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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 […]
March 19th, 2024 The ‘Move Free’ report from Create Streets explores why and how making it easy to get about towns and cities in as many ways as possible boosts prosperity, high streets and freedom, happiness, health and house-building. You can read the executive summary below and the full report here. Twin inventions. In a […]
Working alongside neighbourhood planning experts Oneill Homer, we were commissioned by Chesham Town Council to help produce town wide Neighbourhood Development Orders (NDOs) and an accompanying Neighbourhood Design Code to enable the creation of sustainable and beautiful new homes across Chesham. The purpose of the development orders is to de-risk brownfield and infill development in […]
March 10th, 2024 The UK can build hundreds of thousands of new homes, without paving the countryside. The key is a different approach to transport planning, according to a major new study, Stepping Off the Road to Nowhere, from Create Streets and Sustrans. The problem: the UK government will have a target to build 1.5 […]
March 9th, 2024 High Speed 2 are using Visual Preference Surveys (VPSs) for the first time giving the public a final say on the appearance of a viaduct design on Balsall Common near Solihull. This is commendable. However, all is not as good as it seems. The actual choice being offered (parapet design) is fairly […]
Marks and Spencer’s proposal to demolish their 1930 Oxford Street flagship store (Orchard House) has proved very controversial with a government call in, an appeal to the High Court and high-profile interventions from (among others) Kevin McCloud, Griff Rhys Jones, Sir Simon Jenkins and Kristin Scott Thomas as well as a host of experts from […]
July 15th, 2024 Much of the knowledge needed to create traditional places where many people want to live is no longer taught in most architecture and urban design courses. Set in the heart of the beautiful market town of Sherborne in Dorset, this course will introduce core urban design and architecture principles and practice. It […]