Draft:Create Streets

Create Streets is a British urban planning and architecture social enterprise and research institute headquartered in Lambeth, South London that advocates for gentle density as a means of solving the housing crisis.

Many of Create Streets’ ideas are now being embedded in national and local planning policy and the organisation, along with its founder Nicholas Boys Smith, has been widely recognised as greatly influential over the UK government's policy in this area.

History
Nicholas Boys Smith set up Create Streets in 2012 ‘out of frustration with the low quality of too much recent development and of irrational decision-making.’ The ‘public genesis’ of the organisation came through a 2013 report authored by Boys Smith and Alex Morton, titled ‘Create Streets’, co-published with Policy Exchange.

Awards

 * Nesta & The Observer 2016 New Radical, one of “50 radical-thinking individuals and organisations changing the UK for the better.”
 * Winner of INTBAU 2016 Community Engagement Prize.

Major Publications

 * (2013, With Policy Exchange - Nicholas Boys Smith & Alex Morton)