CCTV cameras in Thornbury

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Good Morning Mr Martin,

Please see a response to your questions under the FOI act as requested.

Kind Regards

FOI Monitor.

  Dear South Gloucestershire Council,

Please provide the following information related to CCTV cameras,

which are operated by, or on behalf of, South Gloucestershire

Council, and located in Thornbury.

1. Schools

Whilst there are CCTV cameras visibly mounted on the exterior walls

of Thornbury's secondary school provision (The Castle School, The

Castle School Sixth Form Centre, Marlwood School), there seem to be

no CCTV cameras at Thornbury's primary/special needs schools (St.

Mary's CofE VA Primary School, Manorbrook Primary School, Christ

the King Catholic Primary School, New Siblands School, Crossways

Junior School, Crossways Infant School, Gillingstool Primary

School) - please confirm that there are no exterior CCTV cameras at

these seven Thornbury schools, or alternatively indicate which of

them do have exterior CCTV cameras.

I am sorry to inform you that we do not capture this information so are
unable to answer your questions, you would need to contact South
Gloucestershire schools direct for this information, contact details can
be found on our website

2. Car parks

a) St. Mary Street car park

This car park is a CCTV zone with no obvious cameras within its

perimeter - please confirm that the dome camera mounted above Giggs

Hair and Beauty Salon and the dome camera in the St. Mary Centre's

Service Yard B are cameras which provide coverage of the car park.

If these cameras do indeed monitor the car park, please indicate

whether they are dedicated exclusively to monitoring the car park,

or otherwise indicate the time/cost sharing arrangement with the St

Mary Centre. If there are other cameras, apart from the

aforementioned ones, which monitor the car park, then please

indicate the precise locations of those cameras.

b) Rock Street car park

This car park is a CCTV zone with no obvious cameras within its

perimeter - please confirm that the dome camera mounted above the

Rock Street entrance to the St. Mary Centre is a camera which

provides coverage of the car park. If this camera does indeed

monitor the car park, please indicate whether it is dedicated

exclusively to monitoring the car park, or otherwise indicate the

time/cost sharing arrangement with the St Mary Centre. If there are

other cameras, apart from the aforementioned one, which monitor the

car park, then please indicate the precise locations of those

cameras.

The cameras are owned, maintained and monitored by the St Mary's Centre
not South Gloucestershire Council.

c) Castle Court (short stay) car park

Please indicate how many Penalty Charge Notices (PCNs) were issued

for this car park, during the financial years 2008/09 and 2009/10,

and of those, how many were postal PCNs issued from evidence gained

from the four CCTV cameras. Please show figures for each financial

year separately.

Passed on to our Planning, Transportation & Strategic Environment team for
response.

d) Castle Court (long stay) car park

Please indicate how many PCNs were issued for this car park, during

the financial years 2008/09 and 2009/10, and of those, how many

were postal PCNs issued from evidence gained from the two CCTV

cameras. Please show figures for each financial year separately.

Passed on to our Planning, Transportation & Strategic Environment team for
response.

3. Public surveillance

a) Thornbury's new CCTV system

There was an upgrade of CCTV cameras used for public surveillance

in Thornbury town centre, reportedly funded by a £25,000 grant from

the Home Office, with the new cameras being fully operational from

September 2009. Please confirm that these cameras include the three

dome cameras in the High Street (on the corners of the following

buildings: T&J Owen florist, Thornbury Town Hall, 67 High Street).

This is true information.

If there are other cameras included in this new system, then please

indicate their precise location.

There are none.

b) Functioning of the new system

A Thornbury police source has stated that the new CCTV cameras have

not been functioning for some considerable period, after being

incapacitated during a severe electrical storm. Please indicate the

veracity of this statement, and, if it is true, please indicate the

date on which the new CCTV system ceased functioning, and the

expected date of return to operational use.

This information is false.

c) Other non-parking public surveillance

Please give the precise locations of all other cameras operated by,

or on behalf of, South Gloucestershire Council in Thornbury, which

monitor crime and antisocial behaviour, and indicate in the

response, whether the caged dome camera, above the McColl's shop,

at the parade of shops in Oakleaze Road, is one of them.

There aren't any.

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Please see the response below from our PTSE Dept.

Kind Regards

FOI Monitor

c) Castle Court (short stay) car park

Please indicate how many Penalty Charge Notices (PCNs) were issued

for this car park, during the financial years 2008/09 and 2009/10,

and of those, how many were postal PCNs issued from evidence gained

from the four CCTV cameras. Please show figures for each financial

year separately.

d) Castle Court (long stay) car park

Please indicate how many PCNs were issued for this car park, during

the financial years 2008/09 and 2009/10, and of those, how many

were postal PCNs issued from evidence gained from the two CCTV

cameras. Please show figures for each financial year separately.

Penalty charge notices 2008-2009

Short stay - 382

Long stay - 2

No PCNs issued from evidence from CCTV

Penalty charge notices 2000-2010

Short stay - 318

Long stay - 0

No PCNs issued from evidence from CCTV

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Dear Mr Martin,

Please see additional information from Children and Young People, Street Care will forward a response in due course.

The management and improvement of school sites and premises, including the installation of any security measures rests with the governing body at each school. Local Authorities are no longer required to carry out full and detailed audits of school sites and security measures as schools have local delegated responsibility for decisions and actions.

Yours sincerely,

Verity Britton
FOI Officer

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Dear David Martin,

I refer to your E-Mail dated 31^st August 2010 and your initial E-Mail
dated 20^th April 2010, in request of information relating to CCTV Cameras
in Thornbury.

I must re-iterate the information that was provided in reply to your above
requests. We as a Council, only have Three public surveillance CCTV
cameras on Thornbury High Street

at locations that were provided to you. We cannot provide you with
information that we have no control over (Q.2. of you original E-mail, St
Mary Street

car park and Rock Street car park). These cameras are not owned, operated
or maintained by South Gloucestershire Council, they are the property of
the St Marys Centre,

a privately run shopping precinct in Thornbury.

I have spoken to the Centre Manager, Mr Alan Cole and he is willing for
you to contact him in relation to your queries. To quote from your E-Mail,
we are not being deliberately obstructive

Or withholding information to your request, we just cannot provide you
with information that is outside our control.

The address if you wish to contact Mr Cole is:-

St Marys Centre

8, Quaker Lane

Thornbury

Bristol

BS35 2AD

If you have any further queries Mr Martin please contact us again.

Yours Sincerely

Rod Briggs

CCTV Manager

South Gloucestershire Council

01454 864413

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