Nicholas Boys Smith, Founder and Chair of Create Streets and Cathy Parker, Research Lead for the High Street Task Force join Evan Davis on PM discussing the future of UK town centres and high streets Aired 21/08/2024 Listen here from 36:40 or over on our video page here

Back on Track: how to build new trams in the UK and get Britain moving The ‘Back on Track’ report from Create Streets and Britain Remade explores why and how we can make it quicker, cheaper and easier to build trams and get Britain moving sustainably. Using Leeds as a case study our report demonstrates […]

November 13, 2024 Create Streets’ Deputy Director, David Milner, and Senior Architectural Designer, Robert Kwolek, will be teaching a course at Oxford University November 13th, 2024. The course, Design Coding for Sustainable Development sets out what you need to know about design codes and gives practical advice about how to create successful codes based on […]

Create Streets’ senior architectural designer, Robert Kwolek, explores the history of Letchworth Garden City, a pioneering model of urban planning and reflects on it’s successes and shortcomings of  Letchworth’s development. You can read the full essay here and the foreword below. Here in the UK, the new Labour Government is shortly expected to announce further […]

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 […]

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