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title: "Streets & Placemaking"
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# Streets & Placemaking

![Cyclists on a London street](https://www.systra.com/uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2023/05/website-header-banner-image-2380-x-1500-website-template-2.jpg)

#### Transforming public spaces for the better

**At SYSTRA we are passionate about developing transport solutions that enhance places and the quality of people’s lives. Our transport planners, engineers and urban designers work on diverse transport planning and urban design projects that have placemaking at their heart.**

#### Key contacts

![steve-pickard-profile-picture](https://www.systra.com/uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2025/09/steve-pickard-profile-picture.png)

**Steve PICKARD**

Business Director >
[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-pickard-2543713b/)

![andrew archer](https://www.systra.com/uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2025/10/andrew-archer.jpg)

**Andrew ARCHER**

Market Director >
[LinkedIn](https://ie.linkedin.com/in/andrew-archer-79881245)

#### What is placemaking?

Our focus is keeping the passenger experience at the forefront while boosting
public transport mode share. Our collaborative relationships with government
operators and regulators enable timely scheme approvals. 

We apply our local and global knowledge across rail and highway infrastructure
design and operation; transport modelling, planning and human factors, to design
and develop tailored solutions that benefit airport users and operators and
ensure value for our clients.  

[connect with our Placemaking specialists](https://www.systra.com/uk/contact/business/)

[keep up to date with systra](https://www.systra.com/uk/newsletter/)

[Learn more about our team](https://www.systra.com/uk/markets/cities-urban-mobility/streets-placemaking/#h-let-s-work-together)

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- [Local Transport](https://www.systra.com/uk/markets/cities-urban-mobility/local-transport/)

- [Active Travel](https://www.systra.com/uk/markets/cities-urban-mobility/active-travel/)

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**SYSTRA works at all scales to help transform streets, towns, cities and regions by planning, understanding, influencing and promoting transport solutions that enhance the places people live, work and visit.**

Our vision is to transform towns, cities and regions by ensuring that transport
investments enhance people’s lives. We understand the complexity of developing
positive places and encouraging developers and highways authorities to deliver
good streets and public spaces.

#### Positive placemaking demands broad expertise

To develop comprehensive solutions to the challenges of placemaking and street
design, we bring together multi-disciplinary teams comprising urban designers,
highway engineers, landscape architects, data scientists and engagement
specialists.

By applying such a broad range of expertise to our placemaking projects, we can
deliver a wide range of street design and management solutions to our clients.
The projects we deliver range from designing junctions to accommodate segregated
cycle facilities through to developing schemes that create healthy, green and
resilient streets. Our projects help to facilitate social interaction, support
local economies and reduce congestion.

![streets-and-placemaking-callout](https://www.systra.com/uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2023/06/streets-and-placemaking-callout-1024x645.jpg)

#### Engagement and inclusivity

In all our street design and placemaking work, we recognise the critical
importance of creating inclusive environments. We always engage with relevant
stakeholders and the public to ensure we consider the needs of all those who
will live, work and travel in the area.

Our streets and placemaking services include:

- Public realm strategies and masterplanning.
- Urban movement analysis and planning.
- Station integration planning and design.
- Street and public space design.
- Route strategies policy development.
- De-cluttering strategies and action plans
- Multi-modal modelling.
- Stakeholder engagement.
- Business case development.

## Projects in action

- ![Winchester Station Area Masterplan](https://www.systra.com/uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2023/06/winchester-station-masterplan-474x474.png)
- [ Winchester Station Area Masterplan ](https://www.systra.com/uk/project/winchester-station-area-masterplan/)
- ![Connecting Cheltenham Connectivity & Modal Shift Strategy](https://www.systra.com/uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2023/06/cheltenham2-1-474x474.jpg)
- [ Connecting Cheltenham Connectivity & Modal Shift Strategy ](https://www.systra.com/uk/project/connecting-cheltenham-connectivity-modal-shift-strategy/)
- ![South Hampshire Local Economic Impact Model (LEIM)](https://www.systra.com/uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2023/06/southampton-docks-solent-474x474.jpg)
- [ South Hampshire Local Economic Impact Model (LEIM) ](https://www.systra.com/uk/project/south-hampshire-local-economic-impact-model-leim/)
- ![Glasgow City Centre Transport Strategy](https://www.systra.com/uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2023/12/glasgow-city-centre-474x474.jpg)
- [ Glasgow City Centre Transport Strategy ](https://www.systra.com/uk/project/glasgow-city-centre-transport-strategy/)
- ![South Tyneside Council – South Shields Town Centre Redevelopment](https://www.systra.com/uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2024/12/southshields-transport-interchange1-474x474.jpg)
- [ South Tyneside Council – South Shields Town Centre Redevelopment ](https://www.systra.com/uk/project/south-tyneside-council-south-shields-town-centre-redevelopment/)
- ![Active Travel Social Prescribing Feasibility Study – City of Doncaster Council](https://www.systra.com/uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2024/12/doncaster_active-travel_thumb-474x474.jpg)
- [ Active Travel Social Prescribing Feasibility Study – City of Doncaster Council ](https://www.systra.com/uk/project/city-of-doncaster-council-active-travel-feasibility-study/)

#### Creating liveable, sustainable neighbourhoods

Our approach to street design is to understand the ‘place’ as well as all the
issues affecting ‘movement’. We think imaginatively about how the two can work
together to contribute positively to the experience and quality of urban life –
while supporting the drive to zero carbon transport.

Our specialists have expertise in developing 20-minute neighbourhoods and
15-minute cities, where excellent connectivity helps people to get around
quickly, easily and sustainably. We help to create liveable, low-traffic
neighbourhoods that are safer, greener and less congested.

### We’d love to help with your next project

![steve-pickard-profile-picture](https://www.systra.com/uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2025/09/steve-pickard-profile-picture.png)

**Steve PICKARD**

Business Director

![andrew archer](https://www.systra.com/uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2025/10/andrew-archer.jpg)

**Andrew ARCHER**

Market Director

[Connect with our placemaking specialists](https://www.systra.com/uk/contact/business/)

![creating-places-that-thrive-thumb](https://www.systra.com/uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2025/10/creating-places-that-thrive-thumb.png)

##### Let’s work together

Learn more about or approach to placemaking.

[View brochure](https://www.systra.com/uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2023/06/creating_places_that_thrive_brochure_web.pdf)

## Insights

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- Expert Insights

### The right research creates the right place

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Marta LIUT

### Creating Liveable Communities – A People Centric Approach

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