WINSFORD AREA

Winsford Dene

Background

Dene Ward covers the town centre of Winsford. (See Map) It contains 140 hectares. The town centre of Winsford and its surrounding areas offer retail and entertainment outlets. There are residential and business premises as well as the headquarters of the Vale Royal Borough Council. There is one primary school, a library, a church hall and the civic hall in the ward.

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
4300 (3.5%)	1753 (3.3%)	841 (19.6%)	2657 (61.8%)	802 (18.6%)	40 years

In 2001 there were 1753 households of which 73.7% were owner-occupied and social housing accounted for a further 18.8%.

At the time of the 2001 Census, of those aged between 16 and 74 years 60.6% were economically active which is just below the rate for Vale Royal (62.8%) and the same as that for England and Wales (60.6%). The unemployed accounted for only 2.9% of whom 14% were aged over 50, 7% had never worked and 17?% were long-term unemployed. Those otherwise economically inactive formed 20.8% of the population in the same age range. Retired people represent 15.8% of the age group.

The ward is divided into three areas for the purpose of measuring social and economic disadvantage. According to the Government’s Index of Multiple Deprivation 2004, this Ward does show some levels of deprivation. The south-western area is in the bottom 10% as regards health matters and the north-western in the bottom 20%. All three areas are in the bottom 20% for environmental issues.

Crime

Year	Burglary Dwelling	Other Burglary	Vehicle Crime	Other Theft	Criminal Damage	Violent Crime	Other Crimes	Total
2006/07 (½ year)	1	10	17	69	66	42	15	220
2005/06	9	33	18	199	153	138	45	595 (138)
2004/05	16	38	58	79	143	20	212	566 (131.6)
2003/04	17	40	85	157	147	104	27	577 (134.2)

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)	1	16	1	0	0	9	102	49	178
2005/06	1	20	27	0	0	141	119	54	362

The figures for previous years were as follows:

			Disturbances in
Year	Nuisance Youths	General Disorder	Public place	Private place	Licensed premises	Noise nuisance	Domestic Incident	Total
2004/05	212	146	90	40	10	4	52	624
2003/04	100	11	46	23	8	7	39	442
2002/03	74	9	99	20	3	4	35	431
2001/02	167			12	1	5	18	426

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. The totals given include these matters

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