Community Safety
The Steering Group is seeking someone with expertise or personal concern in this area to lead the Community Safety Subcommittee. Ideally this person should be a member of the public, and not a councillor. We are also seeking members of the public to join Councillors and members of the emergency service on the Topic Group so that its meetings can act as a forum for debate to determine public safety issues; to turn these into a range of options for positive change; and then present these options to the public so that achievable actions can be put into the Parish Plan. These options must be properly researched, based on real evidence, and they must have the support of the majority of the community to become funded actions.
If you have one of the passwords and you would like to comment on any aspect of community safety in Yateley, then please log in and click on the COMMENTS button above. If you do not have the password please send us an email. If you would like to join the Community Safety Topic Group, please let us know as soon as possible. We have councillors and representatives of the emergency services ready to take part -- but nobody from the general public. If you organised one of the now defunct NeighbourhoodWatch schemes, or you a just angry about being kept awake at night, then please volunteer.
At the Annual Town Meeting (10 May 2006) there was a lively themed debate about antisocial behaviour. Members of the public from the Village Way area were very critical of the police, Hart District Council and Yateley Town Council.
The Community Planning process has been set up by government to enable members of the public to have their say, and participate in the process of achieving change in their community. This is a completely new concept for most people - who pay their taxes and then expect officialdom to sort out planning for the present and the future. If offialdom does not conform with their wishes the public expect to make changes by complaint (eg at Town Meetings) and by objections (eg to planning inquiries. Community Planning is thus a sea-change in local government, and many smaller communitiest throughout the country, who can all meet together to grasp this new concept, have seized the opportunity to start to plan their own futures.
The Parish Plan process is not run by local goverment and councillors, it is run for and by local people. Obviously local councillors do, and should, take part since they are the elected representatives of the people. Community Planning is a methodology whereby officialdom can listen to what you, Mrs & Mrs Yateley want to say. Please take this opportunity.
Yateley is in the District with the lowest DEPRIVATION INDEX in the country. The Crime index which is part of this 'global' index, and shows Yateley as a very low crime area, although some of the 13 areas of Yateley for which statistics are available, have a higher crime rate than others. Details are on the Market Town Health Check. If Yateley people are seen to be so unconcerned that they are not willing to serve as volunteers on this Topic Group, it is very unlikely any positive changes will be made.
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at 2:35 pm on May 22, 2006
Feedback 060009 (by email) 2nd part: Yateley desperately needs now more play areas for children - better designed and protected from the menace of thugs, litter louts and 'firestarters' that live in the area.
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at 2:38 pm on May 22, 2006
Response to 060009 by PJT: Your request for more play areas is also a distinct possibility. The English Nature 'delivery plan' to enable more new housing development, whilst protecting the habitat of the 3 rare birds and other rare species on Yateley Common, currently calls for completely new Public Open Space. This will be financed by developers who want to build in Zone 2 in Yateley. Where this new open space will be, and even if suitable land can be found, is currently the subject of an investigation being carried out by consultants for South East England Regional Assembly. Hart and the Blackwater Valley Countryside Partnership have already been consulted.
The second part of your comment about protection of play areas from vandalism is much more difficult to achieve. Both Hart and the Town Council have spent money replacing vandalised equipment. We hope the solution will be found by the Community Safety Topic Group, by treating the problem at source. The Steering Group is well aware of the problem without standing at KFS or Monteagle Lane. A group of residents from Village Way made the problems in their area very apparent at the recent Annual Town Meeting, and we all live in Yateley. The local police are also well aware of the problem.
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at 2:46 pm on May 22, 2006
Feedback 060009 (by email) 3rd part: Yateley desperately needs now more traffic calming measures, especially along Hall Lane, Vigo Lane and Monteagle Lane where people constantly speed.
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at 2:48 pm on May 22, 2006
Response to 060009(3) by PJT: There were several individual complaints at the May Fayre from residents about the speed of traffic on Hall Lane and Monteagle Lane. You add Vigo Lane to this list. In my email reply to you I said it is something for our Transport Services Topic Group to look at. In fact I now think it is a Communuity Safety issue.
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