A CCTV scheme to boost security on a Brighton housing estate is set to win approval next week.
Six cameras costing £274,385 will monitor the North Moulsecoomb estate in east Brighton 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
The scheme is expected to be approved by Brighton and Hove Council's policy and resources committee on Wednesday and should be fully operational by early June.
The cameras will be part-funded by the Government's New Deal for Communities scheme, which identified areas of deprivation throughout the UK and targeted them with cash to improve residents' quality of life.
The rest of the money will come from the Home Office, Sussex Police and the city council.
The cameras will be housed in blue domes on poles and it will be impossible to tell which way they are pointing.
Residents on the estate have chosen where the cameras, which are monitored by the police, will be sited.
One will be placed at St George's Hall; looking down Newick Road, Lewes Road and Ringmer Close. Another will be in front of shops in Barcombe Road. A third will be in Newick Road near Chailey Road slip-road. The others will be near the children's playground; in Chailey Road; and in Newick Road.
Newick Road resident Hamish MacKenzie, a member of the North Moulsecoomb Residents' Association, said: "This will have a dramatic effect on the estate."
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