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How to manage town centres - UK

Introduction

Provides guidance on making town centres cleaner, safer and greener, particularly in the evening and at night, and explains the tools available to help achieve this.

Description

Outlines some of the challenges involved in managing town centres, such as alcohol-related crime, and anti-social behaviour.

Advises on sharing information about town centres between different organisations and local authority departments. Discusses the importance of developing local leadership. P

rovides guidance on the preparation of a town centre strategy and on maintaining local strategic and operational partnerships. Looks at ways of dealing with alcohol related crime and disorder. Details the range of town centre uniformed staff that can be present in town centres.

Encourages responsible trading from local businesses. Outlines several schemes for safe travel at night, preventing street fouling and reducing nuisance noise levels. Discusses creating a litter free town centre and combating fly-posting. Looks at managing commercial waste. Details the powers available to local authorities and other organisations relating to town centres.

Contact info

Department for Communities and Local Government
Phone: +44 20 7944 4400
contactus@communities.gsi.gov.uk

Publication date

01/03/2005

Article info
Author: Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (now Department for Communities and Local Government)

Links

Visit the Cleaner, Safer, Greener Communities website Department for Communities and Local Government

How to manage town centres (PDF, Eng, 1.2 MB)

Document type

policy

Themes

Urban Policy

Keywords

Urban environment