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The report of the Director of Central Services
and Cabinet Member for Community Services invited Cabinet to
consider the outcome of the Anti-Social Behaviour  (ASB) Enforcement team trial during April to
September 2024 and whether the Team should be recommissioned for
2025.
 
Details of the 2024 operation, including
incidents reported, were set out at 4.1 to 4.8 of the report.
 
Cabinet welcomed the positive impact of the
ASB Enforcement Team which had resulted in a high-profile, visible
and reassuring presence to residents, local businesses, interested
parties and visitors to the Borough.
 
Due regard was given to the financial and
value for money implications with particular attention given to the
estimated cost of £83,000 of recommissioning the Team for
2025 as detailed in 6.2 of the report.   Responses from parish/town councils to an
invitation to contribute to funding the initiative were noted, as
detailed in 6.6 of the report.  A minor
amendment to the proposed period of operation during 2025 was noted
and the end date would be 2 November 2025.
 
On the grounds of improving coverage across
the Borough, Cllr Keers proposed that any operation during 2025
should be comprised of 4 officers.  This
was seconded by Cllr Boughton and supported by Cabinet.
 
RESOLVED: 
That
 

(1)           
the Anti-Social Behaviour Enforcement Team be recommissioned to
operate across the Borough for six months from Wednesday 7 May
until Sunday 2 November 2025;
 

(2)           
the Anti-Social Behaviour Enforcement Team should be comprised of
 4 Officers;
 

(3)           
the appropriate funding arrangements for recommissioning the team
be approved from:
 
                          
i.         
£37,000 to support further community initiatives in 2025/26,
as agreed by Cabinet on 10 December 2024;
                         
ii.         
£45,000 from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund 2025/26;
                       
iii.         
Any funding received from Parish or Town Councils to be deducted
from the proposed allocation from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund
2025/26.

 

(4)           
the Head of Service for Licensing, Customer Services and Community
Safety undertake the required invitation to quote in accordance
with the Contract Procedure Rules, with any final decision to
appoint the successful contractor made by the Cabinet Member for
Community Services.