Freedom of information response
Advertising Permits
Can you please:
1. Advise whether there are any restrictions, permits or permission we would need to advertise in your borough.
2. The name and contact details of the cabinet holder for community safety in the authority
3. The local strategy to apply the serious violence duty per the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (“the PCSC Act”).
4. The data that informs on the number of knife and gun crime incidents the borough had to address between March 2021 and March 2022.
5. The data that informs on the number of knife and gun crime incidents the borough had to address between March 2022 and March 2023.
1. Information on the need for advertisement consent is available publicly on the government website. Further information is available at https://www.thurrock.gov.uk/planning-enforcement/advertisements
2. Councillor Victoria Holloway, Cabinet member for Place and the Environment.
3. Partners within Thurrock have adopted the Essex VVP: Essex Serious Violence Strategy 2024-2025.
4. Within the community safety partnership strategic assessment 2021 our Youth Offending Service reported: During 2017/18 we reported a significant rise in offences of possession of bladed articles committed by children resident in Thurrock. However, this trend ceased in 2018/19 and we have noted lower levels of weapon and knife possessions for the last two financial years.
5. The data that informs on the number of knife and gun crime incidents the borough had to address between March 2022 and March 2023.
The community safety partnership strategic assessment 22/23 refers: The analysis identified three hotspots. These were Grays town centre, West Thurrock (incorporating Lakeside) and Tilbury. • There were 178 offences which could be referred to as ‘community violence’ in the three identified hotspots. Two were flagged as firearm related and seven as knife related.
With regards Q 4 and 5, January 2024 Essex Serious Violence SNA provides further information.
In issuing our response the Council has applied S21 of the Freedom of Information Act. This means that the information you have requested is already available elsewhere so is therefore exempt from disclosure.