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, […]