Designing Out Crime
Secured By Design Does It Work?
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Secured by Design (SBD) is an award scheme, run by the Association of Chief Police Officers, which aims to encourage housing developers to design out crime, with a particular emphasis on domestic burglary, at the planning stage. Briefing Note 7/00, An Evaluation of Secured by Design Housing Within West Yorkshire, presents reliable indications of its success from an evaluation originally commissioned by the West Yorkshire Police. It was published in September 2000.
The evaluation of SBD housing in the West Yorkshire area originally took place between April and October 1999. The aims were:
To establish whether crime is lower on the West Yorkshire SBD estates to which it was applied.
To establish whether residents living within SBD estates feel safer in their homes and on the streets surrounding their homes.
To ascertain to what extent any reductions in burglary offences, restricted by increased security, are simply being displaced onto alternative offences.
To identify any weaknesses within SBD estates, focusing in particular upon the points and methods of entry.
Findings of the original report have now been updated to include the 11 month period following on from the period used for the original study. In addition, some preliminary research has been undertaken to determine what extra costs are involved in building estates to SBD standard.
An Evaluation of Secured by Design Housing Within West Yorkshire - Briefing Note 7/00 
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Last update: Thursday, August 28, 2008