In April and May 2023, to mark the coronation of King Charles III and to celebrate ten years since our own formation in 2013, Create Streets invited nominations and votes for Britain’s best street as our Coronation Streets competition. This echoed one of very first projects, our Favourite Street Survey in February 2014. Which of […]

Breathe free: how to use photocatalytic mitigation of construction pollution to clean air and save lives Each year, as many as 5,000 people die each year from nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution in the UK. One major offender is construction. Construction contributes to nitrogen oxides through powered construction equipment such as generators and diggers. They are  […]

Mansards in Tower Hamlets: an East End case study on the challenges and opportunities in densifying neighbourhoods, written by Tom Bage, a bow resident. Read the blog here

A masterclass on design codes from Cllr Sue Vincent and Create Streets experts Nicholas Boys Smith, David Milner and Robert Kwolek. Register for your free place here The National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) now encourages councils to use more design codes following the guidance set out in the National Model Design Code. The Levelling Up […]

Our director Nicholas Boys Smith on PM, discussing Berkeley Homes challenging Michael Gove’s decision to reject their proposed development in Kent. You can listen to the interview for a limited time here (on at 50:40)  

Case for Place: creating prosperity through the economics of attraction In the wake of the 2016 vote to leave the European Union, the stark economic imbalances between the different nations and regions of the UK moved to political centre-stage, with the Conservatives pledging action to level up the country in their 2019 General Election manifesto. […]

Can certain places and buildings trigger physical inflammation and mental stress? Find out in our next Planning Forward webinar! In our next online event we speak to author and neuroscientist Colin Ellard (University of Waterloo), and neuroarchitectural researcher Cleo Valentine (Cambridge University) on new developments in the field of ‘neuroarchitecture’, a relatively young discipline making […]

Nominate Britain’s best street Nearly ten years ago, shortly after Create Streets was launched, we ran our first online survey: a Britain’s best street competition. As so often, the peoples’ place making judgement was spot on. In first place came one of England’s greatest streets: Grey Street in Newcastle, a sinuous sonnet of a street that descends in […]

Alongside Secretary of State, the Rt Hon Michael Gove MP, Create Streets founder, Nicholas Boys Smith, and Create Streets fellow, Toby Lloyd, both contributed to Home Advantage, a new co-publication by Bright Blue & Shelter. You can read more here

We’re delighted to announce the launch our first summer school. It will be held in the beautiful setting of Sherborne School, in the heart of the market town of Sherborne in Dorset, for three days, from 10th to  12th July 2023. More information here