Business urged to make their views known on CCTV

Business leaders are being urged to make their views known over the a Town Council-funded CCTV scheme in Marlborough High Street.

Town councillors will be discussing the issue on Monday (November 5) at the Town Hall, and Marlborough Chamber of Commerce this week wrote to businesses to jolt them into action.

In a letter to business leaders on Wednesday, Chamber president Paul Shimell wrote: “The Town Council meeting will review the option for having CCTV in Marlborough High Street, where the proposal is for this to be funded by the Town Council.

“You are invited to attend the meeting and the CCTV debate is the first item on the agenda. This is your opportunity to make your views heard, and it is important that if you support, or do not support, the idea that you attend the meeting so that a decision can be made which reflects the majority opinions of the local business community.

Marlborough is the only town on the M4 corridor between London and Bristol without CCTV. Police have said gangs of criminals see the town as a “soft target”.