Crime Prevention (Urban Design)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 9 February 2015.

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Photo of Lynne Featherstone Lynne Featherstone The Minister of State, Home Department 2:30, 9 February 2015

I thank my hon. Friend, who is almost indistinguishable from the Prince of Wales. We have no current plans to conduct research on the impact of modern architecture and design on crime and antisocial behaviour, but we keep an open mind on all ideas. A Home Office-funded project published in 2010 looked at the crime experience of six contemporary housing schemes and its findings led to the development of valuable design principles on creating safe places to live for use by the police, architects and others. Anyone using their common sense when commissioning and designing a building would, obviously, wish to design out crime.