You may have recently read about the newly opened Northumberland Line, where passenger numbers have exceeded five times the predicted number. It’s easy to attribute this to some local miscalculations or perhaps an underestimation of fans heading to St James’ Park. But this is more than just a local story. It’s a national narrative about […]
Create Streets Associate Director, Eleanor Broad, reports back from 48 hours on the Garonne Last week, I spent 48 hours in Bordeaux. I met with Mayor Pierre Hurmic and his deputy, Didier Jeanjean — the elected official leading on creating calmer, more people-friendly streets (ville apaisée) and on greening the city (végétalisation) — along with […]
Create Streets and the Campaign for Better Transport are working together on a new mission ‘Tram Network’, which will support more cities to create tram lines and work with government and industry to reduce their cost. In this blog, Tram Network member Jonathan Bray brings us lessons on why trams cost so much to build […]
Create Streets and the Campaign for Better Transport are working together on a new mission ‘Tram Network’, which will support more cities to create tram lines and work with government and industry to reduce their cost. In this blog, Tram Network member Liam Wring brings us lessons from the world’s biggest tram network – Melbourne, […]
Nicholas Boys Smith explains what councils, particularly rural councils with greenbelt, need to do and do fast to avoid the risk of ugly and ill-located ‘housing by appeal’ If you live in England, particularly southern rural England in the green belt, then the weeks before Christmas 2024 witnessed the most important announcement for your neighbourhood’s […]
In the run up to the general election, I had a chance conversation with a branch manager at one of the UK’s main housebuilders. I asked him which party he thought would deliver more homes; the response came in the form of a laugh. He said it really didn’t matter how many more homes each […]
“our new National Planning Policy Framework….affirms the vital importance of planning, the central role of planning professionals in shaping our communities anew, and the route to many more, and more beautiful, homes through a plan-led system” Rt Hon Michael Gove MP Secretary of State speech to RIBA, 19 December 2023 “The plan making system is […]
Here is a brief statement from our founding chair on the announced closure of the Office for Place. Nye Bevan said that ‘While we shall be judged for a year or two by the number of houses we build….we shall be judged in 10 years’ time by the type of houses we build.’ We set […]
Create Streets and the Campaign for Better Transport are together working on a new mission ‘Tram Network’, which will support more cities to create tram lines and work with government and industry to reduce their cost. In this blog Create Streets’ Robert Kwolek brings us some lessons from France on how to build cheaper, better […]
Report from our event at Labour Conference: New Towns. Old Challenges. How do we create new places which are popular and durable, viable and fair? ‘Be it enacted by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by […]