Participatory design,


professional security and the


UK Built Environment: Why “one route to good


practice” is no longer good enough T


It reflects a planning culture that still treats security as something checked rather than designed. And that should concern all of us working in the built environment.


For more than three decades, the relationship between security, design and planning in the UK has been framed – often


he UK Government’s draft Design and Placemaking Planning Practice Guidance (PPG) – currently under consultation – reveals a mindset that has not kept pace with how places are designed, governed or secured in 2026.


uncritically – by the legacy of Secured by Design (SBD). Launched in 1989, at the height of residential burglary following the mass housing expansion of the 1960s to 1980s, SBD responded to real and pressing failures in construction quality and basic physical security. At the time, it


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