Guidance

High secure building design guide: overarching principles - for Ashworth, Broadmoor, Rampton Hospitals

Guidance document outlining high level planning and design principles for high secure hospitals

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Published: 30 November 2010

Applies to England

Documents

High secure building design guide: overarching principles for Ashworth, Broadmoor, Rampton Hospitals

PDF, 230 KB, 22 pages

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Details

This guide replaces the Physical Security Requirements document published by the Special Hospitals Service Authority in 1996.

The guide is in two parts - this overarching principles document and a technical design guide with associated drawings. The latter is held on a restricted basis by licensed provider organisations, and will be made available to design consultants under certain controls, which are set out the in the Technical design guide.

Published 30 November 2010