Agenda and minutes

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Contact: Robert Flintoft  Scrutiny Officer

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Items
No. Item

15.

Declarations of Interest

At this point in the meeting, members are asked to declare any personal interests not included on the Register of Interests, any prejudicial interests or any disclosable pecuniary interests which they may have in respect of business on this agenda.

 

Minutes:

Members were asked to declare, at this point in the meeting,

any personal interests not included on the Register of Interests

or any prejudicial or discloseable pecuniary interest that they

might have in respect of the business on the agenda.

 

Cllr Barker declared a prejudicial interest as a candidate for the North Yorkshire Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner.

16.

Minutes pdf icon PDF 119 KB

To approve and sign the minutes of the Housing and Community Safety Scrutiny Committee meeting held on 16 February 2021.

Minutes:

Resolved: That the minutes of the meeting held on 16 February 2021 be approved and signed as a correct record.

17.

Public Participation

At this point in the meeting members of the public who have

registered to speak can do so. Members of the public may speak

on agenda items or on matters within the remit of the committee.

Please note that our registration deadlines have changed to 2

working days before the meeting, in order to facilitate the

management of public participation at remote meetings. The

deadline for registering at this meeting is Thursday 15 April

2021.

 

To register to speak please visit

www.york.gov.uk/AttendCouncilMeetings to fill in an online

registration form. If you have any questions about the registration

form or the meeting please contact the Democracy Officer for the

meeting whose details can be found at the foot of the agenda.

 

Webcasting of Remote Public Meetings

Please note that, subject to available resources, this remote

public meeting will be webcast including any registered public

speakers who have given their permission. The remote public

meeting can be viewed live and on demand at

www.york.gov.uk/webcasts.

 

During coronavirus, we've made some changes to how we're

running council meetings. See our coronavirus updates

(www.york.gov.uk/COVIDDemocracy) for more information on

meetings and decisions.

Minutes:

It was reported that there had been one registration to speak under the Council’s Public Participation Scheme.

 

Steve Parrott raised concerns of anti-social driving in Woodthorpe. He noted a lack of consistent support from the police and that 95 Alive were uninterested in concerns raised. He requested that the Council does not undertake another traffic survey in the area but to take actions to deal with anti-social driving.

 

18.

Safer York Partnership Bi-Annual Report pdf icon PDF 193 KB

This report is the bi-annual performance report for Safer York Partnership.

Additional documents:

Minutes:

The Committee were joined by Lindsey Butterfield from North Yorkshire Police and chair of Safter York Partnership and Andrew Blades from North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service. Members considered the report and were provided with an update on policing and COVID Support Marshalls work during lockdown. The Committee were also updated on additional funding that had been made available by government and bids that were being considered to access further funding.

 

Members enquired about river safety in the city and it was confirmed that it was a key focus for North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue. With a high number of incidents on the River Ouse, Members were updated on prevention work including training for those in the night time economy and with students. With the easing of lockdown it was noted that Fire and Rescue were responding to a rising number of secondary fires and that they expected a rise in fires with more people able to gather outdoors. It was also confirmed that due to more regular flooding, flood response work was becoming an increasing part of the work Fire and Rescue were engaged with. Members enquired about grab chains being installed on the river, while this will be considered by Fire and Rescue not all land that would require them is Council owned so would require private owners to support installing.

 

The committee were updated on how North Yorkshire Police were balancing the competing demands of COVID enforcement and business as usual. Partnership work with the Council was also highlighted with daily briefings for both COVID and non-COVID issues. It was confirmed that COVID enforcement had been largely been split with the Police enforcing when there were incidents with individuals and the Council with business in the city.

 

Anti-Social behaviour was discussed and it was expected that the number of incidents could rise as lockdown eased, due in part to indoor venues continuing to be closed, directing residents to more meetings outdoors. As well as, the potential lower tolerance because of lower quitter neighbourhoods during COIVD. Officers noted that a separate task group had been set up to focus on incidents outside of the city centre, while work was ongoing with neighbourhood Police Officers to respond to incidents.

 

The Committee discussed the domestic violence and domestic violence data within the report, the rise in Police incidents during lockdown and the Council services had not seen a similar rise. It was noted that the number of incidents did not necessarily reflect a rise in crime. Officers confirmed that the data presented in the report presented an incomplete picture of the situation and further data would be shared with the Committee. Members enquired about the provision of services and the training for Council staff. it was confirmed that additional funding and effective working with partners had allowed Council services to continue and work was being undertaken with Housing.

 

Members enquired about the rise in hate crimes and it was confirmed that they were rising in line with national trends. It  ...  view the full minutes text for item 18.

 

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