A SURVEY of residents in Bexley's longest-running Community Safety Action Zone (CSAZ) has given it a huge thumbs-up.

People living on the Hollywood Way estate in Slade Green were surveyed this month and 93 per cent of them said work done by the police, other agencies and the residents themselves had made the area a better place to live.

And 89 per cent felt the area was safer than it was a year ago.

The survey was a repeat of one carried out in July 2004 at the start of efforts to deal with anti-social behaviour on the estate.

After the first survey the CSAZ policing team, Bexley Community Safety Partnership and the housing associations got together and put a plan in place to try and resolve the problems.

This month's survey was to find out how successful their work has been.

Resident Sue Copley, who also chairs the Woodlands Housing Co-operative on the estate, said: "In the past two years I have seen a dramatic change in the area and the residents are continually saying how peaceful things are now."

She added: "The attitude of young people has really improved and parents have worked hard to keep it this way.

"The community spirit has returned to the estate and it is now a lovely place to live."