Community safety
What is the Council doing about anti-social behaviour?
Great Yarmouth Borough Council takes the issue of anti-social behaviour (ASB) seriously and works closely with partner agencies such as the Police, the Town Centre Partnership and support services to address unacceptable behaviours. ASB is defined as behaviour that causes harassment, alarm and/or distress to a victim.
We listen to the requests from our residents and have already implemented a borough-wide ASB Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) across the whole of the Borough to allow us the tools to be able to tackle some of the more persistent issues. PSPO's are reviewed yearly and renewed, if applicable, every three years. These are implemented with a full public consultation and amendments made with public and elected member approval.
In response to local concerns, we are implementing a town centre task force to hold targeted interventions in this designated area and have held two business crime conferences which allow local businesses to link in with the Council and the Police, share their experiences and be updated on current and proposed actions.
We work closely with CCTV and have had previously secured funding through the Safer Streets Government Initiative to expand the comprehensive network of CCTV that we have across the Borough which is monitored on a 24 hour basis.
Great Yarmouth Borough Council will use a range of interventions to tackle individuals and groups causing harassment, alarm and distress making sure that any enforcement action taken is balanced with support actions.
Council officers take part in joint action days throughout the year with the Police and other agencies which are days spent on high visibility patrols out in the community tackling issues that have either been reported or are clearly visible. We are also part of the government commended local community alcohol partnership (CAP) which helps to tackle alcohol issues in the young and will work with trading standards to ensure that alcohol is not being sold to underage persons.
We will investigate reported issues of ASB within privately rented and privately owned properties. For council tenants or housing association tenants these issues would be investigated by the social landlord tenancy team.
