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Shelters to celebrate sport and nature
MORE details have emerged about new
plans for bus shelter art in the borough.
Following the success of projects to
brighten up shelters in Matchborough,
Winyates and Woodrow, Redditch
Community Safety Partnership is planning
more art in Abbeydale and Batchley.
Pupils from Birchensale Middle School
and Trinity High School will design the
shelters in collaboration with
Birmingham-based arts group Hedz.
They will replace old, graffitied and
damaged bus shelters on Bromsgrove
Road, Batchley Road and Easemore
Road.
These new shelters will be the first ones to
be situated on highways rather than bus
lanes. The Batchley Road shelters will
celebrate sports in Redditch.
Two further brick bus shelters one in
Easemore Road and one by Northleach
Close will be painted with murals
designed by local young people and
protected by an anti-graffiti coating.
Artwork from the latest projects will
become part of an existing gallery
celebrating Redditch’s bus shelter art in
the Town Hall foyer.
Pictured: Cllr Juliet Brunner and Peter Hill, one
of Redditch Borough Council’s Community
Safety Project Officers, by the display of bus
shelter artwork
Training helps partners
tackle home security issues
IN THE last Redditch Matters, we told
you about a home security guide
being trialled by Redditch
Community Safety Partnership.
The finishing touches are being put
to the guide, which is due to be
launched later this year. But in the
meantime its author, Community
Safety Project Officer Peter Hill,
has been busy spreading the
home security message in a
different way.
The Redditch Borough
Council officer has devised
a training package to help local
organisations with a duty of care to
residents, such as housing
associations, understand why burglars
target certain homes and what
measures can be taken to prevent
them.
To date officers from West Mercia
Police, Victim Support volunteers and
staff from the Council’s own Tenancy
team have undergone the training.
This spring will see Stonham Housing
Association staff getting to grips with
the home security agenda.
The intensive, practical two-day
course prepares participants for
assessing potential home security
issues. Attendees are encouraged to
view properties through the eyes of a
burglar to help them identify
weaknesses.
The course is free to appropriate
Redditch-based organisations.
Anyone wanting to find out more
about the training should contact
Peter Hill on (01527) 64252 or email
peter.hill@redditchbc.gov.uk
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