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The Atlantic!We’ve added a pin for every area where parents, residents, a community organisation or the council (and ideally, all of them together) are starting to change things for children through play streets and related ideas. The movement is growing! See what’s happening near you by entering the name of your local authority (council) in the box below. For more support on play streets and to connect with the play streets movement see our Support for play streets page.
Please note: these pages were last updated in summer 2024.
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Bristol is where Playing Out first started in 2009, with two neighbours deciding to try to change their street for play – for more background read the Playing Out story!
Now over 280 streets and estates have ‘played out’ (as of August 2024) and most have been granted a Temporary Play Street Order, which lets residents open their street for play up to 3hrs a week.
If you live in Bristol and are interested in getting your street playing out, take a look at our Bristol Support page for more information and how to connect with others.
The Bristol Facebook group is a great way to share ideas and experiences with other people who are ‘playing out’ in Bristol. You can also read resident activator stories, like Ellie’s here.
If you use WhatsApp and would like to connect with the network that way, there is a new Bristol play street organisers WhatsApp group: https://chat.whatsapp.
Playing Out was featured on various Bristol media, including ITV West to raise awareness of the benefits of street play to children and communities.
Link up with others and get support.
Here are some great shots of local streets playing out!
(Page updated August 2024)
playingout posted this on 22/03/23
I organised a play street for 4 years between 2014-2018 in St George, Bristol. Our street has only 30 houses and isn’t a through road; a core group of 7…
Alice Ferguson posted this on 23/06/17
The severe impact of traffic-related air pollution on children’s health is becoming ever clearer and more worrying. On the 4th of April, Greenpeace and the Guardian called for urgent government action…
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