Create Streets is a social entreprise and multidisciplinary consultancy specialising in urban design, planning and regeneration. Our primary mission is to create beautiful, sustainable places of gentle density that prioritise well-being, social cohesion, and economic vitality.
By focusing on evidence-based design and community engagement, Create Streets ensures developments meet local needs, broader sustainability goals and will be loved for generations.
We also take an active part in the debate about the planning and design in the UK and beyond to help landowners, communities and governments support the creation of sufficient homes and places in which people can flourish.
Nicholas Boys Smith set up Create Streets in 2012 out of frustration with the low quality of too much recent development and of irrational decision-making. We research links between urban form and wellbeing, health, sustainability, prosperity, value and popularity. We advise communities, landowners, councils and developers. We lobby for necessary policy change and we help communities and long-term investors develop exemplary schemes and better manage the streets and public spaces they already have. likely to prove good long term investments based on the historical data of value appreciation and maintenance costs.