Decision details

Avon and Somerset OPCC have been awarded a Home Office grant and have allocated £230,000 of the grant to Bristol City Council (BCC). The grant has been allocated to allow BCC to implement agreed interventions that address ASB and SV incidents that are occurring in specific hotspots.
The BCC element of this coordinated approach includes detached youth work and mentoring, re-deployable CCTV and community led action.
The priority areas have been identified by Avon and Somerset Police and the OPCC and are as follows: East St, BedminsterMorrisons; Hartcliffe; Newquay Rd, Knowle West; Cabot Circus; Stokes Croft; Queen Charlotte St; St Augustine’s Parade; Gloucester Rd; Queen’s Rd/Triangle; Park St; Corn St;Jamaica St; Broad Quay; Union/Fairfax St; The Podium, Broadmead; Marlborough St Bus Station; Pero’s Bridge; Broad Weir; Horsefair; Wine St; Stapleton Rd.
All of the activity that this funding pays for is intended to address ASB and Serious Violence incidents in these localities.

Accepting this funding will result in significant resource being brought into the City within the specified areas. This will in turn result in an opportunity to bolster detached youth work provision in areas specified, improve CCTV and engage and utilise the communities resulting in strengthening social action. All of which will have a positive impact on preventing and reducing serious violence and ASB.

An alternative option would be to decline this offer of Home Office funding and in turn do not deliver on the crime prevention and crime reduction interventions as outlined above.