Want to be more effective on transport and planning issues? We can help you.
Whatever your particular work area or interest, we can offer you a package that will help make you get the most out of your time, budgets, and communities. For more information on any of these packages get in touch with Annabel Swanston.
Expert Reviews For businesses, schools, colleges, universities and hospitals we will assess walking routes to site and support you in making the necessary changes happen. We can also review routes between and within large facilities to ensure both indoor and outdoor walking routes remain free from congestion. For our local authority clients we will carry out walkability audits of a town centre, neighbourhood or a whole city, providing a report with recommended actions. "Living Streets have real expertise in comprehensive pedestrian audits. Their work is very well presented and they are very good at understanding and following briefs", Senior Transport Planner (London Borough of Merton)
Active Travel Package Do you want your staff to enjoy increased motivation during the day? One great way to improve the wellbeing of your own staff, or workers in your local authority area, is to use our Active Travel Package. This includes Walk Doctor Events where we offer advice on the health benefits of walking and create individual walking 'prescriptions', and also we will develop a map specific to an area or a place of work, where walking times are highlighted to transport links, lunchtime destinations and meeting venues. We can also help you create walking challenges and utilise a microsite to measure their success. "Your Walk Doctor report was very comprehensive and very good value for money. I shall definitely have your doctors in again!" Head of Transport Strategy (BSKYB)
Healthy Communities Package Increasing the amount of physical activity undertaken by your local residents not only leads to improved health and well-being, but also creates a more interactive and social community enjoying reduced carbon emissions and vehicle congestion. We can utilise our Walk Doctor events to promote walking in a fun, relaxed way and even produce some maps for leisure walking. We can also gather intelligence and analyse barriers to walking, provide recommendations for improvements and offer support to implement the changes. Did you know that by 2050 almost 60% of the UK population could be obese with the economic cost reaching £49.9billion at today's prices.
Children and Young People’s Package We will help you raise the profile of walking with your younger residents and encourage an awareness of the physical environment as a social environment. We can engage with young representatives from schools or community groups, carry out walking audits, produce maps using childrens ideas and artwork and run promotional events to encourage more walking both to and from school and in social time. "The childrens map is proving very popular. I really appreciate all your work on the project-we could not have done it without you", School Travel Plan Advisor (Thatcham)
Neighbourhood Package Involving your local residents in decisions affecting their environment is a sure fire way to imrpvoe the effectiveness of your work, but it can be hard to get right. We offer a training package for officers and councillors around engagement and the community street audit which also includes an introductory session for the local community, action planning with officers and a Community Game Session which aids the decision making and negotiation process. Following the training in Yorkshire, significant additional funding has been levered thanks to the Community Street Audit which has brought about a series of improvements to the market town of Driffield.
