Safer Places – The Planning System and Crime Prevention

Contents

Foreword 5

1 Safe and sustainable communities 7

Purpose of the guide 7

Who Should Read The Guide 9

Preparing The Guide 9

Principles of crime prevention 10

2 The attributes of safe, sustainable places 13

Achieving the attributes 14

Access and movement: places with well-defined routes, spaces and entrances

that provide for convenient movement without compromising security 16

Structure: places that are laid out so that crime is discouraged and different uses do not cause conflict 20

Surveillance: places where all publicly accessible spaces are overlooked 24

Ownership: places that promote a sense of ownership, respect, territorial responsibility and community 30

Physical protection: Races that include necessary, well-designed security features 34

Activity: Places where the level of human activity is appropriate to the location and creates a reduced risk of crime and a sense of safety at all times 36

Management and maintenance: Places that are designed with management and maintenance in mind, to discourage crime in the present and the future 40

3 The Planning And Crime Prevention Toolkit 45

Working in context 45

Local development frameworks 47

Development control 49

Annex 1: The case studies 53

Cromer Street, Camden 54

Northview, Swanley 56

Royds, Bradford 58

Allcourt, Fairford and The Orchard, Lechdale 60