Policy information sourced from City of London Local Plan

CS3: Security and Safety

To ensure that the City is secure from crime, disorder and terrorism, has safe systems of transport and is designed and managed to satisfactorily accommodate large numbers of people, thereby increasing public and corporate confidence in the City’s role as the world’s leading international financial and business centre, by:

  1. Ensuring that the dense network of buildings and spaces, including the activities they contain, is designed to be safe, minimising the potential for crime and antisocial behaviour and providing for a mix of uses and natural surveillance of streets and spaces.
  2. Proactively managing night-time entertainment to minimise disturbance to residents and workers.
  3. Implementing measures to enhance the collective security of the City against terrorist threats, applying security measures to broad areas such as the Traffic and Environmental Zone, major development schemes, or to the City as a whole.
  4. Ensuring that security and safety measures are of an appropriate high quality design.
  5. Developing area-based approaches to implementing security measures where a number of large developments are planned or are taking place at the same time, and in locations where occupiers have requested collective security measures. The character and distinctiveness of these areas needs to be taken into account in assessing their suitability for security measures.
  6. Ensuring that development takes account of the need for resilience so that the residential and business communities are better prepared for, and able to recover from, emergencies (including the promotion of business continuity measures).
  7. Ensuring that transport systems are designed to resolve conflicts between the high and growing volume of pedestrians and other road users, by considering safety within the design of routes, stops, stations and interchanges and creating more traffic-free and traffic-calmed areas for pedestrians and cyclists. Measures should contribute to an attractive public realm and will need to be selfenforcing and not rely unduly on police resources.

For more information please see the Local Plan