Create Streets / OCLT: Creating better homes by creating better places – the Create Streets Approach

This talk, hosted by Oxfordshire Community Land Trust, will focus on how we can create the homes we need by adopting a place-based approach. We'll hear about how attending to the balance and beauty of places, and taking community engagement seriously, can create healthier, more prosperous and more sustainable places for us all – and in doing so help address the housing crisis. And we'll hear more about the influential concept of ‘gentle density’, which Create Streets has pioneered in the UK, taking it to the heart of government and national planning policy.

The talk will be given by Create Streets' Senior Architectural Designer, Robert Kwolek, and urban designer Ed Leahy* (Edited 31/10). Prior to the talk, Create Streets will be delivering a course on Design Coding for Sustainable Development at Oxford's Department for Continuing Education.

The venue is wheelchair accessible.

* David Milner, Managing Director, was due to come but is no longer able to, so we're delighted Ed can join us in his place.

About Create Streets

Create Streets is a design practice, town-builder and think tank. They lead research, master-planning, design coding and community co-design to help develop and steward beautiful and popular ‘gentle density’ places which residents and neighbours can love for generations. You can see their projects here.

“The homes we need”

This is the second in a series of events hosted by Oxfordshire Community Land Trust (OCLT) on the theme “the homes we need”. Subscribe to our newsletter and/or follow us on our social media channels (Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook) to hear about future events.