In recent years, the calls across the globe for renaming streets and removing statues can be heard more loudly and passionately than ever. Aided hugely by the Black Lives Matter movement, citizens are more commonly and more…

Street Space are excited to share results from our latest action research study outside one of London’s top ten busiest stations. The research found that by encouraging and enabling ‘activation’ such as busking and performance by local artists and musicians you can help people feel safer. As part of Activation…

Throughout our community engagement process we seek out diverse perspectives and voices. Working in partnership with PJA on the development of a permanent design for a traffic filter along Windmill Drive in Clapham Common we wanted to ensure that children’s experiences and ideas were centred as much as possible in…

Over the last few years at Street Space we’ve been involved in conversations with local people about how to improve the footbridges over the railway lines in Barking Town Centre. You can read more about these here. These bridges are well used by school children, parents with prams, people on…

What’s the problem? Masterplanning shapes the future of our neighbourhoods and communities, deciding what kind of enterprises there will be space for, how many homes, community amenities and who they will be for? Many pieces of information are gathered together for the development of these plans and more and more…

Over the last few years in community engagement there’s been a real sway (which we’ve largely been pushing for) towards authentic conversations with ‘local people’ in order to identify meaningful ways for people to shape their area. But I’ve started to wonder, what makes someone local? For a couple of…

Six months ago I moved to live part time in Saltaire, Bradford, near to where I grew up in a desire to reconnect with my roots and find a new context to work in. I am determined to maintain my London car free lifestyle knowing that for me, being able…

We’ve all been busy adapting, rethinking and shifting as we learn to live in a new way of doing things. It’s been painful at times, disappointing. I’ve definitely found myself grieving for what might have been. I recognise how lucky I am that I’m grieving for work lost or an…

I’m writing this on the edge of transition. In two months my life will look different. I’ll be living across two homes, one in the North and one in the South. Trying to maintain and grow the social business I started just over two years ago. Striving to increase our…