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Cold callers to get village ban
Cold-callers could be banned from Goosnargh
Cold-callers are to be banned from part of rural Lancashire.
Police and trading standards chiefs are looking at making parts of Goosnargh ‘no cold-calling’ zones.
It comes in response to concerns people are being targeted by doorstep sellers.
And community leaders today welcomed the move.
Police and trading standards bosses are looking at making Whittingham square and the Church Gate, Church Lane and Beacon View areas no cold calling zones.
The plans were raised at the village’s last Police and Communities Together (PACT) meeting.
A number of elderly and vulnerable people live in the areas.
Coun Ken Hudson, who represents Preston Rural North on Preston Council, said: “The problem is that any people who are now living on their own because their husbands or wives have died, they become very vulnerable to those people who tell them their roof is leaking and that sort of thing.
“It is despicable act preying on lone people who are on low incomes. I’m fully in favour of anything which stops these villains operating.”
Mike Brown, chairman of the area’s Neighbourhood Watch, said: “I think it’s a good idea.
“They don’t come bothering me but I have heard about them.”
PC Chris Banks, of Lancashire Police, said: “Because it has been so successful in Broughton, we took it to the PACT meeting and Neighbourhood Watch and said do we think we will benefit from a similar scheme in Goosnargh and they were all for it.”
Dave Reid, a PSCO for the area, said: “It is for everybody because there are a lot of people going around at the moment doing cold-calling and they are selling things that are well over-priced.”
Cold callers are defined as people who arrive at the door stop without prior invitation.
This may include traders looking for work or salesmen trying to sell products or attempting to get people to sign up for things.
No cold-calling schemes generally see signs erected around an area telling doorstep sellers they are not welcome.
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