Decision details

Further to Minute No. 37, 25^th July 2018, the Director of Communities and Environment submitted a report which presented the Council’s Safer Leeds Community Safety Strategy for the period 2018-2021, for the purposes of endorsement and a recommendation to Council that it formally adopted the proposed strategy.

Regarding the priority around improving road safety, reducing road casualty, enforcement of speed limits and vehicular related anti-social behaviour, the Board received assurance that the Executive Member for ‘Communities’ had undertaken to progress this as a priority, which included liaison with West Yorkshire Police and also Community Committee ‘Community Safety Champions’.

Responding to a Member’s enquiry regarding the continued role of the ‘Managed Approach’ towards prostitution, it was noted that work continued to be undertaken with the local community and businesses on this matter in order to work through any issues which were being experienced, with confirmation being received that the ‘Managed Approach’ was continuing.

RESOLVED - That approval be given to formally endorse the Safer Leeds ‘Community Safety Strategy’ for 2018-21, as appended to the submitted report, and that the Strategy be referred to full Council with a recommendation that it is formally adopted by the Council.

(The matters referred to within this minute, given that they were decisions being made in accordance with the Budget and Policy Framework Procedure Rules, were not eligible for Call In, as Executive and Decision Making Procedure Rule 5.1.2 states that the power to Call In decisions does not extend to those decisions being made in accordance with the Budget and Policy Framework Procedure Rules)