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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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People living in Oxford can apply for a road closure using the council’s procedure for street parties, you can use a single form for several dates.
If you are interested making Oxford’s streets friendlier places you may also be interested in the Oxford Streets for People initiative, run by Oxford Civic Society.
In 2011, the first playing out sessions in Oxford were held – you can read about the first one in the Oxford Mail.
To contact others who are organising street play sessions in Oxford you can join the Playing Out Oxford Facebook Group or for more information contact Oxon Play.
Here’s a video on Vimeo about play streets in Oxford on ITV Meridian News.
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