NORTHWICH AREA

Cogshall

Background

Cogshall Ward sits to the north of the town of Northwich and is a rural area covering the villages of Anderton, Marbury, Comberbach and Little Leigh. It contains 1368 hectares. The Marbury Country Park and the Anderton Boat Lift are major features of the ward. (See Map)

Facts and Figures

Population & % of Vale Royal	Number of households& % of VR	Population under 16 years	Population 16 to 64 years	Population 65 years and over	Average Age
2159 (1.75%)	857 (1.6%)	417 (19.3%)	1437 (66.5%)	305 (14.2%)	41 years

Cogshall’s population represents 1.7% of the Borough’s population. There were 857 households in 2001 of which 90% were owner-occupied and social housing accounted for a further 6%.

At the time of the 2001 Census, of those aged between 16 and 74 years, 67.9% were economically active which is above the rate for Vale Royal (65%) and that for England and Wales (60.6%). The unemployed accounted for only 1.8% of whom 28% were aged over 50 and 17% were long-term unemployed. Those otherwise economically inactive formed 13.8% of the population in the same age range. Retired people represent 16.5% of the age group.

Cogshall Ward is a single unit for the purpose of measuring social and economic disadvantage. According to the Government’s Index of Multiple Deprivation 2004, Cogshall Ward does not show any levels of deprivation. Educationally the ward is in the top 10% nationally of those least deprived as regards educational opportunities and the skills and qualifications of the population.

Crime

Year	Burglary Dwelling	Other Burglary	Vehicle Crime	Other Theft	Criminal Damage	Violent Crime	Other Crimes	Total
2006/07 (½ year)	4	19	13	17	12	3	3	71
2005/06	3	13	17	22	12	11	13	86 (39.8)
2004/05	4	6	21	8	22	4	16	81 (37.5)
2003/04	6	22	26	24	22	14	7	121 (56)

Note: Figures in brackets are for offences per 1000 population.

Disorder

In 2005/06 new categories of Anti-social behaviour were used by the police making it difficult to compare previous years. During the past year the following incidents were recorded by the police.

	Street Drinking	Vehicle Nuisance	Abandoned Vehicles	Noise - Pubs/Clubs	Environmental Litter, graffiti, etc.	Nuisance in public place	Rowdy/ drunken behaviour	Other	Total
2006/07 (½ year)	0	6	2	0	2	0	11	18	12
2005/06	0	20	11	0	0	8	7	5	51

The figures for previous years were as follows:

The highest category of complaints to the police were about youths causing a nuisance. For the year 2001 – 02 ‘Nuisance Youths’ was not a separate category but were contained within ‘Disturbance in a public place.

			Disturbance in
Year	Nuisance Youths	General Disorder	Public place	Private place	Licensed premises	Noise nuisance	Domestic Incident	Total
2004/05	14	24	4	1	2	0	7	59
2003/04	7	3	3	2	1	1	2	52
2002/03	9	2	5	3	0	1	4	51
2001/02	8			1	0	1	6	32

Of the other forms of disturbance not listed in the table are telephone nuisance of either an abandoned call, hoax or threatening/abusive nature and minor /other nuisance issues including neighbour disputes.