{"id":211768,"date":"2025-10-19T21:12:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T21:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/211768\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T21:12:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T21:12:19","slug":"longton-tesco-to-put-stop-to-boy-racers-by-shutting-car-park-after-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/211768\/","title":{"rendered":"Longton Tesco to put stop to boy racers by shutting car park after hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police team up with council and supermarket chain to take action after Stoke-on-Trent Live puts spotlight on long-running issue<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2_longtontp.jpg\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Staffordshire Police outside Longton Tesco<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"stokesentinel\">Longton Tesco will shut its car park after hours to deter boy racers from meeting there. Staffordshire Police has confirmed that officers have teamed up with Stoke-on-Trent City Council and the supermarket chain to tackle a problem which has been ongoing for the past decade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"stokesentinel\">Last Sunday around 40 vehicles congregated on the car park for an illegal meet before being moved on by police. The same issue <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stokesentinel.co.uk\/news\/stoke-on-trent-news\/live-updates-40-boys-racers-10581710?utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=Facebook&amp;fbclid=IwY2xjawNhnzNleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETBPbFJXdWpyNzE0bDNHREFEAR6dY6ZDP_xUweepUlidkIg923JOi0_y67EJw458jpL9br0CGhtiZkK11yHpXQ_aem_Q8LyAsQz4yFyx-O-3rqyjw#Echobox=1760741023\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"occurred again on Friday night.Link opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">occurred again on Friday night.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"stokesentinel\">To tackle the issue, officers will be supporting the closure of Tesco\u2019s car park once the supermarket is closed today (19 October). Inspector Rebecca Price, of the Stoke-on-Trent south local policing team, said: \u201cWe have teamed up with local partners to address issues that matter to local communities the most.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"stokesentinel\">\u201cWe fully support the closure of Tesco\u2019s car park after hours and anyone not on the car park legitimately will be dealt with robustly. Officers will be issuing Section 59 notices to illegal and anti-social drivers and seizing any vehicle which has already received a notice in the last 12 months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"stokesentinel\"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stokesentinel.co.uk\/newsletter-preference-centre\/?view=Solus&amp;mailingListId=ff7c6297-a86c-40d6-abb7-01d5b0c1b3e4&amp;utm_source=solusarticle\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"[object Object]Link opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Get daily headlines and breaking news emailed to you &#8211; it\u2019s FREE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police team up with council and supermarket chain to take action after Stoke-on-Trent Live puts spotlight on long-running&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,91119,4367,723,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-211768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-longton","tag-stoke","tag-tesco","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}