We live on the Croft estate, on what most people would describe as a desirable road.
The vast majority of residents are decent, tax paying, hard working individuals who have respect for their neighbours and their community.
As much as it saddens me to write this, the problem we have lies with a small minority of teenagers, mainly boys (most of whom don't live on the estate) behaving like stereotypical hooded louts.
I can just here the "do gooders" sighing and saying yeah yeah – but believe me I've seen it with my own eyes.
You only have to walk between The Croft and Meadowlands estates to see permanent evidence of these idiots – lurid, highly graphic sexual graffiti, smashed glass, broken street lamps, dog mess all over the place, vandalised fences and signage.
In addition we regularly get motorcycles travelling at high speed along cycle paths with complete disregard for the young children who innocently play in the area.
It is becoming clear that the recent dispersal order in Howe Road has exacerbated the problem.
As usual in modern society instead of dealing with the problem we've moved it elsewhere which will no doubt result in the residents of The Croft having to gather their own cache of evidence to once again move the problem somewhere else.
The thing that amazes me is that no-one in Haverhill is hungry, poverty is virtually non-existent.
If we go back to the 1930's there would have been people in this town and the wider area actually starving, but they didn't go around smashing things up and making other peoples lives a misery.
Haverhill still suffers from a bad reputation which is a great shame as a large number of people really care about this town.
Isn't it about time that we all made a stand, once and for all to stamp out this infantile minority and make Haverhill a better place?
Adam Mepham,
Haverhill.