A message from HRA’s Honorary Secretary – Barbara Claridge

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on Aug 13, 2025 in Crime Incidents | 0 comments     Dear HRA Crime Information Sharing WhatsApp Group member HRA Crime Information Sharing WhatsApp Group There have been some recent inappropriate postings within the group which may not have been an intentional breach of the Terms of Use.  However, HRA Officers have discussed and agreed that the HRA Crime Information Sharing Group will no longer be used as the platform for sharing...
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Southampton Demonstrations – KINS Community Contact update from Hampshire and IOW Constabulary – 7 August 2025

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on Aug 7, 2025 in Crime Incidents, News | 0 comments “Last Friday, protestors once again gathered outside the Highfield House Hotel, which we policed to ensure all parties were doing so lawfully and to try and limit the broader impact on the local community.   Going forward, we do expect to see further protests there and we will continue to have officers with the right skills present at these, along with our local neighbourhood policing...
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Response from Inspector Maidment to concerns raised about Ceno during the anti-immigration protests

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on Aug 6, 2025 in Crime Incidents, News | 0 comments   HRA has received the following information from Inspector Maidment of Southampton North Neighbourhood Policing Team, with regard to the concerns raised in the HRA Crime information sharing WhatsApp Group about Ceno during the anti-immigration protests:   “Ceno have been visited by the police licensing team. They are not being taken to review at this time. Any evidence captured...
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Concern about serving alcohol to protesters before, during and after protests on Friday 1 August 2025

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on Aug 4, 2025 in Crime Incidents | 0 comments Concern that a local bar and restaurant served anti-immigration protesters alcohol before, during and after the protests the last couple of weeks. Is it within the terms of a licence to fuel already heightened behaviour with alcohol? From the videos the person reporting saw online, there were protesters on the roof of the hotel shouting religious slurs as well as swearing and drinking out of...
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Cat Skye, missing from Orchards Way. See below for photo/contact no of owner. Informed on 10/08/25 that Skye had sadly died.

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on Aug 2, 2025 in Crime Incidents, News | 0 comments This is Skye who has gone missing from Orchards Way. His owner asks if you could please check any sheds or garages or with any contractors you had visiting on Friday in case he has climbed in a van! Please phone Jan on 07500 058362 if you have any information on him. Hopefully, he will be found soon. Informed on 10/08/25 that Skye had sadly died.
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Lost, unaccompanied dog with no collar, spotted at the junction of Brookvale Road and Westwood Road today – 2/8/25, at around 5pm

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on Aug 2, 2025 in Crime Incidents, News | 0 comments The below photo has been sent to us by the person who spotted this unaccompanied dog at the junction of Brookvale Road and Westwood Road today (2/8/25), at around 5pm. The dog had no collar on and ran away when she went towards it. Hopefully, the dog is still in the area so that the owner and this poor doggie can be reunited.
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Incidents reported re the Anti-Immigrant protest on Friday 1 August 2025

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on Aug 2, 2025 in Crime Incidents | 0 comments A HRA member was concerned “that Ceno served anti-immigration protesters alcohol before, during and after the protests the last couple of weeks. From the videos I’ve seen online, there were protesters on the roof of the hotel shouting religious slurs as well as swearing and drinking out of glass containers on the footpath. I don’t feel that they showed regard for our community while...
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Drone flying above the traffic light junction outside Sainsburys on 1/8/25 at 6.45pm during the Anti-Immigrant protest

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on Aug 2, 2025 in Crime Incidents | 0 comments A HRA member was leaving Sainsburys last night, Friday 1 August, at 6.45pm, and noticed a drone flying above the traffic light junction. She wasn’t sure whether to report it or not; she said it seemed a very odd thing to do. It was  suggested to her that she should report it to the police. She took two photos – see below. Also reported by NJ. Response received from the police and the...
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