Today’s report from Create Streets and the Central District Alliance Business Improvement District looks into the tricky problem of unused, unloved, and ugly phone boxes littering our streets. The report sets out the scale of the issue and, drawing on the work of Camden and other councils, presents practical and detailed solutions to the problem. […]

Create Streets fellow Samuel Hughes, argues that we should preserve the new liberty to create mansards that ‘fit in’ Following a campaign by Create Streets, a new clause appeared in the NPPF (124(e)) explicitly permitting mansards on appropriate properties, provided that mansards emulate the style of mansards in the area at the time of the […]

Create Streets today publishes our manifesto for homes, hope and health. In it we suggest 16 key actions the next government should take for more homes, gentle density and ‘greening up’, for regenerative development, stronger towns and sustainable living patterns. They are: Create homes in existing places so as to improve neighbourhoods ‘Bring the democracy […]

Create Streets is today publishing its alternative proposal to the Marks & Spencer’s proposed total demolition of their of their historic store in Oxford Street. Robert Kwolek has written about it in The Sunday Times here. Marks and Spencer’s proposal to demolish their 1930 Oxford Street flagship store (Orchard House) has proved very controversial with […]

From 19-26 June our office in central London will be hosting A Reconstruction on Paper, an exhibition of paintings and drawings on the reconstruction of London after World War II. It is a joint exhibition between the Create Streets Foundation and the art dealership, McEwing-Sexton-Smedley Fine Art. It will also feature additional work by Minty […]

How do we create and steward sustainable cities for the future?

Today, Labour has launched its plan for a New Towns Code to set the standards for large new developments in the United Kingdom. At Create Streets we have responded to Labour’s call for beautiful new homes with our report ‘Becoming a nation of Townbuilders’ where we demonstrate how locally popular design could help to boost […]

Create Streets founder, Nicholas Boys Smith, speaks to RICS and Olga Turner Baker about how our places and buildings affect our health and wellbeing for good or ill. Listen now on RICS Podcast.

On 2 October 2023, our director David Milner and other experts gave evidence to the Department for Transport Science Advisory Council about how to use transport planning to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, cut traffic delays and congestion and reduce air pollution, traffic accidents and noise. You can now read the Science Advisory Council’s conclusions and […]

May 19th, 2024 From Chelsea to Grimsby: Create Streets helps RHS Flower Show garden on its pilgrimage from an acme of opulence to one of England’s most nature deprived neighbourhoods.  For over three years, Create Streets has been working with the community of the East Marsh in Grimsby thanks to the generosity of the Create […]