Introduction

Thank you for finding the time to complete this consultation, your answers are important to us, they are confidential and will inform the work of Wrexham and Flintshire’s Public Service Boards.

Public Service Boards are a partnership of organisations that help provide public services.  They include the Council, the Health Board, the Fire and Rescue Service, Natural Resources Wales, the Police, The National Probation Service and Community Rehabilitation Company, Public Health Wales, Coleg Cambria, A.V.O.W, and Welsh Government. 

A smaller number of resients replied to the consultation than the one previously. As a response to some of the comments received some mitigating factors have been made.  The comments made by residents were reported in a report to the Wrexham Executive Board with proposals which were agreed on the 9th March 2021.

The findings of the consultation were reported to Wrexham Council's Executive board who on the 9th March made a decision to make the Public Space Protection Order (PSPO) at all 8 locations proposed.

Consulting on our plans to reshape Council services to meet the financial challenge and the budget proposals for 2021/22.

The Safer Streets Fund is a £25m fund, available to Police and Crime Commissioners (PCC) in England and Wales in 2020/21.

PCCs were asked to work with partners, to design and deliver local crime prevention plans with the outcome of reducing acquisitive crimes through prevention, therefore making residents feel safer.

North Wales Bids

Following analysis of the areas in North Wales that met the criteria of being particularly affected by acquisitive crime, two bids were submitted to the fund, one being Queensway in Wrexham.

In July 2020 the Home Office announced that the North Wales bids were both successful, together with another 50 across England and Wales. The project for Queensway was awarded £550,000.

Queensway Allocation

The majority of residents who returned their views supported the proposals.  Some mitigation would need to be found to some of the issues raised and alternative routes highlighted.

Following the consultation and discussions with legal, advice received was to seek a Public Space Protection Order (PSPO) to Alleygate the proposed areas. So another round of consultation will follow on the proposals,  it was decided however to keep all proposed areas within the second consultation.

We are members of the ‘Senedd yr Ifanc’ Wrexham Youth Parliament. The Senedd yr Ifanc is a group of young people aged 11-25 with a connection to Wrexham.  We work on improving issues that matter to young people while giving them a voice. We as a focus group have come together to work on a project with CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services) in Wrexham.

CAMHS is a child and adolescent mental health service, they support children and young people who have difficulties with their emotional or behavioural wellbeing including eating disorders, autistic spectrum disorder, attention deficit hypersensitive disorder (ADHD), depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and psychosis.

This survey will provide us with valuable information, which will be used to evaluate our services during the Covid-19 lockdown.

The Climate Emergency is one of the most important topics of our time and one which we must address quickly. The Welsh Government declared a Climate Emergency in Wales, thereby setting ambitious plans for the public sector to be carbon neutral by 2030.

The Council has also declared a Climate and Ecological Emergency which will target the decarbonisation of Council operations and promote the protection and enhancement of its natural environment.  Full Council approved a motion to develop a clear Decarbonisation Plan for the authority. The Plan will set an agenda and programme of works for creating a ‘carbon positive’ organisation.

We are asking you the community, for your feedback, ideas, discussion points that will ultimately feed into the creation and establishment of our Decarbonisation plan. We know that our work will centre on the 4 main categories highlighted, and we will give you a bit of background to each one. However;  we welcome your thoughts and ideas for each topic, and how we can create exciting and innovative projects,  that will not only support the aims and objectives of our plan, but also support the protection and enhancement of our natural environment for future generations.  

Reviewing Local Discretions which are available as part of the scheme.

To ascertain what people want from future events held online

The questionnaire needs to go out immediately after such event in future. 

Of those who did reply, they appeared to have enjoyed the event and made a few suggestions for future events. 

Will be taken into consideration for future events organised online. 

Reducing Climate Change was the top priority for the Senedd Yr Ifanc in their 2019 Ballot voted by  477 young people (27.3%) . To find out which area of reducing Climate Change the young people wanted the Senedd to focus on they created a Poll, they identified 6 areas were Climate Change can be reduced:

Sources of Food, Protecting Nature, Housing and Buildings, Recycling, Transport and Energy Sources.

Protecting Nature came out on top, voted on by 36.36% of the young people.

Reducing Climate Change was the top priority for the Senedd Yr Ifanc in their 2019 Ballot. To find out which area of reducing Climate Change the young people wanted the Senedd to focus on they created a Poll, they identified 6 areas where Climate Change can be reduced. Protecting Nature came out on top, voted on by 36.36% of the young people.

Next they asked which area the Senedd could make the most impact on in Wrexham.

Clean Up: community clean ups to support protecting wildlife came out on top with 28.14% of the votes.

The Senedd yr Ifanc aim is to support community clean ups and improve the environment when safe to do so ( Covid), a mini film supporting keeping your community clean and reducing single use plastic is being developed.