Research Proposal: Safe Housing Environmental Planning

1.0 Introduction
1.1 Research Problem
1.1.1 Safe Housing Environment Planning Planning and development of a safe housing environment should be implemented in a timely manner. Achieving good environment design is about creating places, buildings, or spaces that work well for everyone, look good, last well, and will adapt to the needs of future generations. Good design responds in a practical and creative way to both the function and identity of a place. It puts land, water, drainage, energy, community, economic, infrastructure and other such resources to the best possible use – over the long as well as the short term (Planning Practice Guidance, 2013). The challenges in the planning aspects do not only focus on economic growth but also to ensure

Quality of life implies those attributes catering for the diversified and growing aspiration of citizens that go beyond the satisfaction of basic needs (Habibullah, 2008). Sustainable human settlement depends on the creation of a better environment for human health and well-being which will improve the living conditions of people and decrease disparities in the quality of their lives (Douglas D. Perkins, 1993).
1.1.2 Residential crimes rates The Malaysian housing is apprehensive of the rise in crime in the past few years. Malaysia has been experiencing accelerated urbanization since the last three decades which results in increasing crime rate in residential areas (Sidhu, 2015). The crime rates in Malaysia in the last three decades (1985-2015) rose between 1 to 8% per year. More than 80% of the crime committed during this period were related to property crimes such as burglary, vehicle theft, and larceny (Habibullah, 2008)
Malaysia’s crime index recorded a 4.6 per cent increase in 2015 due to an increase in property crimes. Federal police Crime Prevention and Community Safety Department director Datuk Acryl Sani Abdullah Sani said a total of 38,877 crimes involving properties were recorded in 2015 (Shahrudin,

Residential crime can be prevented by applying a good housing design during the planning process and also by maintaining the elements. Madanipour (2006) discovered that elements such as physical layout, housing typology and the outlook of the surrounding environment will prevent crime from occurring therefore creating a safe environment that contribute to a better living quality for people in the cities. The manipulation of the physical urban elements as a crime prevention strategy such as CPTED is a more cost effective strategy for the local authorities in creating a safe city leading towards a sustainable urban environment.
CPTED is an acronym for crime prevention through environmental design which asserts that “the proper design and effective use of the built environment which can lead to a reduction in the fear and incidence of crime, and an improvement in the quality of life. The Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED) approach emphasizes on the elimination of opportunities for the occurrences of crime through planning and design (Minnery, 2005). The modification of the physical environmental elements is seen to be able to reduce the possibility of