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A £50,000 grant won by the E11 BID will be invested in CCTV for Leytonstone (From East London and West Essex Guardian Series)
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A £50,000 grant won by the E11 BID will be invested in CCTV for Leytonstone
9:01am Wednesday 3rd February 2010
A STATE-of-the-art £50,000 CCTV control room will be created to tackle crime against retailers.
Home Office minister Alan Campbell visited Leytonstone yesterday to meet business owners and congratulate the E11 Business Improvement District (BID), which was one of only four consortiums in London to be awarded £50,000 from the Small Retailers Grants Fund.
The new equipment will be installed in a control room in Leytonstone Library in Church Street and will have cameras with a six-mile radius.
It will have facial and automatic number plate recognition technology.
The minister met with chairman of E11 BID, Fawad Shaihk and Waltham Forest councillors, and visited high street businesses.
He said: “This is about helping small businesses to secure their properties against the background of the recession.
“I am hugely impressed by the partnership in this area, which is bringing together the council and police in order to secure the economic future of Leytonstone, but also to keep the public safe. Small businesses are the economic backbone and part of the substance of the community.”
Mr Shaihk told the minister that 95 per cent of businesses involved in the E11 BID voted for more CCTV cameras as their main concern.
He said afterwards: “It’s great that we’ve been given this money. It’s a testament to the strong partnership between us, the council and the Home Office that our bid was successful.
“This is a project that never would have happened without that and the businesses have supported us 100 per cent. It’s so crucial for a town centre and its retailers to feel secure and this project will help us do that.”
The £5 million Small Retailers Grants Fund, which was launched yesterday, is allocating £3,000 grants for small businesses to tackle crime and £50,000 for group bids.
The fund is part of the Retail Crime Action Plan (RCAP), which sets out a broad range of actions to tackle crimes against retailers and small businesses.
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mr rusty, Harlow says...
2:15pm Wed 3 Feb 10
If they really wanted to do something to help local businesses they'd sort the ridiculous one way system out and attract some decent shops and customers into the area.
hotredman, says...
7:27pm Wed 3 Feb 10
Then around near the second or third paragraph I see automatic numberplate recognition technonolgy - no suprise.
What next CCTv in toilets???? You would soon be charged by the amount of waste you leave, this country is gettin ridiculous.
Techno2, Walthamstow says...
8:17pm Fri 5 Feb 10
Included in the £21,000 were £32 on towels, £25 on a cutlery set and £29 on crockery. The vast majority of his claims are made up of mortgage payments, (yep, he may well be going to leave Parlaiment with his house paid for from our funds, not from his own salary), service charges, utility bills and council tax payments.
The year prior to that his claims came to more than £22,000, in 2005/06 he also claimed more than £22,000 and in 2004/05 he claimed around £20,000.
Avenueroad, Leytonstone says...
11:12am Mon 8 Feb 10
How about not claiming you are covering Leytonstone, and why not claim the truth which is the E11 Bid area.
Welcome to "Lower Leytonstone" as a certain Councillor has said
Alan Campbell MP meets chairman of E11 BID Fawad Shaihk
The minister and councillors take a walk around Leytonstone town centre
Alan Campbell MP in the CCTV control room.
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jef costello, Leytonstone says...
11:25am Wed 3 Feb 10