Results summary

The results below are based on a total of 621 responses to the consultation.

• The majority of people, almost 90%, felt safe during the day with only 4% feeling unsafe.
• After dark, 38% felt safe and 35% felt unsafe. The rest either felt neither safe nor unsafe (17%), didn't go out after dark (11%) or didn't know (1%).
• When asked why they felt unsafe, the majority of people were intimidated by large groups of youths (62%).  35% felt unsafe because of stories in the local media, 34% felt unsafe because of stories they had heard from neighbours, friends or relatives about incidents and 32% felt unsafe because of stories in the national news. 16% of people felt unsafe because they had witnessed a crime and 15% had been a victim of crime themselves.
• Over 50% of people who responded thought more places for young people to go would help to reduce crime in their area.  Other popular choices were more enforcement (50%) and diversionary activities for young people (46%).
• When asked to rate how much of a problem certain things were where they lived, rubbish or litter was the biggest problem for most people with 62% rating this as either a very big or fairly big problem where they live.
• 53% rated Vandalism, graffiti and other deliberate damage as either a very big or fairly big problem where they live and 52% rated teenagers hanging around the streets as a problem.
• The things that were less of a problem for respondents were abandoned or burnt out cars (17% thought this was a problem) and noisy neighbours and loud parties (18%).

For more information please e-mail hannah.thorpe@thanet.gov.uk or call 01843 577120.

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