Secured By Design Garden

The Metropolitan Police Service has this ethos at its forefront and has been working with SBD since 1989 to implement the principles, not just in buildings but the outdoor space. The Met Police have partnered with Capel Manor College for many years and currently have a Secured by Design garden on display for the public at Capel’s Enfield Centre. Building on this initiative they are excited to showcase a secure yet beautiful garden at the prestigious RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show this year, raising awareness about crime prevention.

A brief was submitted to Capel Manor College’s Garden Design students; the competition was to create a safe, secure and sustainable urban garden. Lucy Glover and Jaqueline Poll were joint winners and are excited to build their first Hampton Court garden. Their aim is to demonstrate the Secured by Design and sustainability features in a striking, urban garden.

The garden will have a calming atmosphere with tones of grey in the hard landscaping, a reflection pool and soft relaxed planting including beautiful perennials and grasses. Security measures include columnar trees and the rotating bars of the pergola to preventing climbing.

Green screens will provide a sustainable secure privacy fence solution along the boundaries and offer air cleansing properties helping to reduce pollution. Prickly plants and gravel placed close to the house will act as a further deterrent. As part of the garden’s ethos of helping the community the plants used in the garden will be relocated to two community groups and a primary school in a deprived area of London.

Plant list