WINSFORD AREA

Winsford Over

Background

Over Ward lies to the west of Winsford Town Centre. (See Map) It contains 400 hectares. The ward is largely residential but does contain the Woodford Lane Industrial estate and the site of the Cheshire Constabulary Headquarters. The main residential areas are known as Greenfields and Mount Pleasant. There are four primary schools and one secondary school 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

5495

(4.5%)

2041

(3.9%)

1594

(29%)

3501

(63.7%)

400

(7.3%)

31 years

In 2001 there were 2040 households of which 57.8% were owner-occupied and social housing accounted for a further 35%.

At the time of the 2001 Census, of those aged between 16 and 74 years 61% were economically active which is just below the rate for Vale Royal (62.8%) and above that for England and Wales (60.6%). The unemployed accounted for only 5% of whom 9% were aged over 50, 6% had never worked and 25% were long-term unemployed. Those otherwise economically inactive formed 25% of the population in the same age range. Retired people represent 9% of the age group.

Over is divided into four 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. Both the western (covering Greenfields and Mount Pleasant) and the southern area are in the bottom 10% nationally for overall deprivation indicators; these two areas also feature in the bottom 10% for income, employment and health. Educationally, the Greenfields and Mount Pleasant area is ranked 31 out of over 32482.

Crime

Year	Burglary Dwelling	Other Burglary	Vehicle Crime	Other Theft	Criminal Damage	Violent Crime	Other Crimes	Total
2006/07 (½ year)	26	24	33	76	156	96	29	440
2005/06	25	27	32	132	287	208	55	766 (166)
2004/05	24	50	79	92	239	29	218	731 (133)
2003/04	28 (5.1)	44 (8)	78 (14.2)	103 (18.7)	198 (36)	197 (36)	67 (12.2)	715 (130)

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)	3	63	2	0	0	12	229	107	405
2005/06	5	54	51	2	1	198	211	260	782

The figures for previous years were as follows:

			Disturbance in
Year	Nuisance Youths	General Disorder	Public place	Private place	Licensed premises	Noise nuisance	Domestic Incident	Total
2004/05	281	340	87	98	11	11	99	1162
2003/04	233	20	94	41	17	5	85	747
2002/03	110	16	119	27	7	5	94	568
2001/02	293			19	5	9	63	553

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