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Completed Neighbourhood Priorities

• Parking issues   Show details
  Yet again the September - December 2010 Neighbourhood Priority Surveys showed that parking is still an issue with Chiwell residents, therefore it will remain a Cluster priority. The roads highlighted are: Clarence Road, junction of Attenborough Lane and Crofton Road, Eskdale Drive, Chilwell Road, Norfolk Avenue and all parking around schools.
  This priority will be reassessed in March 2011
  
  Our Response
  With regards to the issues of parking/traffic around schools we have been made aware of issues at a number of locations and are working to address them in line with legislation. Patrols continue around identified areas and advisory letters are issued, in partnership with the schools in many cases, to registered keepers of vehicles found to be causing a nuisance.
  A number of drivers have been spoken with and warned regarding the manner of their driving, and parking, at school times. We are also liaising with the borough and county councils seeking to implement a permanent solution to the problems. A high visibility presence will continue during problem times.
  The Local Beat Team would like to thank Chetwynd Road School Council. Recently pupils and parents took it upon themselves to challenge those parents who park on Chetwynd Road in order to establish the reasons why they were doing this. Parents were asked to fill a questionnaire in and we would like to thank those parents who completed one.
  This was an initiative run by the children of Chetwynd Road and it shows that they take their safety seriously and are doing everything they can to ensure that they remain safe.
  
  March 2010
  
  The Local Beat Team have conducted patrols outside each of the schools on various occasions. The vast majority of motorists attending the schools have parked appropriately and have not caused an obstruction to other road users. However, the Local Beat Team are aware that this considerate parking does not occur at all times.
  As such, the Local Beat Team will also be conducting plain clothes patrols outside of the schools in order to identify those motorists who park inconsiderately causing a nuisance to other road users and potentially causing a danger to pupils attending schools.
  The Local Beat Team are also liasing with Nottinghamshire County Council to examine the road markings outside each school and to establish whether any improvements can be made.
  
  The Local Beat Team have conducted patrols on Clarence Road, Crofton Road and Attenborough Lane. Although there have been a number of vehicles seen parking on the pavements, none have been causing an obstruction and no warning notices or fixed penalty notices have been issued.
  Nottinghamshire County Council have previously been contacted to examine whether parking restrictions can be implemented around the junction of Attenborough Lane and Clarence Road.
  
  
  If you have to use a car to take your children to school then please ensure that you park sensibly and do not cause an obstruction to other road users and residents.
  The safety of every child that attends a school within Toton is paramount.
  
  
  Our Solution
  Sppeding and parking priorties have been combined so that we can have ASB as an issue.
• Antisocial behaviour   Show details
  Areas identified through the surveys show that groups of young adults are gathering around Cator Lane Recreation Park, Cator Lane North, Inham Road, Attenborough Nature Reserve, Long Lane Park, Manor Park and Mountbatten way specifically around evening and weekends when youngsters are not at school or in further education.
  
  Our Response
  March 2010
  
  The Local Beat Team have been conducting patrols of both Manor Park, Portland Road and Mountbatten Way Park. Also Long Lane, Attenborough. On the majority of occasions there have been no youths on either of the parks causing anti social behaviour.
  Also, there have been no incidents reported of any anti social behaviour occurring at either park.
  
  Our Solution
  
  At the December 2010 Pact meeting it was decided that from the results of the Neighbourhood Priority Surveys carried out in the Chilwell Cluster area that ASB would no longer be one of the top 3 priorities at this time. However ASB is an issue that can really effect a persons well being and if we are aware of ASB issues in the area we will do our best to come up with a problem solving approach.
  
• Anti Social Behaviour   Show details
  Neighbourhood priority surveys carried out between October and December 2011 have shown that Anti social behaviour is still a concern for residents in the Chilwell Cluster. It was therefore agreed at the 'priority setting meeting' held on the 18th January 2012 that ASB would remain a priority.
  The locations for ASB are; Long Lane Park, parts of Attenborough nature reserve, the park on Mountbatten Way, Plums Off Licence, College House Junior School, Methodist Church on Pearson Avenue and Barncroft.
  
  Our Response
  January 2012 update
  We are pleased to report that ASB is down yet again by 23%. Several warrants have been carried out recently on Chilwell East and West which were very successful resulting in drugs and stolen property being seized and the perpetrators being arrested.
  Operation Animism continues to be carried out by the neighbourhood Policing Team every Friday and Saturday evenings in the identified hot spot areas, as well as the local beat team carrying out high visibility patrols throughout their regular shifts. Persons found or known to be causing ASB in the area are being dealt with strongly.
  
  September 2011 update
  We are pleased to report that anti social behaviour is down 34% compared to the same period for the previous year (June - September 2010) for the Chilwell cluster.
  
  Operation Animism has successfully been running for the last few months on Broxtowe North, the neighbourhood policing teams have targeted hot spot areas taking names of all persons found in these areas and dealt with any issues of ASB strongly. We have found that within a few nights of this action the problems have seized. Victims of ASB have been regularly visited and updated with actions taken. Areas are agreed and discussed every week and are based on calls received by the public and intelligence submitted by the neighbourhood policing team.
  
  June update
  Op Animism is now up and running on Broxtowe South, this operation is carried out every Friday and Saturday afternoon and evening by officers from the Neighbourhood Policing team. The team are tasked to patrol all the ASB hotspots in the area, these areas are identified from calls made by the public and current intelligence – taking into account social events, school holidays, protest etc.
  
  High visibility patrols are to be carried out by both local beat officers and response officers in problem areas.
  Working in partnership with the Council, we may issue warning letters to parents where younger members of the community are identified as repeat offenders of anti social behaviour. This is what we refer to as the AIMS project (ASB Intervention and Monitoring Strategy). This is best described as a traffic light system, which identifies how many incidents the individual has been involved in each week and highlights when ASB letters are sent out by the ASB Co-ordinator. ASB Officer Sharon Matthews works closely with the Chilwell local beat team ensuring the correct individuals are being monitored on a regular basis. This may ultimately lead to the application of an ASBO (Anti Social Behaviour Order).
  We continue to operate Operation Broadside, which is our operation to tackle anti social behaviour. Details of persons dealt with are logged. Letters are sent to parents and also the details are shared with Broxtowe Borough Council should further interventions be required (AIMS).
  Shops in the local area will be visited to remind them of their obligations regarding the sale of alcohol to minors and will be subject of Test Purchasing operations together with Trading Standards.
  
  This priority will be reassessed after the next ‘priority setting meeting’ which is held on the 18th April 2012.
  Our Solution
  ASB has not been shown to be a main concern at this time according to the neighbourhood priority surveys carried out between January and March 2012. ASB will continue to be a Police priority and all areas where ASB is a problem will be targeted by Operation Animism.