Government Office NorthEast Development Management Event

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Government Office North-East Development
Management Event

• Colin Petter
• Crowded Places Team
• Protect Unit
• Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism
• 30 April 2009

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PROTECT AIMS

• PROTECT aims to reduce the vulnerability of the
  UK. There are eight objectives arranged around
  reducing the vulnerability of
• Crowded places
• The Critical National Infrastructure (CNI)
• The transport system and its users
• The UK to insider action
• CBRNE (hazardous) sites and substances
• Individuals at risk from terrorism
• The UK Border to terrorism and
• UK interests overseas.

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Lord West review of Crowded Places

• Lord West review (July September 07) outcome
  announced by Prime Minister in November 2007.
• Concluded that
• Substantial amount of work had been undertaken
  but more could be done to provide more advice
  and turn available advice into action on the
  ground.
• This is not a job for the Government or police
  alone. More engagement with local authorities,
  local partners and in particular businesses to
  encourage them to implement counter-terrorist
  security advice.
• Protective security measures need to be
  proportionate to risk. A risk-based approach to
  assessing where to prioritise resources.
• A lot we can do to reduce the risk from terrorism
  in how we design and plan buildings and places.
  Do more to raise awareness and skills amongst
  industry and professional bodies.

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Guiding Principles

• Delivery is underpinned by seven guiding
  principles
• Risk based approach
• Proportionality
• Partnership working
• Local ownership
• Appropriate and flexible use of regulatory
  powers
• Funding and
• Ownership of risk.

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Crowded Places

• What weve done
• Increased investment in Police Counter Terrorism
  Security Advisers.
• Protective security advice given to over 11,000
  venues.
• Government making over 5m available to support
  future work.
• Since Jan 2007, over 900 ARGUS training exercises
  delivered.
• Completed risk assessment across crowded places
  in the UK.
• What were doing
• Argus Professional and Planning.
• A university CT design competition.
• Targeted communications Lord West articles in
  professional journals.
• Published for public consultation two key
  guidance documents supporting crowded places
  work.

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Working Together to Protect Crowded Places

• National guidance to encourage greater
  partnership working at the local level. Gives
  details of
• How risk is assessed
• How performance is measured
• The roles of key partners and
• How to reduce vulnerability.
• Document is key to turning advice into action on
  the ground emphasises partnership working.

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Safer Places Counter Terrorism Supplement

• A supplement to the existing Safer Places Crime
  Prevention and the Planning System guidance.
• A joint Home Office and Communities and Local
  Government (CLG) guidance document.
• Content shaped and drafted by a Working Group of
  representative key stakeholders
• NaCTSO
• Centre for the Protection of the National
  Infrastructure (CPNI)
• Commission for Architecture and the Built
  Environment (CABE)
• Royal Town and Planning Institution (RTPI)
• Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)
• Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)
• Home Office Crime Prevention
• CLG
• City of London Planning Department.

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Safer Places Counter Terrorism Supplement

• Aims
• Raise awareness that
• Designing in counter-terrorism measures at the
  outset is the most cost effective way to reduce
  opportunities for terrorists.
• Planning process is an important tool to help
  protect us from terrorism.
• Provide practical guidance on how improvements
  can be made, including use of case studies.
• Encourage use of imagination by designers and
  architects and early engagement with planners.

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Safer Places Counter Terrorism Supplement

• Status
• Material consideration no one size fits all
  but have to consider CT alongside other
  considerations taken into account in reaching
  planning decisions.
• Section 17 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998
• Key challenges
• Economic pressure to cut costs in design process.
• Maintaining awareness of CT in the
  planning/design community.

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CT Design Principles

• Arrangements that
• Deter, Detect, Delay.
• Achieved by applying principles of
• Better blast resistance
• Better building management facilities
• Better traffic management and hostile vehicle
  mitigation measures
• Better surveillance

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Risk
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Effective police (ALO/CTSA) involvement in the
preparation of planning applications
Section 17 Crime and Disorder Act, Planning and
Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 and related
Statutory Instruments
PPS1 and Safer Places (including Counter
Terrorism Supplement)
Policy/Guidance Development Management Preparation
of planning application
Stages where police involvement is most effective
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Consultation questions

• Welcome all consultation responses (see Section
  3, page 32, paragraph 11). In particular
• Whether the arrangements in the guidance result
  in proportionate action at a local level?
• Does section 1 sufficiently set out the nature of
  the threat and why designing in CT is
  necessary?
• Does the guidance provide sufficient information
  to persuade you of the importance to integrate
  counter-terrorism measures into new developments,
  including the public realm?
• Does the guidance explain counter-terrorism and
  where it fits in the planning system?

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Consultation Process

• Documents available via the Home Office website.
• Consultation runs until 10th July
• Responses are requested by email to
• CrowdedPlacesConsultation_at_homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk
• or by post to
• Crowded Places Team
• Home Office
• Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism
• 5th Floor Peel
• 2 Marsham Street
• London
• SW1P 4DF

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• Contact
• Colin Petter
• OSCT Protect
• Colin.Petter_at_homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk
• (020 7035 0089