Community safety

The Tunbridge Wells Community Safety Unit (CSU) is a partnership of local organisations including Kent Police, Tunbridge Wells Borough Council, Kent County Council and others. The CSU is focussed on tackling crime, anti-social behaviour and other ‘quality of life’ issues in your community.

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Partnership Plan 2022/23

The Tunbridge Wells Community Safety Partnership Plan was agreed at Full Council on 27 April 2022.

Our priorities for this year are:

Domestic abuse
Road safety
Alcohol and substance abuse
Anti-social behaviour
Violence Against Women and Girls

View the Plan

Domestic Abuse One Stop Shop

We’re pleased to announce that the West Kent Domestic Abuse 'One Stop Shop' at 4 New Wharf Road, Tonbridge, TN9 1DS will be open from Wednesday 16 December 2020 (and every following Wednesday) for in-person visits. The 'COVID-secure' One Stop Shop provides a service for residents living in Tonbridge and Malling, Sevenoaks and Tunbridge Wells. The weekly service is available between 9am and noon every Wednesday.

Alternatively, if you are experiencing domestic abuse you may wish to contact the following organisations for support and advice:

If you need a refuge space please call Refuge on 0808 2000 247 or if you are in immediate danger please call 999.

Public Spaces Protection Order

Public Spaces Protection Orders (PSPO) for the borough of Tunbridge Wells, Tunbridge Wells town centre, and Southborough were scheduled for implementation on 10 September 2018, following approval at Full Council in April 2018.

Details of the Full Council meeting can be found here.

In summary, the conditions set to be imposed will help us address anti-social behaviour associated with rough sleeping, begging and public drinking of alcohol, amplified noise that causes an unreasonable disturbance, unleashed dogs at Nevill Cricket Ground and St Marks Rec.

There will also be a borough-wide increase from £50 to £100 where penalty notices are issued for dog fouling (when not cleaned up).

Further details of the PSPO can be found on our public spaces protection orders page.

Community Trigger

The Community Trigger is the name generally applied to the Response to Complaints section of the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014. It enables people experiencing anti-social behaviour to require agencies to carry out a case review when their initial complaints have seemingly not given due attention.

If a person has made three complaints about anti-social behaviour within a 6-month period and the anti-social behaviour has not been addressed we will perform a case review to ensure relevant agencies are sighted on the issue and actions are put in place to resolve it.

Regardless of whether the Trigger threshold is reached we will always help to resolve issues of anti-social behaviour so please do get in touch.

The table below outlines local Community Trigger outcomes since the first application was made in 2016.

Date and reference	Threshold met	Recommendations	Action plan	Comment(s)
2016-001	No	N/A	N/A	Specific investigations were ongoing
2016-002	No	N/A	N/A	Specific investigations were ongoing
2017-001	No	N/A	Yes	Action plan in place
2017-002	No	N/A	Yes	Agencies actively engaged
2018-001	No	N/A	No	Relevant agencies actively involved
2018-002	No	N/A	No
2019-001	Yes	No	Yes	Actions were already underway
2020-001	No	N/A	Yes
2022-001	No	N/A	Yes	Action Plan underway
2022-002	Yes	Yes	Yes