Cameras to catch more flytippers
CITY COUNCIL AWARDED ANOTHER £750K TO TACKLE NUISANCE
CAMERAS are to be installed at flytipping hotspots across Derby as part of a series of measures aimed at reducing antisocial behaviour.
Derby City Council has been awarded almost £750,000 from the Government’s latest Safer Streets Fund, bringing the city’s total funding allocation to £1.7 million to pay for a variety of measures.
The Safer Streets Fund was launched by the Government to invest in initiatives which target neighbourhood crime, violence against women and girls, and antisocial behaviour in areas across England and Wales. Other Derby initiatives include improvement and installation of CCTV and street lighting in Arboretum, Normanton, Derwent and Alvaston.
Automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras will also be set up to reduce vehicle crime, neighbourhood crime and antisocial behaviour.
Flytipping has long been a problem in an around the city and carries a fine of up to £50,000 and up to six months’ imprisonment on conviction. The new camera locations have yet to be decided and announced.
The most recently-published figures showed that fly tipping in the city had gone up by 26%, with almost 1,500 more incidents reported between April 2020 and March 2021 compared with the previous 11-month period.
Previously, using money from the original funding first given in 2020, the council has launched the Safe Derby campaign, to help keep women and girls safe on the streets, which saw the delivery of active bystander training and the Safe Places project, and Get Home Safely workshops; additional streetlighting and CCTV cameras installed in and around Alvaston Park, Chaddesden Park, Markeaton Park, Racecourse Park, 12 new cameras in the West End of Derby, and in several city subways and the city centre and an upgrade of the city’s CCTV control room. The council will be working with local partners to deliver the schemes, including Derbyshire police, Down to Earth, Engineered Learning, Derbyshire Police and Crime Commissioner, Empowered
Youth, Community One and Keep Britain Tidy.
Councillor Matthew Eyre, council cabinet member for community development, place and tourism said: “We are absolutely committed to our ongoing efforts to tackle the on-street and neighbourhood issues that matter the most to residents across Derby, as well as improve our early intervention approach.”
There are also plans to use the money for more preventative education to support young people at risk of offending and to support a review and regulation of poor housing. It is expected that the latest initiatives will be delivered by September 2024.
You can report fly-tipping incidents to the city council www. derby.gov.uk/environment-andplanning/street-care-cleaning/flytipping/
We are absolutely committed to our ongoing efforts to tackle the... issues that matter the most to residents.
Cllr Matthew Eyre