Council powerless after brothel run from a tent on Park Lane
Leader of Westminster City Council has written to the Home Secretary urging her to tackle criminal gangs of beggars
13 December 2020 • 10:32am
Priti Patel has been warned that one of the country’s most affluent neighbourhoods is on a “cliff edge” because the authorities are powerless to dismantle a homeless encampment despite a brothel having been run from a tent near a primary school.
For seven years, scores of tents have been set up on a central reservation on Park Lane in Mayfair, London.
The encampment, between Hyde Park and rows of luxury car dealers, attracts mainly Roma Gypsy families from Romania. The inhabitants are seen regularly using local fountains to wash and subways as toilets before begging around the capital.
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