🚩 🚩 🚩 Brighton Council is prepared to put women and children in harm’s way in its pursuit of mixed-sex changing rooms at its leisure centre. Its risk assessment stating that a mixed-sex changing village will have a ‘positive benefit’ flies in the face of the actual evidence that sexual predators use mixed-sex changing rooms to target women and children in a state of undress. Our research of police data from all over the country shows that 86-88% of crimes in changing rooms in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and 100% in Scotland, took place in MIXED-SEX facilities. (Single-sex changing rooms accounted for 12-14% of changing rooms crimes in E, W and NI.) The council seems hell-bent on designing-in harm to its female residents and will require the leisure centre operator, Freedom Leisure, to provide extra staff training. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Here’s a thought: how about designing OUT the harm by providing single-sex changing rooms as standard, with separate family changing rooms for those who need it? Seems obvious to most ordinary people that deliberately designing a changing room that will attract sexual predators might (will) cause problems down the line… The safest changing room is a single-sex changing room.