CCTV scheme gets go-ahead
Friday 30th March 2007, 6:14AM BST.
Campaigners for CCTV in Albrighton are celebrating after plans for two new cameras were given the go-ahead.
The village’s crime prevention panel and the parish council submitted an application to Bridgnorth District Council for the equipment to be installed on the The Crown Pub, High Street.
It is hoped the community will be provided with a surveillance system that will discourage criminal activity.
Now planning officers have granted permission for the scheme to go ahead.
Jonathan Nelson, chairman of Albrighton Parish Council, said: “The cameras will reassure both customers of the public house and the wider community, and also provide police with evidence, should incidents occur.
“The Crime Prevention Panel’s intention is, eventually to cover most of the village centre with such cameras and to monitor them themselves from a central location.”
“The aim is that one camera will face the Red House and cover the centre of the village and the other camera will cover the car park of the pub and the nearby public conveniences.
Members of the panel say they have got enough money for two cameras and a monitoring station.
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