Safety Trial launches in Nollamara and Westminster
The City has commenced a six-month safety trial in Nollamara and Westminster which will aim to enhance neighbourhood safety and connection.
The City has commenced a six-month safety trial in Nollamara and Westminster which will aim to enhance neighbourhood safety and connection.
A strength-based neighbourhood safety approach will enable the City to rethink how it delivers community safety initiatives, partner with local residents to better understand key issues, and co-create responses to make the neighbourhood a safer place for everyone. By investing in local stories and inspiring opportunities to work together, residents can shape what it means to be “a local.”
The neighbourhood safety approach is a process of reviewing public spaces and making recommendations about how they can be improved to prevent crime and promote community safety. This safety-check process explores themes around actual and perceived inter-personal safety, cultural and gender safety, shared public spaces ‘feeling of safety’ and local amenities infrastructure such as lighting and road crossings, traffic, and accident safety. The safety-check results will inform key actions and priorities for the local suburb. City Officers will be in the neighbourhood over the next six months to engage directly to better understand the experience of locals.
The City launched the pop-up safety hub at Nollamara Community Centre on 4 August 2023.
The pop-up safety hub is a space for the local community to come together and share your local knowledge. The community's input will help to better understand the actual and perceived local safety issues and for the City to better understand the actual and perceived neighbourhood safety issues. The hub will provide opportunities to partner with local residents and co-create responses to make the neighbourhood safer.
Please join City’s Community Safety Officers for a cup of tea and a chat for our next pop-up safety hub at Nollamara Community Centre on Monday 21 August 2023 at 10.00am – 2.00pm.
This exciting initiative will provide an opportunity to walk alongside City Officers and your neighbours to identify shared priorities to make the neighbourhood safer. Your contribution to a walkshop would be a small discussion walking around the neighbourhood to point out the key hotspots.
The City encourages you to get involved by sharing your neighbourhood safety-check, visit our pop-up safety hub or attending a walk-shop.
More details will be updated on the project page with the safety hub opening times and walkshops.
