Secured by Design - Interactive Toolkit

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Planting should not impede the opportunity for natural surveillance and must avoid the creation of potential hiding places. As a general recommendation, where good visibility is needed, shrubs should be selected to have a mature growth height no higher than 1 metre, and trees should have no foliage below 2 metres, thereby allowing a 1 metre clear field of vision. (Sect 18. New Homes 2010)
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Trees and hedges have grown to form a visual barrier at the front of the houses, impeding the opportunity for natural surveillance and creating a potential hiding places.

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