We USED to have a very big problem here with up to 20 scrotes going down to the play park at the bottom of the esteate every friday and saturday night in the good weather, drinking and taking drugs and then making a nuisance of themselves going back up the estate when they seemed ready, we had a word with them when they were sober and drug free and received the attitude, we phoned the police quite a few times, but when a patrol car arrived they had scarpered, then we met with the police and asked them to send a bycicle team down the backs with video equipment to obtain evidence, and this was done, but due to the clear nights the srotes had moved further away so their behaviour was less noticeable even under a telescopic lens.
Then it got nasty.
My next door neighbour had things thrown at his window, came out to confront the scum, and was about to go into battle alone when his two 18 & 21 year old sons followed him out, I opened my door with a couple of mates, the house on the other side of the road opened with a few more and a couple of houses at the end of the estate did likewise and a couple of houses at the bottom of the estate had the same.
We have had no problems the last two or three years.