Thursday, October 19, 2006
STATION SAFETY
HERNE HILL STATION SAFETY.
Val Shawcross the Greater London Assembly member for Lambeth and Southwark conducted a survey in the Herne Hill Ward earlier this year to establish the public perception on safety around stations.
A meeting was held recently with South EasternTrains,and British Transport Police and represntatives from the Herne Hill Forum
The following points were covered at the meeting.
1. Transport police have just appointed the equivalent of a Safer Neighbourhood Team
who will liasie with borough SNTs and they will be proactive on matters such as begging and school children problems etc. as a current priority.
2. There is money for two lifts and this is in the planning/ preparation stage.
This is excellent as its part of a £350m national 10 year budget .
There were only 10 stations nominated in London to use this fund and three were in Lambeth.
3. We had wider ranging discussion about radical change of use of the building to increase usage and footfall over a longer period.
4. The upper part of the building is kitted out as a disaster co-ordinatation centre in the event of major incidents and central control points for the networks.
5. There will be upgrading of CCTV cameras. At present they record video films the new ones will transmit to a control centre with live monitoring of screens.
6. "Assist points" will have cameras focused on them which will automnatically
draw the focus of the monitoring officer when used.
7. There will gradual installation of oyster readers but not barriers.
8. There are limitations caused by the short term contracts to installing barriers .
as well runnigns cost implications.
Following the meeting we gave Val Shawcross a briefing on the junction as it was her intervention that got the funding for the initial survey.
.
One of the problems that cause the dragging during the last three years was that it
was TFL who wanted the scheme and Lambeth had no priority for it.
We then toured the Arches behind Norwood Road shops and walked right to the very last arch as part of our strategy of winning support for imrovements and investment in this area.
Val Shawcross the Greater London Assembly member for Lambeth and Southwark conducted a survey in the Herne Hill Ward earlier this year to establish the public perception on safety around stations.
A meeting was held recently with South EasternTrains,and British Transport Police and represntatives from the Herne Hill Forum
The following points were covered at the meeting.
1. Transport police have just appointed the equivalent of a Safer Neighbourhood Team
who will liasie with borough SNTs and they will be proactive on matters such as begging and school children problems etc. as a current priority.
2. There is money for two lifts and this is in the planning/ preparation stage.
This is excellent as its part of a £350m national 10 year budget .
There were only 10 stations nominated in London to use this fund and three were in Lambeth.
3. We had wider ranging discussion about radical change of use of the building to increase usage and footfall over a longer period.
4. The upper part of the building is kitted out as a disaster co-ordinatation centre in the event of major incidents and central control points for the networks.
5. There will be upgrading of CCTV cameras. At present they record video films the new ones will transmit to a control centre with live monitoring of screens.
6. "Assist points" will have cameras focused on them which will automnatically
draw the focus of the monitoring officer when used.
7. There will gradual installation of oyster readers but not barriers.
8. There are limitations caused by the short term contracts to installing barriers .
as well runnigns cost implications.
Following the meeting we gave Val Shawcross a briefing on the junction as it was her intervention that got the funding for the initial survey.
.
One of the problems that cause the dragging during the last three years was that it
was TFL who wanted the scheme and Lambeth had no priority for it.
We then toured the Arches behind Norwood Road shops and walked right to the very last arch as part of our strategy of winning support for imrovements and investment in this area.
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