Designing Out Crime

At Lomond we recognise the importance of promoting good design and layout in new developments and ensuring integration with their surroundings. Attractive and well-designed environments can encourage a sense of pride and ownership amongst residents and create community wellbeing. Good design and layout can also make crime more difficult to commit, increase the likelihood that any criminal activity is detected and improve public perception of safety.

At the Lomond Group, care is taken at the early stages in environmental and building design to create areas that are welcoming, pleasant and feel safe. To ensure our housing developments meet the highest standard of design and layout, we work closely with Fife Constabulary (www.fife.police.uk) and local communities to create safe and pleasant environments. Lomond Group takes an active role alongside Fife Constabulary to promote design out crime principles, and regularly makes presentations on this matter at the Scottish Police College.

"The principles of ’Secured by Design’, when implemented at the design stage, are a very cost effective way of ensuring security is maintained in a development, providing public reassurance and minimising the risk of crime. Secured by Design can be applied to any aspect of building development, from housing to hotels and hospitals to commercial developments – in fact any area within the built environment" says Stuart Ward, Fife Police Force Architectural Liaison Officer.