Contents

  1. Foreword to the Bexley Community Safety Partnership Strategy
  2. What is the Community Safety Partnership?
  3. Achievements from the 2022 to 2025 strategy
  4. Key legislation
  5. Joint strategic assessment 2025
  6. What does the JSA tell us?
  7. Our community
  8. Community safety survey results 2024
  9. BCSP priorities 2025 to 2028
  10. Principals and cross-cutting themes
  11. Priority 1: serious violence
  12. Priority 2: domestic abuse
  13. Priority 3: anti-social behaviour
  14. Priority 4: community reassurance
  15. Working in partnership
  16. Delivery plan and measuring success
  17. Further information

13. Priority 3: anti-social behaviour

Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) is behaviour which causes - or is likely to cause - harassment, alarm or distress to others.

 There are three types of ASB:

  • Personal ASB: behaviour targeting a specific individual or group
  • Nuisance ASB: behaviour causing annoyance or suffering to a community
  • Environmental ASB: behaviour affective public spaces or buildings

It can include things such as: 

  • vehicle nuisance such as street cruising or abandoned cars
  • rowdy or threatening public behaviour
  • persistent, unnecessary or excessively noisy neighbours
  • littering (including drug paraphernalia) and fly-tipping
  • street drinking
  • vandalism and graffiti

ASB can significantly affect the quality of people’s lives, and the number of ASB incidents and reports is high. This is why the BCSP has named it as a priority area.

The BCSP has a ASB Action Plan an ASB Working Group who oversee delivery against that plan. We have a well established joint operational approach across partners to prevent and respond to ASB.