The Create Streets team were delighted to recently attend the launch of the new Colouring London platform and support the fantastic work of Polly Hudson in partnership with University College London. Colouring London is a free website designed by University College London that collects, collates, visualises and allows people to download statistical data about every […]
Far too many political commentators assume that state intervention in land use decisions ‘started’ with the 1947 Town and Country Planning Act, and is mainly about the green belt preventing urban expansion.
On February 21st Create Streets and Onward hosted the Creating Communities 2019 conference and U+I’s headquarters in central London. The speech by John Myers of London YIMBY and the YIMBY Alliance is reproduced below: In 2017 our campaign said villages that wanted to build more homes next to the village in their own green belt should be allowed […]
Yesterday Create Streets and Onward hosted the Creating Communities 2019 conference and U+I’s headquarters in central London. An incredibly broad range of people and perspectives gathered for a day of discussions, presentations and debate; the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government; the Chairman of Homes England; the Chief Planner; Tony Pidgley; landowners, […]
Now that we’ve been going for just over two months we wanted to write a little about our mission. We exist because we think there is a gap in urbanist advocacy in the US that needs to be filled. There are many fantastic groups already encouraging planning solutions from transit-oriented development, to zoning reform, to […]
Create Streets Fellow, Sofie Pringle, asks if user happiness can create a more successful neighbourhood. Creating the successful neighbourhood is important, especially in an increasingly urbanising environment. Happiness is a critical component of this. If we could distil the ‘happiness’ feeling that a person experiences in a given space, irrespective of the social activities and […]
Frothy coffees. Funky spaces. Great neighbours. Green rooves. Walking to everything. Watching the sun go down from your exclusive eyrie. To read the PR patter of a hundred sales brochures right now is to realise that high-rise heaven is round the corner and up the lift-shaft. We have learnt, proclaim sleek developers and confident architects, […]
Kieran Toms, reflects on yesterday’s announcements on planning reform. Yesterday it was that time again – the red briefcase was dusted off and the budget was revealed. As well as the big headline announcements, the Budget review on Planning Reform also emerged from the Budget Box. Here at Create Streets we were very pleased to see that some […]
High street expert and friend of Create Streets, John Parmiter, considers yesterdays Budget announcement on Britain’s high streets…. At last! The Future High Street Fund. The Government has really woken up to the plight of the High Street with some real money and a focus on real local change, not frothy short-term projects. The pot […]
Beauty remains a problem for many in design, something that is very difficult to talk about. We have heard esteemed colleagues saying they would not pronounce publicly the word “beauty” because that would damage their reputations as academics and scientists. The same could be said of the word “feeling”. Engaging with these basic, fundamental human […]