Decision details
Cold Calling Controlled Zones
Decision Maker: Executive Member For Neighbourhood Services and Advisory Panel
Decision status: Decision Made
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: Yes
Purpose:
Purpose of report: 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.
Members are asked to: To approve an approach to the development of
Cold Calling Controlled Zones.
Decision:
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.
Publication date: 07/12/2007
Date of decision: 06/12/2007
Decided at meeting: 06/12/2007 - Executive Member For Neighbourhood Services and Advisory Panel
Effective from: 11/12/2007
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