KINGSCLIFF business owner Kelly Craig is worried that vandalism and anti-social behaviour in the village will be pushed outside her front door if security cameras are only installed along part of Marine Parade.

"Once it is known that the Closed Circuit Television cameras (CCTV) are only installed along part of the street, the people that want to cause trouble will just go where there are no cameras and muck up," the owner of Chill and Grill Cafe at the southern end of Marine Parade said yesterday.

"The businesses and public areas at this end of Kings- cliff have just as much a problem with vandalism and drunken behaviour as the area near the pub and caravan park."

A federal government grant of $120,000 has been given to the Tweed Shire Council to install an unmanned 24-hour CCTV system along Marine Parade between Turnock Street and the Fig Tree roundabout in Seaview Street.

With the deadline for tenders to install the system closing yesterday, the security system should be installed by Christmas, a council spokeswoman said.

"The cameras will cover the area along Marine Parade from Turnock Street to Seaview Street, principally focusing on areas around the surf club and hotel," she said.

"These are areas identified by the police as the major sites of anti-social behaviour in Kingscliff."

Whether cameras located in Seaview Street would capture acts of vandalism and anti-social behaviour in the Cudgen Surf Life Saving Club car park was questioned by Ms Craig, who has lived in Kingscliff for more than 15 years.

"Last Saturday our coffee signs that we had along the street were stolen and ended up in the front yard, on top of the clothes line, of a house down near Cudgen Creek," she said.

"Every weekend the pot plants along Marine Parade end up in the middle of the street or tipped over.

"Having the cameras along this end would also provide more security for residents who live nearby, and have to deal with drunken behaviour every weekend."

President of the Kingscliff and District Chamber of Commerce Alan McIntosh said the chamber would work with council to apply for more funding for CCTV at the southern end of Marine Parade and Pearl Street.