Be Welcoming and Safe

Use lighting as a way to communicate local identity and culture

Art installations, pop-ups and lighting should be used to activate the masterplan

© Luis De Vera 2022

Where can the elderly go?

Ensure that older residents are able to fully participate in public life and feel safe and welcome in the streets

© Luis De Vera 2022

Places should be welcoming so people feel at home ...nobody likes to feel over controlled

Streets considered from a child’s perspective

Make streets pleasant environments with trees and good architecture – safe and welcoming to everyone.

There should be a mix of play for younger children and teenagers. What’s in it for young people? Multi use games area?

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3 Nature

Chapter 3. Nature

We have heard positive things about individual spaces and pockets of nature across Euston and how valuable these are to local people. However, the ambition for a new place is one where nature has a bigger role to play, where it is at the heart of new development and central to what defines a new neighbourhood.

The Euston OSD needs to have “Green around every corner”. This is not about one space but a network of interconnected, and diverse spaces. Journeys need to be through trees, routes should be green, and it doesn’t end with the open spaces – how buildings respond to this challenge can be just as important. The desire for a connection with nature and greenery responds to local ambitions to see a more environmentally focused, healthier part of the city, which can contribute to a sense of wellbeing.

The station is surrounded by neighbourhoods with a strong sense of place, identity, and community and the Euston OSD needs to be a good neighbour to this: it needs to be “An edge with a neighbourhood feel”. Extending this neighbourhood feeling can be done with soft edges, with green walls and borders, new open spaces, and independent shops that contribute to the needs of its neighbours.

“The desire for a connection with nature and greenery responds to local ambitions to see a more environmentally focused, healthier part of the city”