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Representation ID: 66648

Received: 26/06/2014

Respondent: Place Partnership Limited (PPL)

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Yes

There is concern that Policy HS7's current wording asserts that design measures alone will ensure that developments enjoy low crime and antisocial behaviour rates, thereby ensuring community safety.

This is not to say Secured by Design measures won't reduce crime levels, they certainly will, as detailed elsewhere in our representations. However even when applied to the maximum possible extent, they can never reduce crime and anti-social behaviour rates in a development to zero. There will always be a necessity for policing and emergency services to deal with those incidents and crimes that occur no matter what design measures are put in place. That is why there is no such thing as a development policed entirely through architectural means.

The current wording of HS7 is surprising, not only because of the above reason, but because the Council's 'Draft Infrastructure Delivery Plan - April 2014' recognises that police and emergency services infrastructure will need to be provided if sustainable development in the District is to be achieved. The Plan also implicitly recognises that funding will be needed from Section 106 agreements and the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) to deliver this infrastructure.