partnership work with concierge and estate teams to resolve issues quickly.

    What have Police Safer Neighbourhood been doing

    • Executed two Section 23 Misuse of Drugs Act warrants on the Andover estate, contributing to a reduction in reports to police.
    • Issued a Community Protection Notice (CPN) against a prolific offender active across the Andover and Six Acres estates.
    • Submitted a joint police–council application for a Closure Order on a property linked to persistent antisocial behaviour (ASB) and criminality on the Andover estate.
    • Regularly removed individuals engaged in ASB, drug use, or trespassing within the area.
    • Issued ASB warnings to individuals persistently involved in ASB-related issues and criminal activity across both the Andover and Six Acres estates.
    • Made three separate arrests for Possession With Intent to Supply (Class A).
    • Recovered at least 450 wraps of cocaine and heroin across both estates during EPR activity.
    • Arrested one individual for a theft-related offence on the Six Acres estate.

    We are pleased with the outcomes of this initiative but recognise there is more to do, and we will continue to work with you to address your ASB concerns on both estates.

  • Andover & Six Acres Estates update 19th January

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    What have we been doing on Andover and Six Acres

    During the month December 2025 we received various reports of drug dealing, open drug use, rough sleeper and antisocial behaviour (ASB) in Andover & Six Acres Estate. We contacted our partners as quickly as we could to ensure that actions had been allocated to the correct teams to address the issues raised with us and convened a meeting to ensure we could put a robust plan in place. We understand that this kind of behaviour can be frightening and make people feel unsafe in their homes and whilst travelling through the estates.

    We took the following steps to address these issues:

    • Our contractors at Alpha Tracker have carried out inspections of the broken at Fyfield house. The faulty part has now been identified, and an urgent repair has been raised to replace the magnet on the door.
    • In the interim daily inspections of the door in Fyfield house is being carried to ensure no further damage is made to the door.
    • Estate Services have assigned mobile caretakers to carry out a deep clean to remove rubbish, and clear bedded down items found on the stairwells.
    • Drugs and outreach support services regularly attending the Six acres to engage with any person found sleeping in the blocks.
    • Outreach teams are tasked to the area daily, including drug, alcohol and health workers and have been engaging with the street population around Six Acres and area, offering support and helping them away from the streets.
    • Combinations of early morning and late evening patrols to target those causing Anti-Social behaviour in the blocks.
    • Estate Service caretakers will provide daily checks and will continue to thoroughly clean and clear any items and debris found in Fyfield house.
    • High visibility patrols by Safer Neighbourhood police in the area. Officers have been issuing ASB Warnings and moving on unauthorised persons loitering around the estates and car parks

    Park-guard Update:

    • 56 patrols conducted on across Six Acres and Andover between Dec and first two weeks of January. (Focus around Fyfield, Haden , Clifton Court and Milfield House
    • Weapon sweeps completed across both Andover and Six Acres Estates and fortunately no weapons were found.
    • Officers spending more than 69 hours on site carrying out reassurance patrols, block checks, weapon sweeps, and welfare checks.
    • Public spaces and blocks have been noticeably calmer, with far fewer groups gathering.
    • Concluding No anti-social behaviour (ASB) observed during patrols in the last 2 weeks period during patrols.
    • Residents and concierge staff have provided positive feedback about the increased patrols, which continue to help deter unwanted behaviour and keep the estates safe.


    Police Updates

    • Operations to target prolific offenders around Andover & Six Acres estate as well as the Finsbury Park foot print continues.
    • We are sharing information to identify individuals and emerging issues.

  • Andover And Six Acres Update 22nd Dec

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    What have we been doing on Andover and Six Acres

    We received reports of drug dealing, open drug use, rough sleeper and antisocial behaviour (ASB) in Andover & Six Acres Estate. We take these matters seriously and know that this kind of behaviour can be frightening and make people feel unsafe in their homes and whilst travelling through the area.

    We are taking the following steps to address these issues:

    • Senior Housing officers have engaged with 37 residents of Six Acres estate, taking the time to address any concerns or tenancy issues they may have .
    • Residents on the Andover estate are being encouraged to engage with the senior housing officers when they see them on the estate.
    • Job has been raised with Alpha Track to fix the closing magnets at Fyfield House this action has been escalated as high priority.
    • Islington council commissions specialist outreach teams who go into the community to support people with drug addiction. Outreach teams are tasked to the area daily, including drug, alcohol and health workers and have been engaging with the street population around Six Acres and area, offering support and helping them away from the street.
    • Street population support workers having been engaging with individuals who have been sleeping rough inside Fyfield, Fallowfield and Haden Court, completing 8 shift per week during the EPR.
    • Estate Service caretakers will provide daily checks and will continue to thoroughly clean and clear any items and debris found in Fyfield house.
    • High visibility patrols by Safer Neighbourhood police in the area. Officers have been issuing ASB Warnings and moving on unauthorised persons loitering around the estates.

