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Cheltenham Borough Council is to spend £62,000 to install 7 cameras along the Honeybourne Line between the railway station and Jubilee bridge in the first stage of a project to improve security and surveillance. In due course it is hoped that a further 10 cameras may be added up to the Prince of Wales stadium.
Council and the police believe that the cycle and pedestrian path is being used by burglars to enter adjacent properties and to make their getaway. There has also been some anti-social behaviour.
Councillor Klara Sudbury, cabinet member for housing and safety, is reported as saying: "The reason this stretch has been put forward for the first phase is that negotiations and discussions between our officers and police highlighted this as a stretch that the police particularly felt was the issue."
"The Honeybourne Line is somewhere that we want to be a safe place for people to use. It's a really important transport link and that's why it's really important to us."