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  • MAG Principles – Ending Violence Against Women and Girls through the Built Environment

    Topics:
    • Regeneration, 
    • Ministerial Advisory Group for Architecture and the Built Environment

    Date published: 11 May 2026

    This is the fourth in a series of MAG Principles documents, which will examine our built environment and identify a range of important design issues that we need to address in making our cities, towns, villages, and rural communities better places in which to live, work and play.

    This particular document considers how we design built environments to ensure safety and prevent violence against women and girls.  This document illustrates key principles that help create building and spaces that are sustainable, support the economy and improve our wellbeing.

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