MY MANIFESTO | Rowenna Davis Discover Rowenna Davis’s New Plan for Croydon. Explore key policies - from tackling crime to stopping fly-tipping - and learn how our campaign will deliver real change across the borough.

And here is the manifesto
www.rowennadavis.co.uk/mymanifesto?...

Rebooting the Soul of South London: Why Croydon’s New Plan is a Breath of Fresh Air - Create Streets For too long, Croydon has been the poster child for what happens when “traffic modernism” is allowed to rip the heart out […]

...We're energised by the recently launched manifesto, The New Plan for Croydon. It moves away from post-war cautionary tales toward a model of human-centred regeneration. Here's our Director, David Milner's blog on it www.createstreets.com/rebooting-th...

We’ve seen precious slices of the traditional street grid replaced by inward-facing shopping centres, monolithic, dull, office blocks, and land-hungry highways that sever the community.

But is this starting to change .... ?

For too long, Croydon has been the poster child for what happens when “traffic modernism” is allowed to rip the heart out of a historic town.

Nicholas Boys Smith - The ecology of everyday streets | CNAPPC Conference, Rome YouTube video by Create Streets

Our founder Nicholas Boys Smith was in Rome last week, speaking on the ecology of everyday streets at the CNAPPC Conference on new paradigms of urban life: proximity, well-being in cities and territories. You can check out his talk over on our YouTube channel youtube.com/watch?v=_YAC...

Join us this year for the Create Streets Foundation Urban Design and Architecture Summer School, and find inspiration with like-minded individuals in the beautiful setting of Sherborne, Dorset. Our early bird discount deadline ends April 1st! www.createstreetsfoundation.org.uk/creating-pla...

Modern tram passing through a historic French city street with classic architecture in the background. Quote from Thomas Ableman reads “France builds 300,000 homes every year. So far this century, a new tramway has opened in France every six months. Is this a coincidence, or are they linked?"

Our latest report in partnership with @createstreets.bsky.social, funded by RAC Foundation & written by @freewheeling.info, examines if a French-style tram-enabled housing model could work here. Read the report👉bettertransport.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/...

Should YIMBYs Build Beautiful?

Get your tix now for @robertkwolek.bsky.social of

@createstreets.bsky.social

Wednesday, 18:30; The Wheatsheaf, Fitzrovia

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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...

Creating Gentle Density Creating Gentle Density A two-day urban design master-class Saturday March 7th and Saturday March 21st, 2026 A two-day urban design master-class taught over two Saturdays by Create Streets’s experi...

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?

Read on here www.createstreets.com/wp-content/u...

“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.

Will Shoreditch Works make London better? - Create Streets Create Streets are today publishing our independent review of the Shoreditch Works development in Hackney, London. For full transparency, this report has […]

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.

How Britain banned beautiful architecture England adores Georgian-style homes, but 'ugly' new builds are everywhere. What will be the fate of Labour's new towns?

www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

Banning Beauty - Create Streets Download here

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
@telegraph.co.uk

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.