Bradley Stoke Safer Stronger Community Group

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Your local Safer Stronger Community Group needs you!

South Gloucestershire's 20 Safer Stronger Community Groups are all about working together to improve your local community. The groups also enable you to have your say about the services that your community receives.

These groups have been set up as part of the Neighbourhood Policing Model and South Gloucestershire Council's Community Engagement initiative.  Their members include people who live and work in the area and representatives from the local police, Avon Fire & Rescue, Primary Care Trust, South Gloucestershire Council, the Town & Parish Council and other local organisations. The aim is to:

• work together to ensure that local communities are safe and pleasant places to live, work and play
• give local people a greater voice and influence over local decisions and the priorities of the service providers
• fund and support a number of initiatives that help the local community, such as shop-radio schemes, CCTV, Community Speedwatch, young people's and older people's projects, and community engagement projects.

The next meeting of Bradley Stoke Safer Stronger Group will be on Tuesday 26th January 2010 at 19.00, Holy Trinity Church, Broad Croft, Bradley Stoke, BS32 0BD.

The next Safer Stronger Initiative Grant Fund round will open in April 2010.

Priorities identified at meeting held on 27th October 2009

Anti-social behaviour - Retail Outlets

Proposed Actions: Police to look at management of Halloween and Bonfire Night celebrations and monitor alcohol sales in the locality with particular age groups at local retail outlets.                                

Anti-social behaviour - North side of Bradley Stoke/Woodlands Lane

Proposed Actions: Residents should let the police know when and where incidents are taking place so that they can increase patrols in relevant areas. Continued Police patrols in these areas.       

Lighting pollution in car park - Jubilee Centre 

Proposed Actions:  The Town Council will investigate whether the lighting can be reduced.  

Street cleansing and fly tipping - generally

Residents to report so that areas can be targeted by South Gloucestershire Council. 

Information on previous priorities and outcomes can be viewed in the Minutes for each meeting. 

'If you would like to attend our meetings and require a interpreter to be present, please contact Sarah Milne 01454 864634 sarah.milne@southglos.gov.uk to make arrangements. We can also supply our Community Group minutes and publications in other community languages. '