New front doors to improve home safety

500 residents, across the borough, are to set to receive new
‘Secure- by- Design’ doors to replace the old, standard type
front door.

The doors, which are police–approved and tested to meet high security standards, are to be fitted to tenanted homes in areas where security is a concern.

Tower Hamlets Homes has teamed up with the council’s Safer Neighbourhood Team and Anti Social Behaviour Prevention and Enforcement Manager to identify homes most in need of the new doors.

The doors are also designed to improve insulation as well as security, and could help residents save energy and reduce heating costs.  

Works to install the doors began in February and is due to finish in April 2010.