Community Payback - A positive change for the community. A punishment for criminals.

Vote results

There were over 18,000 votes for the type of Community Payback the public would like to see offenders carry out in 54 areas across the country.

Voting took place from 30 March to 24 April 2009, with members of the public invited to vote for one of five Community Payback projects in Justice Seen Justice Done pioneer areas.

The projects that received the most votes, in each area, are listed below. These are the projects that will be prioritised by probation areas for Community Payback hours.

To find out about progress, or to nominate further projects, visit your local probation area’s website.

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Avon & SomersetBristol Bristol/Bath cycle path
BedfordshireLuton Taylor Street car park
CambridgeshirePeterborough Stagsden, Orton Goldhay
CheshireHalton Trans Pennine Way
Greater ManchesterBolton Churchgate subway
Oldham Royton area
Rochdale Whitworth Road
Salford St Clements Church, Ordsall
Tameside Smallshaw Fields, Ashton
GwentCaerphilly Churchill Park
Newport Acacia Avenue, Somerton
Hampshire Southampton Exford Avenue
HumbersideNorth East Lincolnshire Waste ground next to Boyes car park
Kingston upon Hull Graham Avenue Triangle
KentThanet Broadstairs and St Peters Churchyard
Lancashire Blackburn with Darwen Olive Lane, Darwen
Blackpool Ibbison Court
Preston Moor Park
Leicestershire & Rutland Leicester Beaumont Leys
LondonBarking & Dagenham Goresbrook village play area an nearby shops in Maplestead Road
Brent Grand Union Canal
Camden WE La to Finchley Rd pathways
Hackney River Lea Towpath
Hammersmith & Fulham Wormholt Estates
Haringey All Hallows Church
Islington Islington Cemetery and Crematorium
Lambeth Gipsy Hill Rail Station
Newham Central Plaistow
Tower Hamlets Brick Lane
Waltham Forest Mansfield Park
MerseysideKnowsley Langton Road public open space
Liverpool Lodge Lane Project, Toxteth
St. Helens Sankey Valley at Blackbrook
Northamptonshire Northampton Bellinge Ponds
Northumbria Newcastle upon Tyne Fawdon Park
South Tyneside Temple Memorial Park Footpath
Sunderland Holley Park, Lambton
Nottinghamshire Nottingham Basford, Mill Street Playing Fields
South WalesCardiff Cardiff West & South West
Swansea Swansea Bay / County Hall
South Yorkshire Barnsley Rockingham Garden Community Project
Doncaster Askern Lake
Rotherham Multiple Sclerosis Centre, Catcliffe
Sheffield Chancet Wood Respite Home
Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent High Street, Golden Hill
Teesside Middlesbrough Netherfields street furniture
Redcar & Cleveland Red Lion Street – Lord Street
Thames Valley Slough Moray Drive
Warwickshire Nuneaton and Bedworth Coton Area
West Midlands Birmingham Brookvale and Witton Lakes
Sandwell Union Street, Wednesbury
Walsall Curtin Drive Darlaston
Wolverhampton Waterways canal clearance
West Yorkshire Wakefield Shop parade, Queen Elizabeth Drive, Normanton

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