The New Pedestrian Pound
Project Host
Living Streets
Revenue
£6.75m
Charity Number
1108448
Project aims
Living Streets launched the Pedestrian Pound (2013), highlighting the hidden economic contribution of pedestrians to high street economic vitality. Our New Pedestrian Pound will create a ‘go-to’ resource, outlining the business case for better, safer walking and wheeling streets.
Project description
We are Living Streets, the UK charity for everyday walking. Our work in schools, workplaces and other settings across the UK helps boost walking rates and reduces congestion and pollution in local communities. We campaign nationally to help make walking and wheeling the easiest choice for short everyday journeys. Our Walk-to-School programmes generated 14.3 million new walk-to-school journeys in 2023, removing 2.5 million car kilometres from the roads.
The New Pedestrian Pound project will create a resource to support the understanding of the business and economic case of improving our streets for walking and wheeling. It will respond to current difficulties and future goals for our high streets/urban centres and will be co-produced with transport and high street stakeholders.
Building on previous reports, we will compile evidence for the economic case for investing in good pedestrian infrastructure, focusing of the value of reduced accidents, lower emissions, physical/mental health benefits, and linked-up public transport and place-making.
Having secured funding from 4 key funders towards the scoping workshops with key high street stakeholders we now need to secure an additional £26,000 to write up case studies, edit, produce and disseminate the report documents to help influence place-based decision making.
Contact name
Ellie Barnett-Wright
Phone
+442038329152
Email
eleanor.barnett-wright@livingstreets.org.uk
Website
https://www.livingstreets.org.uk/
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