Issue - meetings

To consider the report of the Director of Environment and Neighbourhoods regarding an initiative aimed at combating levels of burglary in Leeds.

The Director of Environment and Neighbourhoods submitted a report providing an overview of the burglary problem in Leeds and outlining the key drivers in relation to this offence. In addition, the report sought agreement to the Leeds Burglary Reduction Strategy and approval to the allocation of £1,326,000 made available through the Community Safety Fund to support the delivery of the Leeds Burglary Reduction Programme.

In response to Members’ enquiries, officers undertook to provide Board Members with the burglary statistics broken down by Ward.

RESOLVED –

(a)  That the Leeds Burglary Reduction Strategy be agreed.

(b)  That the allocation of £1,326,000 of resources made available through the Community Safety Fund to support the delivery of the Leeds Burglary Reduction Programme be approved.

(c)  That  the annual funding allocations currently assigned to the Community Safety Fund for 2011/12 and 2012/13 be amended to make this more evenly split across the two financial years and aligned to the Burglary Reduction Programme, as outlined within section 5 of the submitted report.

(d)  That a further report on the progress made to reduce domestic burglary be submitted  to the Board in one year (June 2012).