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Anti-Social Behaviour Plan, Domestic Abuse, Hate Crime and Drug Abuse PDF 1 MB Minutes: The Committee was
presented with a presentation covering the topics Members requested an update
on following their recent Regeneration and Sustainable Development Forward Work
Programme Workshop; those topics included Anti-Social Behaviour, Domestic Abuse,
Hate Crime and Drug Abuse. Anti-Social Behaviour Members were informed
that the main focus of work this year for the Anti-Social Behaviour Team had
been around the issues in town centres, in particular the Ambassador area in
Neath town centre; the general complaints from residents were related to
on-street drinking and drug issues, and there had been a slight increase in
begging over the past few weeks which was noted to be expected at this time of
year. Officers explained that
the work in Neath town centre had started in June once lockdown had been
lifted; significant partnership work had been put in place and since then there
had been a definite improvement in work. It was mentioned that there were still
some issues in the Ambassador, however weekly meetings were taking place and
any issues were being dealt with efficiently as possible. It was noted that the
next partnership meeting was scheduled for Tuesday 15 December and in this
meeting Officers were hoping to resolve any outstanding issues of the work that
had been concluded; any further issues would be referred into the Police led
problem solving group from there-on. It was mentioned that
two operations were being put in place throughout December to target certain
aspects of Anti-Social Behaviour; Operation Shoebill which will cover retail
crime and Operation Kilmarnock which will cover street drinking. In regards to
partnership meetings, Officers had been meeting with Local Councillors in areas
where there were highlighted issues, for example a meeting recently took place
with Local Councillors, partners and the Business Improvement District (BID)
Team in Port Talbot. A mobile Police Station
was stated to had been positioned in the town centre of Port Talbot until the
end of November and following discussions with the Sargent who was based there,
improvements had been made as individuals who had carried out acts of
Anti-Social Behaviour had been identified and work was being undertaken in
order to address these particular issues. In the Briton ferry
area, the issues were noted to have been mainly around poor landlords and
issues around the properties; Environmental Health had taken on the majority of
these issues as they were relating to fly tipping and poor condition of
properties. Members were informed
that GW Logs was a big issue in the Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen area and in November there
was a court case in which individuals were successfully prosecuted for the poor
welfare of animals; there was still some work ongoing in this area as recently
additional issues had arisen, therefore Officers will be working with the Local
Councillor in the area to address those. It was stated that a partnership meeting in regards to Wern Works in Briton Ferry was due to be convened to address the emerging issues on the site; Officers were in contact National ... view the full minutes text for item 1. |
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Forward Work Programme 2020/21 PDF 69 KB Minutes: Members noted the
Regeneration and Sustainable Development Scrutiny Forward Work Programme for
2020/21, which was populated by the Committee at their recent Forward Work
Programme Workshop. As previously mentioned,
it was agreed that Domestic Abuse trends and figures be added to the Forward
Work Programme in order to obtain more information and detail from both the
specialist providers and the IDVA service from the lockdown period. |
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Forward Work Programme - Cabinet PDF 44 KB Minutes: The Cabinet Forward Work
Programme was provided to Members information purposes; the Forward Work
Programme was noted. |