SEVEN of the borough's wards could become controlled drinking zones.
Members of North East Lincolnshire Council's cabinet will be asked to approve recommendations that West Marsh, East Marsh, Park, Heneage, Sidney Sussex, Croft Baker and South are made such zones to reduce the harm caused by alcohol and alcohol-related antisocial behaviour in public places.
The cabinet will meet on Wednesday and will discuss the issue, following concerns raised by elected members.
Their proposal was that a borough-wide controlled drinking zone be imposed across North East Lincolnshire.
But in a report by Councillor Hazel Chase, the portfolio holder for safer and stronger communities, she recommends that just the seven wards are considered to be designated as Public Space Protection Order areas (PSPO).
"Reports of occurrences in the remaining wards are less frequent, indicating that it is more difficult to substantiate the need to introduce a full borough-wide PSPO," she says.
Her recommendation is backed up by a response from Chief Superinendent Tony Forbes, of Humberside Police, that there was not the level of widespread problems that would justify the making of a borough-wide order.
A consultation exercise revealed that of 84 respondents in the Croft Baker ward, 63 of them supported an order being made.
In the East Marsh, 55 of 79 were for it, on the West Marsh, 45 of 56 would support it, in Park Ward, 83 of 118 backed the idea, in Sidney Sussex, 59 of 80 were for it, in the South Ward, out of 58 people who responded, 37 said they would back it, and in Heneage, 48 residents of 67 supported the idea.
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