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A long post this one to share news of a new report authored by LDA Design and published by London Borough of Camden and Islington Council which finds that climate resilience and social #equity are driving best practice in the redesign of streets and highways, making them safer, healthier and addressing unequal access. For too long, traffic movement and parking have been prioritised above quality of place and #wellbeing. ‘Highways Greening – Best Practice and Lessons Learnt’ https://lnkd.in/e8aRBPWF finds that the tide is turning. The report draws on #Camden and #Islington’s experience of jointly delivering a #HighwaysGreeningAccelerator programme, targeting the areas of greatest #community need. It also highlights best practice in the #planning, #design and #delivery of #greeninfrastructure on highways and streets around the UK and in #Vancouver, #Antwerp and #Lyon. Support came from the Department for Housing & Communities (now the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), the National Trust, The National Lottery Heritage Fund and the Mayor of London. Full story here ➡ https://lnkd.in/egVHjXNW Report here ➡ https://lnkd.in/e8aRBPWF 💬 Sophie Thompson, a director and #publicrealm lead at LDA Design said: “This report aims to educate and inspire those involved in planning, designing, and delivering public realm. Even small street greening projects can provide significant benefits. It is also clear that when projects are interdisciplinary and prioritise the #community, they maximise benefits in #biodiversity, flood resilience, active travel, play and sociability.” You can find the full set of guidance documents from the Accelerator programme on the Urban Design Learning (UDL) website: https://lnkd.in/eyuDxVRG A big thank you to all the people and organisations that contributed to the training sessions and case studies, including Arup Robert Bray Associates Greater London Authority Enfield Council City of London Corporation Erect Architecture SMALLWOOD ARCHITECTS LTD Spring Gardens Nursery SHAPE Architecture Streets Ahead Cityscapes Cardiff Council Urban Movement City of Vancouver Stad Antwerpen Métropole de Lyon 👏 Great work by LDA Design's Sophie Thompson Ellie Buckell Stella Bland and Lee White. Special thanks to Islington's Maddy Gunn and Camden's Joe Lewis. #greenercity #bettercity #highwaysgreening #greening #greytogreen #SuDS #landscapearchitecture #climateresilience #community

  • Cover and inside spread of new report 'Highway Greening: Best Practice and Lessons Learnt' published by LB Camden and Islington Council and authored by LDA Design
  • View along Lange Ridderstraat in Antwerp, Belgium before it became a garden street
  • Lange Ridderstraat in Antwerp, Belgium as a garden street credit City of Antwerp / Jeroen Broeckx
  • Water handpump on Lange Ridderstraat, City of Antwerp, Belgium credit Matthias DeBoeck
  • Alfred Place near Tottenham Court Road in Camden's West End as city back street, a heavily parked taxi rat run.
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Dr Phil Askew

Director Landscape & Placemaking at Peabody

2mo

Looks great and so important.

James Howard MRICS

Development Director at Studio HIVE

2mo

Thanks Clare for this post. Just shows what’s possible with an engaged Highways department and Council. Bristol Urban Greening should be encouraged by this success and look forward to working with you and the rest of the group to see what we can achieve…

Tania Love RIBA FRSA FIPM

Associate Partner at FaulknerBrowns Architects, High Streets Task Force Expert

2mo

Impressive transformations. Love that this is happening 🙌

Rachel Ivers

Performance Coach l Partner, GiANT London

2mo

Love seeing all these images of transformation for the communities that live there. So encouraging Cannon Ivers Nice quote Sophie Thompson I agree that small and often is just as beneficial as big and once in a while

Sarah Crowe MRTPI, Cmgr, MCMI

Research & Innovation in Placemaking, Urban Planning, Blue Green Infrastructure & Community Engagement for Climate & Societal Resilience | Chartered Town Planner | Regeneration | Educator | Consulting | Urbanist

2mo

I'm looking forward to reading this, thanks.

Christopher Martin

Urbanist; Co-founder of Urban Movement; Board of Trustees at Living Streets; Fellow of Royal Society of Arts; Planning + Climate Action Group UNHABITAT

2mo

Great to see and fantastic resource. Tagging Urban Movement here in London

Mark Kenyon

Public lighting on/off-grid & Connected environment by #SEVⓔ. We design, we manufacture, we supply, we provide your solution from our UK base #Ark Lighting #RagniGroup #Hess #NoveaSolar #LECLyon #SEVⓔ #WeAreLight

2mo

Great article on an important subject. Lets bring about change 👏

Selina Mason

Strategic Design Lead @ Lendlease | Urban Regeneration Specialist

2mo

Fantastic Sophie Thompson Stella Bland - can’t wait to read it and share with the LAs I work with!

Selina Mason

Strategic Design Lead @ Lendlease | Urban Regeneration Specialist

2mo

Simon Delahunty-Forrest this will interest you #ourfuturecityplan

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