Anti-social behaviour in the Night Time Economy of Bowness

Updated April 2025 - We remain committed to ensuring that the evening and night time economy area of Bowness is a safe place to live and visit.

Operation Regulate see's dedicated high visibility patrols taking place in Bowness on Friday and Saturday Nights with specific tasking around licensed premises.

On dates through the summer when we expect their to be higher than usual numbers of people in this area we are continuing to operate the Welfare Hub. This provides a safe space for people to seek support, advice or a place of safety through to the early hours of the morning.

This is supplemented further by our dedicated foot patrols for Operation Enhance. These patrols will continue throughout 2025.

We also conduct visits to Licensed Premises to ensure that they are operating safely and within the Law. These visits are usually conducted alongside partners from Westmorland and Furness Council Licensing and Trading Standards Team's.

Speeding - Lake Road Bowness & Broadgate Grasmere

We have been approached by residents regarding concerns about speeding in the above areas. The first steps are to gather data to get a true picture of the speeds involved. We will liaise with partner agencies for any data they may hold and review this. If the data is outdated, then we will look to gather more recent information by way of speed indicator devices or traffic data units. We will look at a data point called the 85th Percentile, if this exceeds the speed limit then further action will be considered. At this time we are in the data gathering period.

In the last week of January we placed Traffic data units on Lake Road and The Promenade Bowness. The 85th percentile for Lake Road is 28mph so within the 30mph speed limit. The 85th percentile on The Promenade was 31mph so just over the 30mph limit. These speeds are within the Guidance on prosecution from the National Police Chief’s Council (NPCC). NPT will look to do some ad hoc enforcement activity in due course.