Have Your Say Day
Created by CliveAs mentioned in my post following the RA Meeting – 20/08/’10 (penultimate paragraph), details of the forthcoming Have Your Say Day are as follows:
The Safer Gloucester Partnership are to hold a “Have Your Say” Day in Thatcham Avenue, Kingsway on Saturday 11th September to ask residents their views of life in the area and if it is affected by crime or other issues.
This is a multi-agency event and there will be staff from Gloucester City Council, Police, Councillors, Housing Associations as well as volunteers from Neighbourhood Watch and the Crime Prevention Panel.
If any resident is interested in helping with this event, please telephone Pat Dabbs at Gloucester City Council on 01452 396984 before Monday 6th September.
We are meeting at Kingsway Primary School on Valley Gardens at 9.45 am and will be able to park our cars there.
We will have a briefing and hope to be out knocking on doors and talking to people at 10.00am.
We work in pairs – no one ever calls at a property alone and we do not enter into properties – all discussions take place on the doorstep.
We will return to the school for 12.30 where we will provide lunch.
Hopefully, we may complete the exercise in the morning (dependant on numbers of volunteers), but if not, anyone who is available will go out again in the afternoon.
We are going to cover all the properties in Thatcham Avenue.
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September 1st, 2010 at 8:42 am
Why does this important need for information of this kind only involve those who reside within Thatcham Avenue. Surely, as a development, we should all be included in order to have a full understanding of how such matters affect everyone, and not just those within one street?
I hope that this will be an ongoing gathering of information from everyone who resides within the development before any formal report is issued or clearly it will not provide clarity of how all residents are affected.
September 1st, 2010 at 1:07 pm
The reason is because most of the ASB problems that happen in Kingsway seem to happen in Thatcham Ave.
September 2nd, 2010 at 12:25 pm
Hi Folks,
Very much the opposite in fact… Thatcham Avenue is statistically quite peaceful in terms of crime and ASB (apart from parking problems)
I rang Pat Dabbs for her views on this and she confirmed this, and added that – logistically they are only able to canvas a limited area, and the reason why Thatcham Avenue has been chosen is that it’s a long/key road at the heart of the community.
See this part of the gloscrimereduction.org.uk website for examples of similar surveys held in Matson, Coney Hill and Kingsholm).
The exercise is being run as part of Project Solace (see this post for more on that), so we will be seeing more input and effort from the local authorities to identify and reduce crime and ASB in Kingsway, although – as has been confirmed on numerous occasions – Kingsway Village is no worse than average for these types of problems compared to the surrounding areas; which is suprisingly good given that the roads are not yet adopted and that there are still building sites all over the place (2 things which would normally cause figures to escalate).
Pat also mentioned that Kingsway was discussed as a previous "Have Your Say Day" candidate, but – at that time – funding was only available for "deprived areas" with (historically) above-average crime & ASB problems and – since Kingsway has never fitted those criteria – they were unable to survey here. Now that those criteria are no longer restricting their choices – and given the forthcoming Project Solace – they have decided to do so.
November 26th, 2010 at 1:11 pm
The results are in.
May 10th, 2011 at 2:22 pm
Pat Dabbs sent me a copy of the Feb’ edition of the Safer Gloucester Partnership newsletter… (Apologies for the delay in adding it, yet another victim of my recent woes)!
May 23rd, 2011 at 6:53 pm
I have received the May edition of the Safer Gloucester Partnership newsletter.
To make things easier, I have included the organisation on our Community Police page, and will add all future newsletters there.
September 5th, 2011 at 3:52 pm
I received the August Newsletter today, (added to our Community Police Page as promised).
Pat Dabbs asked me to bring to your attention the Safer Gloucester Panel – Open Meeting – to be held at 7pm on Wednesday September 14th in the Civic Suite of the North Warehouse, and invite you to come along to hear Leader of Gloucester City Council, Cllr Paul James and Gloucestershire Constabulary’s Chief Inspector Richard Burge who will together be speaking about Gloucester at Night.
There will also be opportunity to ask questions of the lead officers from Safer Gloucester about the current crime situation in the city and how we are working together to address this.