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BBC News
03-04-2025
- Politics
- BBC News
New anti-social behaviour rules begin in Guildford
Using vehicles, including bicycles, skateboards, scooters and wheeled toys, in a dangerous way in pedestrian parts of Guildford town centre has been banned under new rules to tackle anti-social public space protection order (PSPO) came into force on Tuesday and will last until 31 March restrictions also include drinking alcohol in public after receiving a verbal warning from an authorised person, and behaving or encouraging others to behave in a rowdy and inconsiderate Merel Rehorst-Smith said: "Our goal is to strike a careful balance between protecting individual freedoms and ensuring our town centre feels safe and welcoming for everyone." Some of the original proposals for the regulations were changed after being opposed by University of Surrey students, according to the Local Democracy Reporting made amendments to the text, for example, to clarify that bicycles are not being singled out, after there were concerns that residents would be discouraged from using sustainable transport methods. The PSPO is an extension of a scheme which was introduced in Guildford in April town centre, Stoke Park and some neighbouring residential roads and the Mount area, including Black Cat Alley, near the bottom of Farnham Road, where there have been reports of anti-social behaviour, are areas included in the Blaine Rafferty, Guildford Borough Commander, said Surrey Police were working with the council to "make Guildford a safer place to live and work"."We hope that the Public Space Protection Order will help accomplish that, and we believe that a coordinated approach can make a significant difference in preventing anti-social behaviour and improving residents' quality of life," he said. With additional reporting from local democracy reporter Emily Dalton.
BBC News
29-01-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Bradford to get new padel centre for fast-growing racquet sport
Plans to build a new centre in Bradford for the emerging racquet sport of padel have been whose popularity has surged in popularity in recent years, dates back to the 1960s and has similar rules to lawn tennis, but is played indoors on much smaller a meeting earlier this week, Bradford Council gave the go-ahead to the new five-court facility at Beckside Business Park in Lidget Green, with planning officers predicting it would create some new heard there were already padel facilities in nearby Ilkley and Rawdon, but this would be the first dedicated centre for the sport in the city of Bradford. The planning application for the facility, which will have 13 parking spaces, was submitted by Fahad Qureshi, according to Local Democracy Reporting told the meeting: "Given the existing leisure uses within the surrounding units of the application site, it is considered the proposal would be suitable in this location."They added: "Although the use in itself is not a typical employment-generating use, it would nevertheless create an acceptable level of employment within an employment zone."Celebrities such as David Beckham and Eva Longoria are said to be avid fans of the sport, which is a blend of tennis and game was invented in Mexico in 1969 and there are now said to be 30 million players across the to highlights from West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North or tell us a story you think we should be covering here.
