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Date: April 30, 2024 Tue
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1 results foundAuthor: Association of British Insurers Title: Securing the Nation: The Case for Safer Homes Summary: Domestic burglary also has a high social cost. It has a disproportionate impact on the most vulnerable in society, who also have the least home security protection and the least ability to bear the financial impacts of a burglary. Households without any security devices (such as deadlocks, window locks, security lights, CCTV and burglar alarms) are more than four times as likely to be burgled than those with. There is a role for proportionate crime reduction measures to be designed into homes at the very first stages of development and during refurbishment, rather than added as an optional extra after the fact. Building Regulations on security should be developed now so that current opportunities – a relatively benign economic cycle and a push for growth in housing (the London Plan alone identifies the need for 345,000 new homes to be built in London by 2016) – are not lost. The Sustainable and Secure Buildings Act 2004 offers a unique opportunity to address the heavy ongoing costs of crime through developing and implementing a new Part S on minimum standards of security to Building Regulations. An established and well-regarded base – the Association of Chief Police Officers’ initiative Secured By Design (SBD) – already exists from which regulation and supporting guidance should be developed. In particular, SBD’s physical security measures on external doors and windows (the most used points of entry by burglars) provide an appropriate basis for regulation and already provide cross-compliance with existing regulation (such as Part L on energy conservation). In addition to setting a minimum standard for security, Building Regulations can ensure a proportionate response to differing and changing crime risks by requiring a risk assessment and by developing guidance to, and a technical specification of, higher standards. This would also encourage the consideration of the Government’s planning system advice in ‘Safer Places’. Details: London: Association for British Insurers, 2006. 31p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed August 22, 2012 at http://www.securedbydesign.com/professionals/pdfs/Securing%20the%20Nation%20-%20the%20case%20for%20safer%20homes.pdf Year: 2006 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.securedbydesign.com/professionals/pdfs/Securing%20the%20Nation%20-%20the%20case%20for%20safer%20homes.pdf Shelf Number: 126083 Keywords: Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTDesign Against Crime (U.K.)Domestic BurglaryHousing Security (U.K.) |