Issue - meetings

This report is to update Members on the introduction of Cold Calling Controlled Zones in the City of York and to seek approval for a staged approach in widening the adoption of zones across the city.

Advice of the Advisory Panel

That the Executive Member be advised:

(i)           That requests from residents, the police and other interested parties to set up additional zones be responded to by Trading Standards officers, and the existing work programme and assessment of the impact of the initial zones on doorstep crime be taken into account in further expansion of the scheme;

(ii)     That a further report be brought to Members within 6 months with a review of the scheme.  

Decision of the Executive Member

RESOLVED:That the advice of the Advisory Panel be accepted and endorsed.

REASON:This option enables officers to develop the zones in response to demand, in a prioritised and controlled manner within the existing work programme.  Additional Cold Calling Controlled Zones will be extended once the impact of doorstep crime and residents’ concerns about doorstep crime has been assessed.

Members received a report which updated them on the introduction of Cold Calling Controlled Zones in the City of York and sought approval for a staged approach in widening the adoption of zones across the city.

The report presented two options for consideration:

·  Option 1 – Officers to respond to requests from residents, the police and other interested parties to set up additional zones, with the impact of existing zones first being assessed by measuring doorstep crime and residents’ concern about doorstep crime, and any additional zones being introduced on a phased and prioritised basis over time within the existing work programme.

·  Option 2 – Officers to respond to requests to establish additional zones and to proactively introduce these before the full impact of the pilot zones has been evaluated.

Members requested that signs be attached to existing street furniture and officers confirmed that this approach was now being taken.

Advice of the Advisory Panel

That the Executive Member be advised:

(i)           That requests from residents, the police and other interested parties to set up additional zones be responded to by Trading Standards officers,  using their discretion and taking into account the impact on their existing work programme and assessment of the impact of existing zones;¹

(ii)     That a further report be brought to Members within 6 months with a review of the progress of the scheme.²

Decision of the Executive Member

RESOLVED:That the advice of the Advisory Panel be accepted and endorsed.

REASON:This option enables officers to develop additional zones in response to demand, in a prioritised and controlled manner within the existing work programme, taking into account the impact of existing zones.