As anyone living in Brighton knows, the Level has been providing a meeting place for 100s of years. It gave its name to the band and then to the political movement. Its called the Level because in a very hilly city its one of the few flat bits due to it being an old river bed.
Its home to a great many of Brighton's druggys and drunks presumably because they don't like walking up hills, I should think that coming off level ground makes them unstable and liable to fall over.
They may however occasionally make it to the lower slopes of Albion Hill or Southover St where the runner for the drugs dealer in the nearby flats will, as a good capitalist should, make sure that demand meets supply.
All year round tourists can come and see people shoplifting to buy drugs and drink and then arguing about whatever it is that drunks and druggys argue about, Brexit probably.
Sometimes in response to this the police park a van on the level. There's no one in the van, its just parked there for a week or two. This has the effect of moving all the druggys and drunks into the children's playground.
Its a thing at the moment for the local dealers to get their customers to wait at the end of various roads in Hanover or on the Lewes Road then drive by dropping off a little bit of whatever to half a dozen people in turn.
For the Police it does seem to be a case of FIDO, Fuck It Drive On as they look out of the windows of their patrol cars and so the community on the Level is left to self regulate in very much the fashion that the Levellers (the political movement not the band) championed all those years ago.
Anyone who walks through the area knows it requires the standard urban survival skill set of keeping your eyes open and DIY, Don't Involve Yourself.