Healthy Streets notes
Healthy Streets notes
October 22, 2025
- HealthyStreets.com
- 10 indicators, 2 main
- Pedestrians from all walks of life
- People choose to walk, cycle and use public transport
- Easy to cross
- Shade and shelter
- Places to stop and rest
- Not too noisy
- People feel safe
- Things to see and do
- People feel relaxed
- Clean air
- 10 aspects of what it feels like on streets
- Evidence base of
- Clean air
- Easy to cross
- People feel safe
- Not too noisy
- Prioritising people first
- Easier to walk & cycle
- Whole systems change needed - spatial planning, transport, helath, policing, housing, environment
- Whole system change in London started - why not Ceredigion?
- Bike storage
- Free cycle skills training (for senior managment)
- SUDs!
- Engage communities.
- Different use for streets
- System change - Design, legislation, monitoring, management, communities, businesses
- Healthy Streets Score

- Green is healthy
- Yellow not so healthy
- Red unhealthy
- Healthy Streets Index - land use, street network, population density, pavement widths, traffic levels, air quality, noise
- Grasp the scale of the challenge
Tools
- Healthy Streets Design Check spreadsheet - 15-30
- Qualitative street assessment
- Household survey
- City Index
- Design tool
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