


Create Streets Foundation
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@CreateStreetsFN
Charity supporting urban design research, neighbourhood planning and community-led design across the UK.






This is our local tube station as is and as reimagined with homes on top. Which do you prefer? Beautiful buildings do not just create homes. They improve places. It is beyond insane that there is literally a bungalow a few hundred yards from both the Palace of Westminster and Waterloo Train Station. In a world where Create Streets were setting planning policy beautiful, popular intensification of this types of site would be embedded by right following provably popular pattern books so there was no planning risk or equity capital requirement at all, only the need to raise debt for the construction. The good news is that....






Whoever runs Birmingham on Monday go into every single constituency, find 1 project people see every day and fix it. You could start with scars on our high street caused by crappy developers like Kingsway Cinema in Kings Heath. Be aggressive. Fix something people see every day.













Come and join our Urban Design & Architecture Summer School this July! • Urban Design (10–14 July 2026) • Architecture + Craft (14–19 July 2026) From only £400 - with accommodation and meals included. Learn more and apply here createstreetsfoundation.org.uk/creating-place…

Render vs reality. The scaffold has just come down on Albion House on Little Underbank in Stockport. One of 6 projects we currently have on site in the old town. Great to be part of the towns regeneration @stopinstockport @createstreets @My_Stockport

Seen in Sherborne on our @CreateStreetsFN summer school…










As part of a £36m project, dozens of building were restored as part of the High Street 2012 scheme. Here's one of the best examples, on Whitechapel High Street, by the contractor @payestonework. Funding came from the Mayor, DCLG, LTGDC, Lottery Fund, English Heritage and TfL.