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COMMUNITY SAFETY UNIT
URBANBUZZ PRESENTATION: DESIGNING OUT
CRIME IN NEWHAM
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Reference number:
0014
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J Cave
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The Context
• The 2005 Mid-Year Estimate by age shows that 39.7% of
Newham’s population is under the age of 25 compared
to 32% for Greater London.
• 1st (or 2nd) most ethnically diverse borough in London
• Newham had the highest fertility rate of all London
boroughs in 2005, over 12% higher than the next
borough, Hackney/City of London.
• Lowest female life expectancy in London
• 4th most deprived London borough (11th nationally)
• (source: Focus on Newham 2007)
Crime/ASB
• High volume borough – currently 4th in London for overall
crime volume (met.police.uk) but 7th highest crime rate
(IQuanta)
• Crime down 4% (YTD/previous YTD comparison at 31st
Oct) (IQuanta)
• Key reductions: overall serious acquisitive crime 11.7%,
robbery 33.2%, knife crime 33.7%, gun crime 24.3%
(Weekly Scorecard at 23rd Nov YTD comparisons)
• ASB: 44% increase between 06/07 and 07/08 (FLARE)
but decreasing since Mar 08
• Flytipping and noise account for around 60% of all ASB
calls (07/08 FLARE)
Environmental disorder
Designing out crime
• Primarily ‘target hardening’/situational
prevention
– Knife arches
– Improving security at key burglary hotspots
– Improving security for domestic violence
victims
– Street-lighting improvements
– Alley-gating
The future?
• ODA 2012 area and legacy
• Up to 40% of land currently designated for
industrial and other employment use to be
used in a different way.
• Up to 50,000 houses and flats by 2020
(Source: Newham Exec Summary – Core
Strategy Preferred Options)
ODA Park Area
Regeneration area – case study
• Designing out crime embedded within
CTCH Supplementary Planning Document
• Key principles: movement
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Activity Street A vibrant enhanced route with social and community uses
(including schools, nursery, health facilities and parks) with provision to
accommodate further uses as they arise. Other uses along the street will
include large open spaces, formal exercise areas and event areas to create
activity at street level.
Residential Street A new route primarily fronted by housing and accessible
to all.Dwellings overlooking the street will offer informal
surveillance,improving safety and security. The street will also front
woodlands, local play areas and communal gardens.
Key principles – CHCRT Regen
• Improved transport and pedestrian/cycle links
• ‘Pepper-potting’ of affordable housing
• Opening up space at key centres (Canning town and Custom
House)
• Maximising natural surveillance – active frontages, open space,
Improved street lighting,
• High-quality paving, finishes, street furniture and public art.
• Mixed use centres – round the clock use and surveillance
• Retaining open/green spaces
• Managing density/building size
• Design out crime standards for new homes
CTCH Regen proposed density
Canning Town Custom House SPD
– key flows
Core Strategy
Key points
• Extension of regen principles across
borough?
• Monitoring of design standards
• Shift to proactive rather than reactive
approach
• Future applicability/relevance of Space
Syntax principles
• New approaches to crime
analysis/problem identification?