2025 – a great year for Green Streets, thanks to us!

It’s been a great year for green streets in London, thanks to CPRE London’s work

Our Front Gardens Network

• Restoration of front gardens is a simple but powerful tool to combat climate change. People often ask, ‘What can I do to help the planet?’ One answer is literally on their doorstep.
• This year we’ve grown our Front Gardens Network supporting lots of people to do more to help their neighbours to re-green and de-pave their front gardens.
• We’ve run webinars and collected lots of useful guidance together on our dedicated web page Front Gardens on the Front line. And we’re now holding regular online networking events where people can come and hear from fellow front garden enthusiasts!  And we’re working with other organisations to build a local authority officer network. You can also find presentations and webinar recordings from the network events and webinars on the web page too.

Street design for the C21st

• We published our Greener Streets: 12 design elements – promoting street design for the 21st Century, to help manage rainfall, temperature in heatwaves, and to create ‘green corridors’ for wildlife habitat.
• The guidance we created is supporting local residents, councillors and council officers to make streets greener. Our launch webinar was hugely well attended and really informative – you can watch it here.

Street parks are coming to London!

• We are so delighted work has begun on turning part of St John Street, near our Farringdon office, into a park. This is something we began campaigning for in Sept 2022 after launched our 1000 new street parks for London campaign in January of that year, advocating for the creation of ‘street parks’ across London.
• The aim of the campaign to demonstrate how ‘grey space’ can be (and is being!) reallocated in locations around London to create parks, particularly in urban areas of London used by lots of pedestrians; or in areas with high population density which are also deficient in ‘amenity’ green space or parks.
• Street parks are more than just a pedestrianised street: they are designed for rest and relaxation within a natural environment, so encompass greenery and planting, and sometimes play features. Usually traffic is removed from part or all of the street but vehicle access is maintained for essential services.

Healthy Streets

• CPRE London has led the Healthy Streets Scorecard Coalition since the Scorecard was launched in 2018. This year we issues certificates to boroughs which have done most to make their streets greener, healthier and safer.
• The launch of the 2025 Scorecard was a huge success with huge attendance at the online launch and lots of media.
• You can find out about your borough’s streets on the Scorecard website.

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