Making streets safer

Work is continuing to ensure the £400,000 of funding that Erewash Borough Council received from the Homes Office’s Safer Street Fund is utilised in key locations in Ilkeston.

Re-deployable CCTV cameras have already been purchased and work is on-going to look at where these are best placed.

Erewash Borough Council has been working with partners to tackle antisocial behaviour in the outside areas of Rutland Sports Park in Ilkeston.

Earlier this year there was some vandalism at the sports park which led Derbyshire Police and partners to take action.

Weekly outreach work is now in place to engage the young people that gather at the park.

Organisations involved in this include the council’s Community Health and Wellbeing Development Team, Parkside High, and youth workers from Derbyshire County

The teams delivering the work have found that although a large group of youths have been regularly gathering at Rutland, the majority are there to meet with friends and have enjoyed the activities that are being provided.