Ref: PR 2370
Date: 23/10/2009 
 
A national campaign to address crime and anti-social behaviour in our communities is being supported by Wakefield Council and the Wakefield Together partnership for the third year running.

The Not in my Neighbourhood Week runs from November 2-6 and is marked by events organised both by the Council and by Wakefield Together.

The campaign is part of the Government’s Crime Reduction initiative and focuses on increasing awareness in local communities about what the Council, police and other agencies do to tackle crime and anti-social behaviour, increasing public confidence and encouraging people to work with public services to make their communities safer.

The week will demonstrate how agencies including Wakefield Council, West Yorkshire Police, Wakefield and District Housing and other agencies are working in partnership to tackle the problems of crime, alcohol and anti-social behaviour.

Cllr Olivia Rowley, the Council’s Cabinet Member for Community Safety and Cohesion said: “We are supporting the campaign not just with events in the week itself but with activities in the run-up to the national launch. Not in my Neighbourhood week is a great opportunity to take a stand against crime and anti-social behaviour by making sure our communities are safe and happy places for us all to live.”

During Not in my Neighbourhood Week, the Council’s Environment Services will be implementing its new Neighbourhood Action Programme. This programme is aimed at delivering environmental improvements within each of the 45 neighbourhood impact areas over the next 12 months, with our teams spending a week in each area.

Throughout the week, action team will be busy in Kinsley, Fitzwilliam and Agbrigg undertaking tasks to tackle environmental and anti-social issues identified with our partners and through local consultation.

These projects will include:

• vegetation management of land at Wakefield Road Fitzwilliam to separate the road from railway land, improving public safety;
• clearing an unsightly overgrown and littered area of land at Brownhill Crescent, Kinsley;
• clearing debris from the beck to the rear of Redhill Drive and Kinsley House Crescent, Kinsley to reduce the potential of flooding local residence,
• renewing the broken fence around Agbrigg Park to improve public safety and
• clearing debris and unsightly graffiti from the Anderton Street, Agbrigg.

A session on environment crime will be held at Castleford High School on November 3 as part of a multi-agency Safer School Partnership event.

Wakefield Council’s Kinsley and Fitzwilliam neighbourhood management team is organising a week of activities from October 26 during the schools’ half-term break which include three community litter picks and dog warden patrols

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