Briefing: Civil engineering to social engineering – Newquay Safe

Abstract

Newquay Safe is an example of a multi-agency project that was set up as an immediate response to a community safety issue and is now being used as the platform to launch a long-term major town regeneration project. In the short term it helped reassure residents and visitors that Newquay was a safe place to visit. In the longer term it has become the catalyst for the people and community of Newquay to work together to return Newquay to the jewel of the Cornish tourism crown. This paper forms part of the ‘current trends in municipal engineering’ feature.