Planners called on to help fight crime

Castell, B.

Planners called on to help fight crime - 2004 - Planning (for the Natural and Built Environment) (1568) 7 May 2004, 14-15(2) .

Discusses new government guidance on the role of good planning practice in crime prevention and creating safer communities. "Safer places: the planning system and crime prevention" (ISBN 0727732617), a companion document to PPS1, spells out the key attributes that define safer places and provides a wide range of case studies exemplifying imaginative planning and design responses to crime problems. The guidance is also about making places match sustainable community criteria and the full set of planning objectives. The guidance is available at www.odpm.gov.uk.


LAYOUT STANDARDS
ROUTES
OWNERSHIP
PUBLIC SPACE
PLANNING POLICY STATEMENT ONE
SECURITY
CRIME PREVENTION