It has also become an assembly location for criminals.
Residents have raised concerns of loitering school teens at the property on the corner of Mack Road and Hancock Stree, believed to be privately owned, as well as two adjacent empty properties belonging to the Department of Public Works.
Resident Ashraf Goori said children used the vandalised property as a bypass to the nearby bus stop after school.
‘Teenagers are seen making their way into the abandoned house and in December last year, a young girl was so high on drugs that an ambulance had to be called to remove her,’ Goori said.
Business Against Crime Manager Dave Whittaker said there were several drug hot spots in the City ‘and this was just one more place’.
‘Young girls on scooters are driving through the CDB in a desperate attempt to get hold of drugs to purchase and are being sexually harassed by dealers,’ Whittaker said.
‘When it comes to capacity, ability and means from the police force to deal with this problem, there is none.
A pile of empty alcoholic drink cans lay in the corner of the abandoned house where young schoolchildren loiter after hours. Photos: Duschanka Hitzeroth.
