Safer Streets
This is obviously a major news topic at the moment because of the tragic events from 2020 that took place in the UK (Sarah Everard and Sabina Nessa), and with Aishling Murphy at the start of 2020. All three are taric cases. A YouGov poll was carried out in the UK in May 2021 (What would make the UK safer for Women?), and you can see from the top 12 results that better lit streets polled highly for both men and women. Also CCTV, but interestingly you can see that there is a clear gender difference.
Funding has been made available, and if you look at Safer Streets – Crime prevention toolkit has been designed to support the delivery of the Safer Streets Fund, a £45m pot made available by the UK Home Office for 2020-22.
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Takes a holistic view of the space and support other interventions eg CCTV, physical security, to intruder alarms, and takes an evidential approach. Looks at the environment – landscaping, footpath usage etc Covers street lighting, as studies show strong evidence that improved street lighting can decrease crime and recommends increased Illumination levels – including vertical.
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Secured by Design – updated 2021
Also Secured by Design, recommends good lighting, defined as a system designed to distribute an appropriate amount of light evenly with uniformity values between 0.25 and 0.40 using lamps with a rating of at least 60 on the colour rendering index.
But is it just about higher illumination levels?
Do we also need to consider about how different people react within different spaces?
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