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“I was delighted to see how the Local People project has been bringing the Kingston community together” - Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London
For place-making and street design, Sustrans, the Mayor of London and many London Boroughs share a similar vision of how we want our streets to work. We want streets that are healthier, greener and more attractive places in which to live, play and do business.
But what’s often most challenging is how we get there. We believe involving local communities through a collaborative design (co-design) approach is essential to deliver successful schemes.
Involving local communities when designing liveable neighbourhoods is a no brainer. Local people are experts of their streets. Years of travelling through their neighbourhood by foot, by bike or by car results in a deep awareness of the issues and innovative solutions for them.
Gaining input from the community early on provides access to in-depth local knowledge and can save on monitoring, traffic count and modelling costs upfront. By engaging closely with local people from the beginning of a street design scheme and ensuring proposals tackle the problems they identify in the first place, the risk of local resistance during consultation – and a change of heart from our politicians - is substantially reduced.
In fact, the approach is now endorsed by Transport for London (TfL): “An important element of Liveable Neighbourhoods schemes will be local engagement and involving communities in the development and delivery of proposals that affect their areas from an early stage” - TfL’s Liveable Neighbourhoods Guidance
Sustrans has championed the collaborative, design-led approach since 2004 with our first ‘Home Zone’ project in The Dings, Bristol. Our approach has helped us to develop bespoke walking and cycling solutions that reflect local need and – crucially – have local support.
When communities feel they own the solutions, they are also more likely to use the new infrastructure. So there can be an increase in walking and cycling levels as a result of this collaboration.
“Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.” - Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Sustrans have recently been working across inner and outer London, making big changes with relatively small budgets.
In Barking and Dagenham, the Marks Gate DIY Streets co-design project has delivered healthy streets infrastructure to reduce road danger alongside behaviour change indicatives, including a women’s only cycle club. It has contributed to a healthier community. Following the project, 79% of residents surveyed said that they walked or cycled more due to the changes to the local area.
Funded by the People’s Health Trust, the Local People project in Malden Manor, Kingston-upon-Thames, has been bringing the community together through co-design and by trialling small-scale changes to the local streets. A two-month trial of public seating and play equipment resulted in support for permanent change from 75% of survey respondents. The project shows how we can use street design to integrate communities and change behaviour.
“ I was delighted to see how the Local People project has been bringing the Kingston community together. ”
We’ve also been working with boroughs and TfL to use collaborative design to deliver better results in the Quietways programme when needed. When a modal filter was proposed on Estreham Rd in Streatham to reduce through traffic, for example, 60% of residents were opposed to it.
With the backing of the Cabinet Member and ward councillors, we held two on-street events and six co-design workshops which led to revised designs being taken to formal consultation and a six-month trial being approved.
Two-years after our first survey, 60% of local residents now support the scheme and have specifically said that the engagement and trial was what led them to change their minds. N02 levels have halved and the street is a much quieter and more pleasant place to be.
“The judges feel that no organisation has done more to embody the spirit of healthy streets than Sustrans. We did not have a ‘greatest contribution to healthy streets’ awards category, but if we did then Sustrans would have won it without question.”- Brian Deegan at the Healthy Streets Awards 2017.
Our ‘Collaborative Design’, or co-design process puts the people who use the streets at the heart of designing solutions to local issues. When designing better streets for walking and cycling, these people - from dads taking their children to school to newsagents selling the Sunday papers, from refuse collectors negotiating the streets to commuters cycling to work – are experts in the problems that need to be overcome.
Our co-design approach is far more in-depth than standard engagement processes. Our early and ongoing engagement means we reach out to all the people that use the street, rather than just the vocal few.
We work hard to create multiple opportunities for the community to share their expertise with design professionals. For example, at an on-street pop-up event, a parent’s coffee morning at a local school, a site visit with people who travel in wheelchairs or by joining refuse collectors for their morning shift. We:
By working in this way, we overcome initial resistance to change and uncertainty, and enable residents to get involved and have fun in the process.
Our ability to facilitate collaboration between the local community, our in-house urban designers, borough designers and traffic engineers is special because it results in agreed solutions.
By involving the local community from the beginning, we are more likely to reach a consensual position – rather than a divisive yes or no often brought about by traditional traffic consultation.
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Playing our cards right with Living Streets Scotland
Seeing a street design project in action in Kirkintilloch
Beancross Primary pupils presenting on their I Bike experience
We recently hosted our annual School Active Travel Seminars, bringing together School Travel Professionals from local authorities throughout Scotland.
These events are an opportunity to network, share ideas, and hear national updates on encouraging walking, cycling and scootering to school. This year’s seminars were held in Falkirk and East Dunbartonshire, focussing on the themes of behaviour change and sustainability. We heard about a variety of exciting initiatives that have been taking place and the impact these are having on both schools and their wider communities.
We heard from officers in local authorities where an initiative aimed at making streets more welcoming for pedestrians and cyclists has been introduced – School Streets. By restricting vehicle access to the streets directly outside schools at the start and end of the school day, the area is safer and promotes active travel to and from school. Discussion groups explored the challenges and benefits of implementing School Streets, and heard how initial resistance has been overcome.
There were also updates from partner organisations we are working with to transform the school run. Cycling Scotland presented an overview of their Cycle Friendly Schools Award, along with key updates on the Bikeability Scotland training they offer in schools. Living Streets Scotland shared highlights from their recent Walk to School Scotland evaluation report, delivered in the style of Play Your Cards Right!
There were updates on another active travel initiative, Beat the Street, which has been running in Dumfries & Galloway. We heard how this challenge has been getting the community moving to earn points (and prizes!) by tapping their Beat the Street cards against sensors throughout the town. The initiative is a fun way to engage the community with walking and cycling on Dumfries’ active travel network.
We also heard that active travel doesn’t have to be limited to journeys to and from school, but can be integrated into the Curriculum for Excellence. Graham Boyd, Heritage Education Development Officer at East Ayrshire Council, told us how the Kilmarnock Town Trail is being used to teach pupils about local history on guided walks – better than sitting in a classroom all day!
We took part in some outdoor learning ourselves with a field trip to see a local street design project in action. The Cowgate in Kirkintilloch has recently been redesigned to regenerate the town centre and give greater priority to people on foot and bikes. The project aimed to reduce the dominance of traffic, creating a space which encourages active travel and is more pleasant to spend time in.
We heard from teachers and pupils from Beancross Primary School, who told us about their experience of taking part in our I Bike programme. The pupils told us about their favourite parts – cycling to The Helix and having ‘bike breakfasts’ – but also about the positive changes they have seen to their school run, with more children now coming into school on their bikes and scooters.
We shared some of our own recent developments, such as our new Supporting Safer and Active Travel in Scottish Primary Schools leaflet which makes it easy to navigate the variety of initiatives available for schools. We also presented on the findings and recommendations of the Tackling the School Run report conducted by Systra in partnership with Wellside Research and Sustrans.
This year’s seminars were attended by local authority representatives from all across Scotland - from Dumfries & Galloway to Shetland! If you’d like to join the conversation contact schools-scotland@sustrans.org.uk. Active travel isn’t just a transport issue - we’d love to hear from people working in education and health & wellbeing.
