Anti-social behaviour fears have prompted Sutton Council to quickly install aluminium shutters at a new café.

Sutton Green Café, in Sutton High Street, has had £10,000 set aside from a £52,536 pot in a bid to bolster its security.

The coffee house was formerly a block of disused public toilets which were shut in 2003 due to anti-social behaviour and vandalism issues.

Now concerns of these old problems cropping up again have provoked a decision to be taken under “urgency procedure” plans.

Mary Morrissey, the council’s strategic director of environment, housing and regeneration, said: “The Sutton Local Committee wish to allocate £10,000 of public realm capital funding to install aluminium shutters to the newly built Sutton Green Café located in Sutton North.

“Recent anti-social behaviour in the area has raised concerns around the security of the building and it is felt that the installation of shutters would secure the building when unattended by the proprietor and mitigate any risk.”

Ms Morrissey says the decision is being sped up because the Sutton Local Committee, which agrees to projects like this, doesn’t meet again until December 13.

The £10,000 in funding needs to be released now so the works can be completed quickly and cut out any possible delays.

Now the approved project will leave the committee with £42,536 in public realm capital funding, according to Ms Morrissey’s report.