SBD Guidance Documents

Document superceded by SBD Homes 2016.

The 2014 edition of SBD New Homes addresses the community safety and security requirements for most types of housing development including individual houses, housing estates, low and high-rise apartment blocks.

A sensible and practical level of security, which will not adversely affect the efficient running of the school, is essential to a successful teaching and learning environment. The police service places great importance upon the need to build sustainable developments. This not only includes the need to use environmental friendly products, materials and construction methods, but also the need to raise awareness of the fact that crime prevention is a positive sustainability issue.

The Secured by Design Hospitals Guide seeks to create a safe and secure working environment for patients, medical professionals and visitors, the provision of which should significantly reduce the opportunity for crime.

This document provides design guidance and specification requirements for reducing the risks for crimes against the person and property. This document encapsulates both commercial developments where the public have no formal access e.g. factory or office buildings, and those where public access is integral to the commercial use such as retail premises, leisure centres and public buildings.

Document superceded by SBD Homes 2016.

The 2010 edition of SBD New Homes addresses the community safety and security requirements for most types of housing development including individual
houses, housing estates and low rise apartment blocks up to a maximum of five stories above ground level. The design and layout and physical security sections of this edition can be applied to both new and refurbished homes, regardless of their existing or future tenure.

In addition to the Secured by Design New Homes standard, the points covered in this document are considered necessary and must be included within the development.

The Safer Tram Award is aimed at those tram operated fixed rail systems which now operate throughout the United Kingdom. Its aim is to reduce the opportunities for criminal and anti-social behaviour from taking place at tram stops and requires the operators of the system to take cognisance of crime patterns at, and the environment of the stop, passengers’ perceptions of security and the management practices adopted by the operator.

The 2016 edition of the Secured by Design guidance for domestic properties has been designed to cater for the security of all homes, not just new homes as previously published. It incorporates the latest security standards, developed to address emerging criminal methods of attack, and includes
references to the Building Regulations and other statutory requirements across the United Kingdom. The guidance also serves the legacy needs of the outgoing Code for Sustainable Homes.