IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and this week features the Create Streets on ‘why it’s time to build on Britain’s Roadbelt’.
Create Streets (author David Milner) writes:
….Creating simpler human-scale streets could be a route to enhanced local productivity and prosperity….
….if this thinking were applied to the cities and towns scarred by post-war urban road building, we could create proud boulevards lined with beautiful, sustainably located new homes…. Forget Greenbelt, this is Britain’s Roadbelt and it’s time to build on it….
…Research shows that older street-based neighbourhoods, so called ‘walkable neighbourhoods, financially outperform post-1950 neighbourhoods, which typically have wider and faster roads….
For a free promotion of your tendering opportunities and work needs to the IHBC’s HESPR members, please send details and links to Joanna at contact@ihbc.org.uk, as soon as possible.
Tenders can also be advertised for a fee with IHBC Jobs etc, including a targeted email to 2500+ recipients as well as full coverage on our NewsBlog alerts and social platforms (membership and followers c.25,000) and websites with c. 250,000 visits a month. Contact Joanna at contact@ihbc.org.uk
