Council Plan - Delivery theme 6: Safe, resilient and engaged communities

Wirral is undergoing significant change, with large-scale regeneration programmes planned across the borough. Aligned to this, Wirral Council and partners have been developing infrastructure projects to ensure Wirral continues to be safe. We will continue to work with colleagues from the National Probation Service and Merseyside Police to support their Integrated Offender Management refresh strategy. 

Linked with change is ambition to provide opportunities that help our residents to live happy, healthy, independent, and active lifestyles. We will continue to work with a wide range of providers, including commercial, voluntary and community groups as well as other public sector organisations to collectively re-imagine how we can make active and healthy opportunities a part of everyone’s life choices.

Outcomes

  • people and communities feel safer where they live, work, and socialise
  • more residents lead active and healthy lives

What we will do

  • deliver our Community Safety Strategy
  • install new CCTV cameras in consultation with Merseyside Police
  • install new alleygates
  • secure agreed Streetscene improvements
  • installation of more emergency Help Points
  • work with partners including Merseyside Police to improve community safety
  • review Sport and Physical Activity Services and transformation programme
  • develop opportunities for Community or Commercial Transfer of any assets
  • review playing pitch offer and implement Playing Pitch Strategy
  • develop and launch Sport England funded Performance monitor for Wirral
  • expand Community Partner Library offer
  • development of Moreton Library and combined Youth Hub alongside Moreton regeneration work
  • increase digitisation and accessibility to the written word eg Wirral Archives, libraries

How it will be measured

  • number of new alleygates installed
  • improved street care and cleanliness
  • incidents in anti-social behaviour
  • perception of anti-social behaviour
  • improved coverage and monitoring of CCTV
  • meet Playing Pitch Strategy targets
  • increase in the number of Community Partner Libraries
  • increased digitisation of services
  • increase in whole population physical activity levels