Skip to main content
Logo icon
Wealden
Conservatives

Main navigation

  • Home
  • About
  • News
  • Events
  • Get Involved
  • Our Priorities
  • Contact
  • Who's Who
Logo icon
Wealden
Conservatives
Safer Streets Hailsham
Safer Streets Hailsham
A safer Hailsham

Wealden uses Government funds to tackle crime

Conservatives working to make Hailsham a safer place to live, work and visit, backed by Government funding

  • Tweet
Thursday, 21 April, 2022
safer streets

Initial results from a government-funded scheme to reduce crime in Hailsham are very encouraging, says a Conservative councillor who represents the town. The programme has already captured fly-tippers, untaxed and uninsured vehicles, and helped dozens of shopkeepers to improve security.

Although a safe place to live, Hailsham was suffering from above-average levels of neighbourhood crime, so Wealden council worked hard to secure a £300,000 grant to tackle the problems.

The Home Secretary said that she would not stand by while criminals inflict fear and misery on our local communities. Conservative-run Wealden acted quickly and were the only rural council to submit a successful Safer Streets Funding bid. The bid was co-ordinated by Conservative councillor Philip Lunn, Wealden's cabinet member for Community and Public Health. He said: "This funding, provided by the Government, will help us to target one area where we believe a carefully thought-through strategy will make it much more difficult for criminals in the future. “

“The timescales for the project were very tight, but thanks to hard-work and good partnership-working by the Wealden District Policy Team with the Sussex Police Neighbourhood Policing Team and Hailsham Town Council, among other bodies, much has been achieved”, says Gerard Fox, Conservative county councillor for Hailsham.

 Safer Streets funding has allowed the following in Hailsham: 

  • A community survey has been undertaken in those residential areas most affected by the crimes listed by the Home Office to identify residents’ security and safety concerns
  • Visits have taken place to a number of properties at the request of the owners with locks replaced and upgraded where necessary, and, where home safety support was sought, from the East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service
  • There has been an increased Police presence in the town over the last six months
  • A DISC project has been developed and now launched in Hailsham Town Centre. DISC provides a platform via an App whereby shops can share information between each other and the police about shoplifters operating in the town and other crimes that may be happening
  • Three remote wireless CCTV cameras, covering the three waste recycling points in the town, have been purchased and installed
  • Seven upgraded digital CCTV cameras have been purchased and installed, replacing all the existing cameras, providing high quality imaging, future-proofing the Town’s CCTV camera system
  • Two additional Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) Cameras have been purchased and are being sited within the town’s vicinity, to assist tracking of vehicle movements in order to identify and prosecute offenders
  • Victim Support have been commissioned to undertake a number of personal safety workshops in the project area in Hailsham
  • Nothing of Value’ cards for display in vehicles have been designed, using insights from the behavioural sciences, and are being given to vehicle owners to further reduce acquisitive and car crime in the target area
  • A large number of ‘Selecta’ DNA kits, permitting property owners to invisibly mark their property, aimed at vehicle owners to reduce car crime and make it easier to identify and prosecute offenders, have been purchased along with ‘Selecta’ DNA property marking kits
  • A community outreach drugs worker has been appointed and is working in the project area 
  • Two Youth Shelters have been purchased. They will be sited in recreation grounds adjoining the project area and just outside the town centre. These will aim to provide a place for young people to gather and socialise, draw the current groups of young people meeting in the town centre to locations where they will have less potential to cause problems, hopefully permitting police and youth workers to engage with young people more effectively

“A detailed evaluation of the whole project will be taking place in due course, but the initial results are encouraging”, adds Cllr Fox.

You may also be interested in

Gerard Fox

Gerard Fox - working hard for Hailsham

Conservative County Councillor for Hailsham New Town Division, ESCC
Chair of the East Sussex Pension Fund Committee
Vice-chair of ESCC Audit Committee
Wealden Conservatives Association Officer

East Sussex County Councillor for Hailsham New Town, Cllr Gerard Fox has lived in Wealden for fifty years since childhood, attending local schools before studying Economics and Politics at Bristol University.

Cllr Philip Lunn

Philip Lunn

District Councillor for Crowborough South-East
Conservative county councillor for Crowborough South & St. John's
Wealden District Council Cabinet Member for Commercial, Economic Development and Leisure
Deputy Leader of Wealden District Council
President of Crowborough Conservatives

Philip Lunn was first elected to Wealden District Council in 2016. In May 2019 he was elected district councillor for the new Crowborough South-East Ward. He is a Cabinet member, with responsibilities for Community & Public Health.

Hailsam Market

Hailsham & Hellingly Branch

Branch Contact, Secretary - Cllr Richard Grocock Tel 01323 842931   
or the Chairman, Chris Bryant: hailsham@wealdenconservatives.com

  • Local News
part of the council’s ongoing efforts to support the transition to low carbon transport and to improve local air quality. ​

Roll-out of EV chargers across Conservative-run Wealden boosted by Government grant

Tuesday, 24 January, 2023

A government grant of almost £157,000 has been allocated to Wealden District Council to continue the roll out of electric vehicle charging points in its car parks.

Show only

  • Articles
  • European News
  • Local News
  • Media
  • National News
  • Speeches in Parliament
  • Westminster News

Join or Renew

Help us take action on local issues and build a better Britain.

accepted-payment-cards

Target one area where we believe a carefully thought-through strategy will make it much more difficult for criminals in the future.

A community outreach drugs worker has been appointed

Already captured fly-tippers, untaxed and uninsured vehicles, and helped dozens of shopkeepers.

Wealden Conservatives

Footer

  • About RSS
  • Accessibility
  • Cookies
  • Privacy
  • About Wealden Conservatives
  • Branches and Clubs
  • CPF - Members' Think Tank
  • Donate to Wealden Conservatives
  • Forms for prospective councillors
  • Get a Postal Vote
  • Key Party Contacts
  • Wealden News - members' newsletter
  • Wealden Patrons Club
  • Young Conservatives
Donate nowPromoted by Daphne Bagshawe on behalf of Wealden Constituency Conservatives, all of Woodclyffe, Buxted, Uckfield, East Sussex TN22 4JT
Copyright 2023 Wealden Conservatives . All rights reserved.
Powered by Bluetree