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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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This area is a Play Street Beacon, which means there are individual play street experts you can contact in this area for advice and support in your area. Click on the link for more information on our Beacon areas.
Play Streets are really taking off in St Albans, supported by Sustainable St Albans. Please contact Sophie if you’d like to open your street for play.
You can read more about the history of play streets in St Albans, by reading Lesley and Nicolas activator story.
They have a brilliant video and more information here http://playingout.net/herts/ and listen to a podcast about play streets in St Albans called Street Play, Music and Dance on Mix926.
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