Introduction to The Project

The Streets for Living Project has been approved by the European programme of transnational co-operation INTERREG IIIB and will be completed by March 2008.

There are 4 partners from 3 countries:

  • Swindon Borough Council, UK, Lead partner
  • La Communauté d’Agglomération de Plaine Commune, FR
  • Wiltshire Constabulary, UK
  • Gemeente Hilversum, NL

Streets for Living is unique in the way that it brings together local authorities, the police and local residents to develop a community regeneration response to crime and safety issues.  It also explores how different dimensions of social exclusion, particularly factors generated by age and/or ethnicity, can be reduced or eliminated through effective planning that links streetscape and exclusion issues. 
The Objectives of the whole project are:

  1. To develop community participation in planning the street as a driver for community regeneration
  2. To demonstrate the potential for traffic management actions to lead to an improved quality of neighbourhood living through:
    1. A reduction in social exclusion
    2. Reduced levels of crime and disorder
    3. An improved street environment
    4. Improved economic circumstances
  3. To make the street a community space, valued and used by the community
  4. To test the practical application of different traffic management techniques in fulfilling a community regeneration role
  5. To develop ways of linking spatial planning, community regeneration   and street planning in a transnational context

 

 
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