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Horsforth: Public gets across the safety message
Horsforth has spoken up about how it thinks life can be improved.
Project Horsforth is a pioneering scheme aimed at giving local people a voice in making the town safer.
Earlier this year police took to the streets and spoke to over 500 householders.
Homes in Broadway, Town Street, Low Lane and surrounding streets were targeted after police surveys showed that people in those areas had low confidence in community safety.
And local people were able to put their concerns to police, housing staff and councillors at a meeting on Saturday.
The survey had shown that people's key safety concerns were:
* Teenagers hanging around the streets;
* Noisy vehicles, dangerous drivers and boy racers;
* Drunk and rowdy behaviour in public places;
* Vandalism;
* Environmental issues such as dog fouling;
* Lack of visible police;
* Inconsiderate and illegal parking and;
* Poor lighting.
Insp Richard Coldwell said: "Surveys showed that people in this area had low confidence but really they shouldn't have felt like that because it is not a bad area.
"After speaking to them it was obvious that we needed to do some work."
Local councillor Brian Cleasby (Lib Dem, Horsforth) said: "The meeting went very well. It was a great tribute to everyone involved."
He added: "The reaction was very positive and a lot of work was picked up by various agencies. People were keen to talk and they must have been comfortable with the whole thing."
The results from the meeting will be distributed to the agencies that deal with the problems so they can be resolved.
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