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'Whole system' design has an important role to play in helping policymakers and practitioners address social challenges such as homelessness, crime and in-work poverty, says Cat Drew

An inspector has refused plans to install a gate across the entrance to a cul-de-sac of eight detached houses in Liverpool despite residents’ crime concerns, ruling that ‘segregating’ the area would harm...

An application by a north London branch of Waitrose to combat shoplifting by permanently closing its rear entrance has been rejected by an inspector, who found the scheme would harm the street's designated...

Plans to convert a police station in Birmingham into a ‘supported living centre’ for vulnerable people would provide inadequate amenity space and poor levels of natural light, an inspector has ruled.