Next month elections will take place for a police, fire and crime commissioner plus local councillors.

Which of these individuals, who need our vote, will step forward with a radical plan to take on our elephant in the room which is the extreme antisocial behaviour of boy racers and high revving, backfiring vehicles which blight our community on a daily and nightly basis.

I think people now accept this situation as the norm.

It’s just one of those things that we don’t mention and have to put up with in and around Maldon.

But this culture is not normal and it’s not everywhere, as I can vouch for, having lived in several other places in the UK.

A cross-platform radical solution is needed which doesn’t continually push the responsibility around the table or fall back on the usual answer of lack of resources.

Tolerance of any antisocial behaviour creates confidence to commit worse behaviour.

Today’s boy racers are tomorrow’s drug dealers and violent criminals.

We have a beautiful town and surrounding area which is being unnecessarily ruined by a few individuals and we don’t have to accept this situation.

It’s not too much to hope for, to sit in our gardens peacefully on a sunny afternoon or indeed inside our homes at any time.

This problem is not confined to residential areas as I witnessed on Saturday afternoon when a high revving car with windows down, music blaring, back fired its way up the high street.

It was not only annoying, but created fear and anxiety in shoppers trying to support our high street.

David Clarke

Holloway Road, Heybridge