Community Safety Audits (CPTED) | tangible-planning-

crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED)

Community safety assessments provide an opportunity to identify potential issues and to develop design and planning solutions which can help minimise the potential for criminal behaviour. The CPTED approach aims to create an environment that will encourage users to feel safe, alert persons considering committing criminal or anti-social acts that the risks of detection, challenge and of being detained or arrested are such that it is not worth pursuing the act.

The objectives of an assessment and any subsequent recommendations are to:

Ensure that issues of community safety and crime prevention are adequately considered in the development and associated activities; and
Aid the integration of safety and security concerns throughout the development design and assessment process for all private and public users.

The central theme of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) is that it is possible to use knowledge and creativity to design particular built environments in ways that lessen or prevent the incidence of such crime.

For all CPTED assessments we undertake an analysis of the general location, including an evaluation of crime rates and stability, as well as core design shortcomings of the physical environment (e.g. blind hallways, uncontrolled entries or abandoned areas that attract problem behavior). This is followed by the application of CPTED principles, including a threat and vulnerability analysis to determine the potential for attack and what needs to be protected in order to:

Increase the effort to commit crime
Increase the risks associated with crime
Reduce the rewards associated with crime
Remove the excuses as to why people do not comply with rules and behave inappropriately

The CPTED principles are used in a flexible manner to maximise the opportunities presented by a particular development. The application of CPTED in the built environment can reduce opportunity for, and the likelihood of crime. The development and/or redevelopment of sites allow the opportunity to incorporate CPTED principles into both the design of development and operational aspects.

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