Car Crime Survey

Car crime should not be allowed to blight the lives of honest hard-working families in North Grangetown - but we know the problems are so bad that people have even stopped reporting incidents to the police. We cannot allow thieves and vandals to win. Having a wing mirror smashed off or side window broken may be seen as minor crimes by the authorities, but when it has happened to you five or six times in a year, it becomes very costly indeed, and increasingly distressing for the victims. The Grangetown Labour Team will be out tonight (weather permitting)delivering a Car Crime Survey in the area around Court Road and Cornwall Street, but we know that problems extend right across Grangetown, so if you would like you views to be taken into account, please get in touch - we can do the survey over the phone, or pop round if you prefer. It will only take a couple of minutes, but your views will help make a strong case to the police for more action locally, it is important to make our voices heard on this issue. Our campaign for a stronger police presence needs your support - please get in touch.

Get in touch

Email your local labour team direct:

lynda@grangetownlabour.co.uk

Postal address: 51 Bessborough Drive, Grangetown, CF11 8NE

Telephone: 2034 5679

About Grangetown

The ward of Grangetown lies in the South of Cardiff and is bordered on three sides by the rivers Ely and Taff. The boundary to the north of the ward runs along the main east/west railway line, and ends at the bus depot on Sloper Road.

Grangetown developed during the 19th Century together with Cardiff Docks and the growth of the city as a whole based around the export of anthracite coal to all parts of the globe. Much of the housing is terraced streets, although there is a great deal of new housing, mostly modern apartments either already built, under construction or awaiting planning permission in the south of the ward as a consequence of the Cardiff Bay barrage and the waterfornt regeneration it has brought.

Here are some key statistics for Grangetown. More can be found over at the Office for National Statistics site.

- As of the 2001 census, there were 6,230 households in Grangetown.
- As of June 2004 there were 15,264 individual persons living in Grangetown.
- Around three quarters of the population are classed as 'White' (British, Irish or 'other'). Of the remainder, 13% are asian and just over 4% black.
- The largest religious identification is christian (57.5 per cent of the population), followed by none (16.6 per cent), muslim (12.4 per cent), refused to answer the census question (8.5 per cent), Hindu (3.4 per cent).
- 6.75 per cent of Grangetown residents claim to speak, read and write Welsh, while 86 per cent claim no knowledge at all.
- One in five of the population suffers some form of 'limiting longterm illness'.
- Seventy four per cent of residents were born in Wales. 11.2 per cent in England and 12 per cent outside the European Union.
- Unemployment among those aged 16 - 74 stands at 4.16 per cent.

About us

Welcome to the website of Grangetown Labour Party!

We are the local Branch of the Labour Party covering Grangetown. We are a part of Cardiff South & Penarth Constituency Labour Party.

Grangetown Labour Party have relaunched this site to update the community with news from Labour’s local team in our community. We’re aiming to be posting news and views from our local city council candidates, and talking about the issues of concern to Grangetown residents.

Our local party is a lively campaigning unit and we’re often out and about campaigning on local issues or delivering news updates to residents.

You can get in touch with us on this site and respond to any news with your comments, concerns or questions. It might take a while for this site to really get going whilst we find our way. Bear with us. Ultimately we hope it can be a really useful source of information about the area and a great way for residents to alert us to issues and for us to tell residents what we're doing on their behalf.

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