Designing Safer Streets: a CPTED Workshop for Retail Success

Join us to learn practical strategies for safer, more vibrant shopfronts and main streets

This interactive workshop introduces Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) and placemaking principles tailored for retail, hospitality, and business operators. You’ll explore simple, place-based strategies to improve safety, street appeal, and customer experience.

Through case studies, group activities, and local examples, the workshop blends practical learning with hands-on activities to give you ideas that can be applied immediately to your shopfront, business, or retail precinct.

Participants will leave with greater awareness, practical tools, and an action list tailored to their local business context, helping to create streets and shopfronts that are safe, welcoming, and commercially successful.

Who is this for?

This workshop is for those creating, curating, and leading place experiences.

·       Local business owners

·       Retail and hospitality operators

·       Traders’ associations and business groups

What you'll learn

Through presentations, hands-on brainstorming activities and group discussion you will:

• Get familiarised with regenerative placemaking and Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED)

• Explore how placemaking and CPTED work together to boost safety and street appeal

• Strategies for safer, vibrant main streets including social and physical aspects of the place

• Opportunities to integrate safety into day-to-day business management.

Why should I join?

Participants will leave with new learnings and tools to improve safety, street appeal and costumer experience as well as with a curated action list helping them integrate these concepts in their day-to-day operations.

Course Format:

• In-person

• 1.5 hour session

  • Presentation

  • Interactive with group activities

Dates and Locations

• Palmerston: Durack Community Art Centre’s Creative Room, 33 Packard Ave, Durack, Tuesday 21st October - 2:00-3:30pm

• Katherine: Big Rivers Room, 5 First Street Katherine 0850 , Wednesday 22nd October - 4:00-5:30pm

• Alice Springs, Monday 27th October (Venue TBC) - 10:00-11:30am

Presenters and facilitators