    Park-guard Update:

    • Multiple weapon sweeps completed across both Andover and Six Acres Estates this week with no weapons found.
    • Several successful community engagement moments, including dog walkers, local shop staff, concierge teams, and residents thanking officers for their presence and support.
    • Youth interactions remained positive throughout the week, with no ASB observed during patrols.
    • Joint reassurance with concierge staff resulted in increased visibility and improved communication regarding issues on site.
    • At Six Acres Estate, officers also assisted a member of the public and provided reassurance where residents expressed concerns.

    Police Updates

    • 2 warrants were executed on Andover estate following reports of drugs cultivation and dealing at two separate addresses.
    • Plain clothes operations to target prolific offenders resulted in 2 arrests made outside Fyfield house last Friday 19th Dec.
    • Cuppa with a copper provided an opportunity for the public to engage with police held at the Andover Community Centre Wednesday 11 Dec
    • Street briefings around the estate which has resulted in an increase of Met engage sign-ups promoting community engagement.
    • Police weapon sweep with cadets carried out on Saturday 20th Dec


    Festive period Police and Park-guard cover
    Tasked patrols will continue on over Christmas.
    Police will continue to     patrol over the Christmas period

  • Andover & Six Acres Update 15th Dec

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    What have we been doing on Andover and Six Acres

    In response to an increased number of calls about crime and anti-social behaviour in the Andover & Six Acres Estate, we have been carrying out additional work in this area to tackle these problems. We are working with the Police, Street Population Teams, Outreach Teams, Estate Service, ASB First Response and Parkguard to reduce anti-social behaviour and crime.

    We are taking the following steps to address these issues:

    • We held a drop-in session held at Andover Community Centre an opportunity for residents to come and speak with tenancy and community safety officer.
    • Islington council commissions specialist outreach teams who go into the community to support people with drug addiction. Outreach teams have been tasked to the area daily, they are carrying out patrols with drug, alcohol and health workers who have been engaging with the street population around Six Acres and area, offering support and helping them away from the street.
    • Street population support workers having been engaging with individuals who have been sleeping rough inside Fyfield and Haden Court.
    • A job has been raised with Alpha Track to fix the closing magnets at Fyfield House.
    • We are addressing lighting faults and fly-tipping outside Clifton Court.
    • Two individuals have since been supported away from the estate and fully engage with support services.
    • Estate Service caretakers instructed to thoroughly clean and clear any items left behind by rough sleepers using the top floors at Fyfield
    • High visibility patrols are being conducted daily by Safer Neighbourhood police in the area. Officers have been issuing ASB Warnings and moving on unauthorised persons loitering around the estates.
    • Parkguard have conducted 23 visits across Andover and Six Acres, spending around 18 hours on site to provide reassurance and tackle issues.
    • 7 weapon sweeps have been conducted with no weapons found, gave nine on-the-spot warnings, and directed three people to leave.
    • CCTV network on Andover & Six Acres currently being updating .
    • Youth provider Kickback continue running after-school club at the Durham Road Community Rooms (on the Andover Estate) every Wednesday from 3–5pm during term time.

  • Andover & Six Acres Update 8th Dec

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    What have we been doing on Andover and Six Acres

    In response to an increased number of calls about crime and anti-social behaviour in the Andover & Six Acres Estate, we have been carrying out additional work in this area to tackle these problems. We are working with the Police, Street Population Teams, Outreach Teams, Estate Service, ASB First Response and Parkguard to reduce anti-social behaviour and crime.

    We are taking the following steps to address these issues:

    • Door audit has been completed at Didbin Doucra, Noll House and Fyfield, Haden Court and many more. Police Design Out Crime Officer in attendance and made some recommendations which the council are considering, to improve security of communal doors.
    • Street briefing on Six Acres Estate was an opportunity for residents to come and speak with various council officials. We were joined by residents who expressed their concerns for both Andover & Six Acres Estate.
    • Estate Service team have raised an urgent job Job request with Alpha Track contractors to repair the communal door at Fyfield House.

    In the coming week there will be:

    • High visibility patrols by Safer Neighbourhood police in the area. Officers have been issuing ASB Warnings, and liaising with local businesses and residents.
    • Police are being supported by Islington ASB officers (Parkguard) who respond to reports made to the council. Parkguard are also tasked weekly, based on intelligence, to complete proactive patrols in hot spot locations, often with police or outreach teams.
    • Outreach which including drug, alcohol and health workers. Are tasked to carry out daily patrols, and focus on engaging with the street population in the area, offering support and helping them away from the street.
    • Utilising an extensive 24/7 CCTV network to deter and detect crime.
    • Using intelligence to identify problematic addresses and utilising partnership working to support vulnerable people and use enforcement against identified perpetrators.


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