Project Location & Overview
This project for Great Yarmouth aimed to improve the environment in residential areas with a package of safety and crime-cutting measures, including the installation of street-lighting, CCTV, and the employment of a Community Safety Officer.
The Safer Streets Fund was a government initiative that supported measures proven to cut crime. Such measures included locked gates around alleyways, increased street-lighting, the installation of CCTV, and general improvement of local environments. The third round of funding, which supported the Great Yarmouth project, had the additional specific goal of helping make women and vulnerable people feel safer on the streets.
Key Facts
Client: Great Yarmouth Borough Council
Staff lead: Steve Logan
Location: Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Sector: Local Authority
Project length: October 2021 - March 2022
Project cost: £240k
Project value: Improving the environment in residential areas to boost safety and introduce crime-cutting measures, helping people feel safer on the street
The Great Yarmouth Borough Council identified The Rows, which run southwest and west from King Street, as a key area that would greatly benefit from environmental improvements to achieve these aims, and this formed the basis of the successful grant application.
The objectives of this project were to:
- Help residents, particularly women and vulnerable people, feel safer in and around The Rows
- Ensure that the historical importance of The Rows was maintained
- Procure specialist cleaning equipment
- Undertake a clean-up of The Rows
- Install additional lighting as required
- Perform painting and general improvement works so that people felt safe moving through The Rows
- Employ a Community Safety Officer
The project was seen as complementary to the £13.7m Future High Streets funding and £20.1m Town Deal funding, which were used to revitalise the town centre and support regeneration of the wider area.
Services We Provided
• Project management as client
• Stakeholder engagement and consultation
• Report writing and governance support
• Programme management
• Governance reporting
• Risk management
• Budgetary controls
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