Parts of Hull still have high crime rates and suffers from poverty. It is clear that these factors have an effect on the health of Hull’s neighbourhoods and the City’s potential to achieve.
Efforts to develop the City’s economy and create a skilled workforce rely on safer, stronger communities where people want to live. This involves improving homes, the environment, schools, local services and public transport, reducing crime the fear of crime and antisocial behaviour, and promoting healthy living.
In relation to community safety, local people have already seen a commitment to working in a partnership. ONE HULL has funded or part-funded CCTV, Community Wardens, Copshops, Ambassadors, and more recently an innovative SmartWater project – all aimed at reducing crime and the fear of crime.
The ONE HULL Strategic Delivery Partnership is working towards improving the quality of life for local people and encouraging people to make decisions about where they live. Providing a safe environment and a good choice in housing with excellent community facilities, and improving transport links, will help encourage people to stay – or move to Hull.
We recognise that there are still many challenges to overcome, but no-one must be treated unfairly because of where they live, their race, age, sex, religion, sexuality or disability.
The Quality of Life Strategic Delivery Partnerships of ONE HULL comprise of four key areas:
- Cohesion
- Community Safety
- Housing and Liveability
- Health and Well Being
Members have been selected to achieve the targets set out in the Community Strategy and create a better City. They will monitor progress and regularly report on how it is performing in meeting those challenging goals.
The aim is to make Hull a safer, stronger City where there is less crime and less people in the City fear crime. ONE HULL wants to develop a quality living City with a good mix of tenure and where every home meets the Decent Homes Standard by 2010. We also want to make Hull a healthier living City addressing issues such as coronary heart disease, smoking and tackling Hull’s high rate of teenage pregnancy.
Everyone is also entitled to a good quality of life, regardless of their background. Local people want to live in an understanding City where they are empowered to make choices in a society where a rich diversity of cultures is seen as an asset.
ONE HULL is committed to developing the full potential of the City and its people, addressing inequality and promoting social inclusion. Through the delivery of the Community Strategy, we will actively promote diversity and the benefits diversity brings. We will also seek to ensure that Hull is recognised nationally as best practice in relation to equalities and diversity work.
Our aims are to:
- reduce crime, the fear of crime and antisocial behaviour to make Hull a safer place;
- improve the amount of quality housing available in the city, and the environmental quality of Hull’s neighbourhoods;
- increase life expectancy (how long people are expected to live) by reducing ill health and early deaths; and
- allow people and their communities to take part in managing their own neighbourhoods.
This means that, over the next five years, we intend to:
- reduce the gap between the level of crime in Hull and the rest of the country (we will need to have halved it by 2011);
- increase both male and female life expectancy so they match the national average;
- improve the quality of housing in the city; and
- improve community involvement and community relations.
By 2011
We will have made Hull an attractive place to live, increased the quality of housing, reduced crime and the fear of crime and improved the environment of the city’s neighbourhoods. We will have improved people’s physical health, reduced the number of people who smoke or are obese, and helped to build communities that include everyone and have the power to manage themselves and influence decisions about how they live.