Resources
Reference material for people running business improvement districts and commercial estates. These guides explain how the schemes, the funding and the legal standards actually work. Every one shows the date its sources were last checked, because funding programmes and legal standards change.
DPIAs for district CCTV and ANPR
When a district camera scheme legally needs a data protection impact assessment, what it has to contain, and the commonly published rules that turn out not to be rules at all.
CCTV retention, evidence and police requests
How long to keep footage, what makes a police disclosure lawful, what makes an export usable in court, and who controls the recordings on a site with many occupiers.
Funding an estate CCTV scheme
The funding routes for an estate or town-centre camera scheme, who has to approve each one, and how long that actually takes.
Looking for deployments rather than guidance? We have written up two district schemes in detail — West Chester BID and Clacksfirst BID. Everything else we publish sits on the blog.