Housing targets have doubled. New NPPF rules demand vision-led planning, new parking standards and better streets.
Yet housing and transport still clash at adoption stage.
Join our free webinar on delivering streets from vision to adoption. www.tickettailor.com/events/creat...
New planning rules. New obligations. Same question nobody's answering clearly: what actually is gentle density, and how do you make it?
Saturday March 7th and Saturday March 21st. A couple of places left. www.createstreetsfoundation.org.uk/creating_gen...
Our Create Streets Foundation Gentle Density master class returns, better value than ever thanks to kind support from generous donors. In our beautiful office in Lambeth Walk. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
New English planning rules insist upon Gentle Density in brownfield sites & within 800m of well connected train stations. But what does that mean? And how do you make it?
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“After years of experimentation, Poundbury is becoming what the King and its designers always aspired for it: not a curiosity, but an excellent town.”
“Not a sketch of the past but a hope for the future.”
"One of the delightful things about walking around Poundbury is picking out which architect designed what. The excellent houses around Wadebridge Square have the unmistakable characteristics of John Simpson such as his signature Doric columns and unique proportions."
“There’s truly excellent urbanism in the early phases with many outstanding homes.”
“You can see and feel the care that has gone into the public spaces and into how buildings relate to each other.”
Create Streets' own Robert Kwolek recently visited Poundbury with his camera and "returned convinced that it is the best new place built in the UK in decades, bursting with lessons for a New Town programme.”
"Poundbury is exceptional. It also has faults. Of course it does. It is made by humans, after all."
“It is a town, not a housing estate. This distinguishes Poundbury from any other development of the last 80 years...
Our Create Streets Foundation Gentle Density master class returns, better value than ever thanks to kind support from generous donors. In our beautiful office in Lambeth Walk. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
createstreetsfoundation.org.uk/creating_gen...
New English planning rules insist upon Gentle Density in brownfield sites & within 800m of well connected train stations. But what does that mean? And how do you make it?
New social housing in Islington from around 2010 (yes, really).
Ps: this is Campo Sano Village in Florida designed by the effortlessly brilliant Duaney Plater-Zyberk
We can design, we can afford & we can create beautiful new streets & places. Observe how some gable ends, properly detailed windows & a brick floor make all the difference here. Little things. Modest costs. And yet they transform the loveless into the lovely.
Here's why it's SO good and SO popular: createstreets.com/projects/wil...
If you live or work in Hackney, here’s how can you help support this scheme:
1. Turn up to the planning committee meeting on 4 February
2. Write to hackney council planning committee councillors (here they are: hackney.moderngov.co.uk/mgCommitteeD...)
🚨Tomorrow.
Hackney’s Planning Committee faces a choice that matters well beyond Shoreditch. Supporting Shoreditch Works would signal that London backs good growth in the right places, growth that strengthens streets, supports jobs and contributes to the long-term health of the city.
And read the full report on our website here www.createstreets.com/employees/ba...
How did we ban beauty by mistake? You can read our latest report Banning Beauty featured prominently in the
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What a happy looking home and garden. Observe the details & coherence which lifts the house from a wall with nine holes to something worth looking at.
As the days begin to get longer, the countdown to the Create Streets Foundation Urban Design and Architecture Summer School begins! Will you be joining us? ➡️https://createstreetsfoundation.org.uk/creating-places-academy/summer-school/ #summerschool #urbandesign #architecture
- Street Designer
- Policy Specialist (Transport and Urban Design)
View full role details here: createstreets.com/front-page-2...
- Policy Specialist (Create Streets Foundation)
View role here: createstreetsfoundation.org.uk/jobs/
We're growing the team!
Are you passionate about designing streets and places that people actually want to live in?
We're looking for talented people who care about creating beautiful, human-scale urban environments:
These are both train stations.
Trinity House, Trinity Square. 1941 and today. What is unmade may be remade.
Trinity House, Trinity Square. 1941 and today. What is unmade may be remade.
Check out our director Nicholas Boys Smith MBE on The Critic Show last week talking about the construction and restoration of the Palace of Westminster. You can watch it here www.outpoststudios.net/p/the-palace...
Sure! Check out Of Streets and Squares - page 32 onwards issuu.com/cadoganlondo...
