"In a letter to the housing minister Matthew Pennycook and the safeguarding minister Jess Phillips, as first reported in the Planner, they wrote: 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."
"When contacted by the Guardian about the letter, a Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) spokesperson said: The NPPF is a planning document. It sets out guidelines for housebuilding and planning in England. The VAWG strategy is about protecting women and girls from violence and misogyny. They said it was unclear as to why anyone would expect the two things to be combined and therefore it was difficult to respond to the criticism."
The draft National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) contains no references to women, girls, gendered safety, or violence against women in the built environment. Draft planning proposals were published two days before the government's Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) strategy and alongside part 2 of the Angiolini inquiry, both of which call for women's safety to be embedded into the planning of public spaces. Liberal Democrat MPs Anna Sabine and Gideon Amos warned that silence on gendered safety in planning policy would embed risk and inequality into the fabric of new developments. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said planning guidance and VAWG policy are separate and ministers had not formally responded to the letter.
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