Active Travel England (ATE) have been created to ensure that 50% of trips in our towns and cities are walked, wheeled or cycled by 2030. They have said: ‘Like anyone with a big target to hit, we need to work with the willing and that means sharing our faith and the majority of our funding […]

Our Director Nicholas Boys Smith was invited to present an in-depth reflection on public spaces, urban design and beauty in the city. Listen from 3:50:00. In French.

Dare to Draw course with the Create Streets Foundation REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED Course aims This one day drawing course is aimed primarily at town planners, urban designers or students in these fields who have little or no hand drawing experience. The objective is to teach attendees the foundations of hand drawing specifically for urban […]

Taking back control of our streets: The case for community-powered planning You can read in full here (July 2022)

This briefing paper sets out new research showing that the least prosperous neighbourhoods tend to be bifurcated by fast and busy roads. You can read it in full here N. Boys Smith (May 2022)

On the 24th and 27th May, the Social Fabric Summit brought together leading politicians, community and faith leaders, leading thinkers, and ordinary citizens to generate ideas, momentum and conversations to renew society in the wake of coronavirus. At a time of rising interest in the role of social institutions and networks in supporting democracy and […]

Create Streets calls for traffic modelling changes Deputy Director of Create Streets David Milner tells Peter Murray (New London Architecture) that current ‘predict and project’ policies must change to ‘vision and validate’ if we are prioritise better places over traffic movement. Watch the interview here

Create Streets and Onward are delighted to invite you to join us for Restitch: The Social Fabric Summit “People, place and little platoons in a post pandemic world” A summit over two days, at Church House in London and at the Piece Hall in Halifax. The programme will gather together leading thinkers, policy makers and community leaders to discuss […]

Today we call for a new approach to transport planning. Throw out the crude prediction algorithms that have led to endless road widening. Adopt a people-led approach. Provide healthy & green places we can move around by foot or bik. Read the full report here

Create Streets today publishes Create Mews by our Senior Fellow, Ben Southwood, Samuel Hughes and a foreword by Sir Simon Jenkins. Create Mews is a major contribution to policy debate in the UK, developing the ‘street votes’ concept to create a policy tool that enables small communities to build new mews where they decide this […]