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 […]

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 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 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 […]

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, […]

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 […]