Since 2020 the team at Create Streets have been working with East Marsh United (EMU) – a community group in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire. EMU’s founder Dr Billy Dasein wrote this article in response to recent violence outside his front door, on Rutland street. The East Marsh is an area of multiple deprivation and could […]

Create Streets’ director, Nicholas Boys Smith, reflects on our recent Restitch summit A few weeks’ ago with our friends at Onward, we ran the Restitch Summit in London and Halifax. It came at a crucial time. Political debate is fractious and mistrustful. Social fabric is fraying. Connections to people and place that have evolved over […]

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, […]