You Decide! at Kingsley Hall (LAP 6) 2009
Thank you to all 92 residents who took part in
You Decide! at Kingsley Hall, Powis Road, Bromley-by-Bow on
Saturday 14 March.
During the event participants heard about 33
extra council services and projects available to buy to
improve their neighbourhood and other residents’ lives.
Find out more about the services and
projects participants chosen from to help improve local areas.
(pdf, 890 kb)
Here’s how you decided
With the £280,000 of council cash - £140,000
for each ward Mile End East and Bromley-by-Bow participants voted
on the best way to spend the money to benefit their local
community.
Here are the extra council services and
projects participants wanted in the order they were voted for
them:
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Youth Inclusion Programme
This programme will help to prevent 75
teenagers, age 13-17 year olds, at risk of getting on the wrong
side of the law.
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£50,000
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Youth Inclusion and Support
Panel
The panel will work with 30 children aged 8-13
who have become know to the police or council’s youth offending
team and may have anti-social behaviour warnings or acceptable
behaviour contracts.
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£35,000
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Early GCSE in Mother
Tongue
This will mean children from the age of 11 can
learn languages such as: Bengali, Arabic Turkish, Chinese and Urdu
and take their GCSE exam early.
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£35,000
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Zero Tolerance Drug & Crime
Operations
This will fund targeted drug, crime and
anti-social behaviour operations in known crime hotspots in the
area. The funding will allow the Safer Neighbourhood Teams to
maintain daily uniform visibility and work on proactive
operations.
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£35,000
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Extended Learning (per
school)
This will provide out of school study support
to cover a wide range of learning activities outside normal lesson
time. Young people can participate in this voluntarily.
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£18,000
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Permanently Improving CCTV
Coverage
There are various options to improve CCTV
coverage. Some allow real time live monitoring at CCTV control
centre. Some systems record locally and are accessed by CCTV
control room to download footage of crimes etc.
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£35,000
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Improved Street Lighting (per
street)
This means lighting will be improved. Trees
will be cut back were they block the light, lanterns will be
cleaned and light bulbs replaced before they fail.
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£10,000
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Designing Out Crime
This project would mean redesigning areas of
estates to make it safer and reduce local crime and tackling
anti-social behaviour (ASB). Changes could include, improved
lighting, removal of natural seating where ASB occurs.
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£40,000
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Extended Learning (per
school)
This will provide out of school study support
to cover a wide range of learning activities outside normal lesson
time. Young people can participate in this voluntarily.
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£18,000
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Additional
StreetSweeper (per month)
This project will provide an extra sweeper who
would clean private, publicly owned areas and areas with no
identifiable owner. The street sweeper will work in the most untidy
areas as agreed in consultation with residents.
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£2,500
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Shrub Beds (30 metres)
This project will provide 30 meters of new and
refurbished shrub beds in parks and open spaces. It will include,
various bulbs, roses, ground cover and climbing plants.
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£1,000
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