Or, how the draft NPPF just gaslit half the population
“[The draft NPPF has] no references whatsoever to women, girls, gendered safety, or violence against women in the built environment. This omission matters. The places we design and build shape how safe women and girls feel when they travel, work, socialise and grow up. Planning policy is one of the most powerful structural tools the state has to prevent harm before it occurs. If the NPPF is silent on gendered safety, we embed risk and inequality into the fabric of every new development.” – Anna Sabine MP & Gideon Amos MP
Is it really true that, in the eyes of the government, if you’re a woman or a girl, your safety and any misogyny you might encounter while out and about has nothing whatsoever to do with planning?
Find out in this week’s Sketch…
#placemaking #womenssafety #NPPF #urbanism #janejacobs #amirite #newtowns #urbandesign