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Cameras focus on car park

3:23pm Tuesday 8th January 2008

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CCTV cameras are set to be installed at a York car park, to tackle crime and antisocial behaviour.

Traders and residents have called for cameras at the car park at the corner of Bishopthorpe Road and Scarcroft Road.

Local councillor Sandy Fraser said: "The area with the benches at the corner of Bishopthorpe Road and Scarcroft Road is, at times, the focus for youths congregating. There have been incidents of vandalism and a boundary wall has had to be rebuilt. It also attracts street drinkers on occasions."

The matter will be considered by City of York Council's city strategy panel next week. Work is already in progress to install CCTV at the car park, while the council's waste strategy team is to investigate moving recycling bins to another area of the car park, as their location has helped people gain illegal access to properties.

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akuma, York says...
3:36pm Tue 8 Jan 08

My favourite place to park when picking up a dominos pizza, ummmmmmmmmm, hungry, pizza!

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Gardener, York says...
3:44pm Tue 8 Jan 08

I give them a day before they're broken if they manage to install them!

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GoodramgateTerrier, York says...
3:56pm Tue 8 Jan 08

hmm interesting that they should choose to put the cctv up in one of the cheaper car parks in York, used solely by locals and one where wardens rarely bother you if youve left it there for five minutes with no ticket while picking up a pizza or otherwise..... which way will the camera's be focusing again?

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brummie-ian, south bank says...
3:58pm Tue 8 Jan 08

about time too !! - let's hope this doesn't just move the problem somewhere else.

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GoodramgateTerrier, York says...
4:07pm Tue 8 Jan 08

brummie-ian wrote:
about time too !! - let's hope this doesn't just move the problem somewhere else.
of course it will, it always does unfortunately.

Any bets on where they take up station next, down by the knavesmire possibly? Some posh houses down there so they will be moved on quicker than normal no doubt, then it's round on to tad road then either up the mount or round holgate

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Broderick, Appletree Village says...
4:19pm Tue 8 Jan 08

GoodramgateTerrier wrote:
brummie-ian wrote: about time too !! - let's hope this doesn't just move the problem somewhere else.
of course it will, it always does unfortunately. Any bets on where they take up station next, down by the knavesmire possibly? Some posh houses down there so they will be moved on quicker than normal no doubt, then it's round on to tad road then either up the mount or round holgate
is that how you spent your teenage years GT? it sounds as though you are speaking from experience!

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Sheila Fletcher, says...
4:31pm Tue 8 Jan 08

Seems like a knee-jerk response to me. Not all the young people who gather in this area are drinking or being anti-social - they're just hanging out - why not invest in a youth shelter instead of cameras. Any street drinking that does occur is reinforced by the cheap booze on sale in bargain booze, jacksons and other local stores. It's unfair to soley blame young people.

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logik, york says...
4:39pm Tue 8 Jan 08

cameras in the St Johns car park doesn't seem to put off the drug dealers at the back of the health centre or at the back of the row of shops on Lord Mayors walk.

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johnboy, york says...
4:53pm Tue 8 Jan 08

The money would be better spent by policing the car park with the real police, not those plastic coppers you see riding on the buses and serving no purpose at all.

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John, says...
7:14pm Tue 8 Jan 08

Sheila Fletcher wrote:
Seems like a knee-jerk response to me. Not all the young people who gather in this area are drinking or being anti-social - they're just hanging out - why not invest in a youth shelter instead of cameras. Any street drinking that does occur is reinforced by the cheap booze on sale in bargain booze, jacksons and other local stores. It's unfair to soley blame young people.
What a sensible comment with someone thinking positively for once.

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bored, venus says...
10:34pm Tue 8 Jan 08

Sheila Fletcher wrote:
Seems like a knee-jerk response to me. Not all the young people who gather in this area are drinking or being anti-social - they're just hanging out - why not invest in a youth shelter instead of cameras. Any street drinking that does occur is reinforced by the cheap booze on sale in bargain booze, jacksons and other local stores. It's unfair to soley blame young people.
Good point. If young people had something to do and somewhere to go they wouldn't need to hang around car parks. Although it has to be said that a lot of young people will hang around drinking if they get the opportunity - isn't that what we all did when we were too young to go out? Its part of growing up, hanging round the park or wherever drinking cider!!

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plodwatch, york says...
5:13pm Sun 13 Jan 08

johnboy wrote:
The money would be better spent by policing the car park with the real police, not those plastic coppers you see riding on the buses and serving no purpose at all.
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