Agenda item

Report of the Director of the Built Environment and presentation by the Community Safety Officer.

The Committee received a report of the Director of the Built Environment that informed Members of the relevant provisions of the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014. The Community Safety Officer provided Members with a presentation on the Community Trigger aspect, which was introduced on 20 October 2014 as a statutory requirement under Part 1, Schedule 4 of the Act.

The Community Safety Officer advised Members that the Community Trigger allowed victims of anti-social behaviour to challenge the response from their local authority by way of a multi-agency anti-social behaviour case review, if certain criteria for a threshold were met. The Community Trigger threshold consisted of at least three separate qualifying complaints within the last six months. In response to a Members question, the Community Safety Officer advised that that process was retrospective as complaints from before 20 October 2014 could currently qualify but the threshold had not been met by anyone yet.

In response to question from the Chairman, the Assistant Director of Environmental Health and Public Protection advised that the Community Trigger would act as a safety net for licensing issues within the City of London. The new Act had condensed the previous legislation and made it more specific, which had allowed officers to issue Community Protection Notices to licensees for anti-social behaviour caused outside their premises as well as closure powers in extreme circumstances.

RECEIVED – That the relevant provisions of the Anti-Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 be noted.