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 […]
Earlier this week, I had the chance to join a guided tour of Cambridge’s first cohousing project. It has been developed on a greenfield in Orchard Park, an urban expansion in the north of Cambridge, since early 2000s. Originally named as K1, after its masterplan parcel name, it is now known as Marmalade lane. The […]
In his speech to the Labour Party Conference, Jeremy Corbyn spoke about the regeneration process, and we at Create Streets very much welcome his comments and approach. “Regeneration”, said Corbyn, was too often “forced gentrification and social cleansing, as private developers move in and tenants and leaseholders are moved out”. This tallies with many examples we […]