1.2 Public Space
Protection Order
File Ref. 1A
The Public Space Protection Order (PSPO) was created
as part of Anti-Social behaviour legislation (Anti-social
Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014), restricting civic
freedoms in public space within a notional redlined zone. It
displaces the location of so-called anti social acts from the
individual to a geographical zone. This political spatialisation
of a social condition has physical implications on both
the present experience of the city, particularly for the
migrant groups it targets and on future development and
infrastructural networks which impacts a wider public.