John West and his Warden team of Alasdair and Matt have been busy patrolling The Village and working hard to ‘keep the peace’ for the benefit of all residents. We have received a lot of very positive feedback for the excellent job that they are doing, most notably at the last AGM, and so we are keen to extend their current contract for a further two years which will take it to 31st March 2021.

CCTV was introduced earlier last year and is located on the warden’s hut by the entrance to The Village. We believe it acts as a strong deterrent to potential criminal activity and anti social behaviour and it has proved very helpful with assisting the police to catch perpetrators. As outlined at the last AGM we now intend to extend the CCTV coverage at The Village by introducing a 3rd camera close to the end of the Arc and near the playground which will provide good coverage of the northern and western end of The Village. We are also installing an ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition) camera close to The Village entrance on Guards Avenue with the aim of helping to detect and deter crime and therefore providing greater protection to residents.

The Village Association is very grateful for the hard work and expertise of John West and his team in enabling all these developments to happen.