A flat in Ellesmere Port which was having a 'huge' negative impact on the community has been shut down by the courts.
The property on Beechfield Road was boarded up after magistrates granted a closure order at Chester Magistrates Court this morning (September 16).
The court heard that the flat has been at the centre of numerous reports of drug use and anti-social behaviour.
Tenant Robert Coxon will be banned from entering the address for the three-month length of the order, which was applied for by Cheshire police.
PC Graeme Morrison, anti-social behaviour officer at Ellesmere Port Local Policing Unit, said: "A flat on Beechfield Road is now closed due to reports of drug activity and anti-social behaviour.
"The activities of the occupants and visitors to the flat were having a huge negative impact on both residents and local businesses alike.
"The court granted the order for three months after hearing the catalogue of incidents that had taken place at the flat in the short time that Robert Coxon had been the tenant.
"We will continue to pursue the perpetrators of this sort of behaviour and are willing and prepared to take this ultimate sanction of putting offenders out of their homes."
