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Alley Gates in Blackpool HistoryThe Blackpool Community Gating Project commenced in 2002.A crime analysis conducted at that time highlighted that at least 21% of domestic burglaries had taken place as a result of offenders gaining access to property via back streets and alley ways. There are approximately 1625 adopted back streets and alley ways and 575 un-adopted back streets and alley ways in the Blackpool Borough Unitary Authority area. In 2009, Mrs Katarina Wilkie, working in partnership with BSafe Blackpool, submitted her dissertation towards her degree in Criminology and the Criminal Justice System, via Blackpool and the Fylde College (An associate college of Lancaster University). The dissertation was entitled “Alley-gates: Do they work?” and The aim of this research was to examine the impact of The conclusions were that the alleygates have had a considerable impact on reducing crime and anti social behaviour. Click to view Katarinas dissertation.
A typical alley gate
The One Hundredth gate
The Council Leader (right) and Residents
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