Local residents set the priorities for Neighbourhood Management across Glasgow
 
10,000 residents across Glasgow took part in a ground-breaking face-to-face Household Survey during December to set priorities for the future management of environmental, cleansing and community safety services in their neighbourhoods. 
 
Survey results will determine local work plans for each of the 10 community planning areas, enabling organisations and agencies like Glasgow City Council, Strathclyde Police and Glasgow Housing Association to tackle environmental and community safety issues more effectively at a neighbourhood level.
 
The citywide survey follows on from a successful pilot phase, carried out in the Glasgow North East area between May 2006 and March 2007, co-ordinated by Glasgow Community Planning Partnership and carried out by key partners. 
 
Gordon Smith, co-ordinator of the Neighbourhood Management initiative said: " the idea behind Neighbourhood Management is simple but effective: ask local people to identify the key environmental, cleansing and community safety issues which adversely affect their quality of life and then bring service providers together to implement action plans to tackle them.  The pilot was incredibly successful because we listened to what people said and acted upon it, bringing solutions to that table that were not just one-offs but looked to tackle the problems for good"
 
In December 2007 residents in the two North Glasgow community planning areas identified the following 5 issues as their top priorities for action:
 
Glasgow North East

• Dogs roaming, fouling and barking
• Youth disorder
• Road safety (mainly cars driving too fast)
• Street drinking
• Vandalism and graffiti.

Maryhill, Kelvin and Canal

• Dogs roaming, fouling and barking
• Road safety (mainly cars driving too fast)
• Youth disorder
• Street drinking
• Vandalism and graffiti.

To download the full survey results for Glasgow North East and Maryhill, Kelvin and Canal see ‘Related Pages’ to the right of this text. 
 
For further information on Neighbourhood Management contact Gordon Smith