Computer says road (February 23rd)

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 Mews (February 21st)

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 […]

Learning from History (December 29th)

Create Streets today publishes ‘Learning from History’ by our Head of Research, Ben Southwood, with a foreword by Rory Stewart. It sets out an important case study from South Tottenham showing how one neighbourhood has seen significant suburban intensification, driven by community demand and enabled by cre­ative local government. Victorian terraced houses have been allowed […]

Create Streets finalist to Wolfson Economics Prize (November 24th)

Create Streets are extremely proud to have been selected as a finalist to the £250,000 Wolfson Economics Prize. The submission was completed in partnership with John Simpson Architects, the Create Streets Foundation, Ruggles Mabe Studio Architecture + Interiors and Osbornes (Quantity Surveyors) Ltd. The Wolfson Economics Prize First awarded in 2012, the Wolfson Economics Prize […]

Create Streets final round submission to Wolfson Economics Prize (Nov 19th)

Create Streets was delighted to be selected as a finalist to the £250,000 Wolfson Economics Prize alongside John Simpson Architects, the Create Streets Foundation, Ruggles Mabe Studio Architecture + Interiors and Osbornes (Quantity Surveyors) Ltd. Too much twentieth century science, design, management and medicine treated problems as simplistic time and motion studies, as machines where […]

Build up to level up – the fiscal impact of street votes (October 26th)

Allowing gentle densification will not just improve British streets, but also make an important positive impact to the Chancellor’s bottom line, according to our study of the fiscal impact of street votes, out today. Head of Research Ben Southwood models the impact of the reform, that would allow streets to opt into denser design codes, […]

Launch of the No Place Left Behind report (Sept 20th)

In August 2020 the Create Streets Foundation launched No Place Left Behind, the Commission into Prosperity and Community Placemaking. Chaired by Toby Lloyd, former Head of Policy at Shelter and Housing Adviser to the Prime Minister, it seeks to identify and develop policy and practice that enables regenerative development in ‘left behind places’. Read the […]

Create Streets shortlisted for Wolfson Economics Prize (Sept 5th)

On September 5th the think tank Policy Exchange announced that the Creating Complete Hospitals consortium between Create Streets, Create Streets Foundation, John Simpson Architects, Ruggles Mabe Studio, Dr Hervey Wilcox and Natalie Ritchie is one of the finalists for the Wolfson Prize. more…

Community-led vision and master-plan, Lillie Road, London

A feasibility study for the design and delivery of community led housing and a community centre on an infill site in West Kensington Estate on Lillie Road, London. Working closely with the West Kensington and Gibbs Green Community Homes (WKGGCH), Create Streets and Francis Terry Associates ran a number of co-design community events to help […]

Launch of No Place Left Behind Commission Report (Sept 20th)

The Commission, chaired by Toby Lloyd, former Housing Adviser to the Prime Minister and Head of Policy at Shelter, and initiated by the Create Streets Foundation, seeks to help ensure that levelling up benefits those that live and work in ‘left behind’ places. This event marks the launch of the final report of the Commission. […]