A health check for streets

The Healthy Streets Scorecard 2023 includes a focus on the role of controlled parking zones in managing the car in urban areas

Streets should be welcoming places for everyone to walk along, spend time on and where they can engage with other people. By enabling physical activity and social interaction, streets can keep us healthy. This is the belief that lies at the heart of Healthy Streets, an approach developed by Lucy Saunders, an urbanist, transport planner and public health specialist. She works with organisations across the world to implement the approach, whicch was pioneered in London.

In London her ideas have...

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