Thanks for your interest in Future Streets Oxfordshire – a people-powered project to envision thriving places, define success, and unlock the conditions for change.
This form is to register your interest in getting involved: as a workshop participant, ally, outreach partner, or simply to stay in the loop. It should take about 5 minutes.
We’ll use your answers to help design an inclusive, representative process. You can opt out at any time.
-----Here's the background that appeared in the December newsletter for those arriving at this form without context----
OLS has been in the depths of rage-filled places over the last few years - Congestion Charge Campaign, Traffic Filters, Low Traffic Neighbourhoods. Polarised, politicised agendas that have set us on a war-like footing in our very own neighbourhoods.
So for 2026, we’re bringing a big dose of positivity and participation: a community-led envisioning project that helps us time-travel to the future to co-create what we want our streets and neighbourhoods to become, right here in Oxfordshire.
We've been asking ourselves some questions recently:
🤷🏽♀️ What is a ‘liveable street’ anyway?
❓ Do people outside the active travel bubble see the benefits for daily life?
💭 What would a liveable street look, sound and feel like?
👀 How will we know changes are actually improving everyday life?
On the back of some early listening work – and thanks to a generous local donation – we’re turning those questions into a new core project for 2026. One that looks beyond traffic reduction and behaviour change and invites people to participate in a shared vision for their streets and neighbourhoods.
Working title: Future Streets Oxfordshire:
a people-powered project to envision thriving places, define success, and unlock the conditions for change.
What it will produce:
- Visualisations of what thriving streets/Neighbourhoods could look like – for health, community resilience, nature, work, play and connection. To each other and the more than human world.
- A first set of locally meaningful, holistic indicators - they help us communicate what we want from places beyond “less harm” and also shape the stories of change we’re working toward.
- A route map of sorts - collectively, with representative citizens, policy makers, communities, councils and businesses, we’ll bring the future into the present moment and ask, “what can we start doing now to make this vision a reality?”, working to co-create the enabling conditions for change to guide our work and those of our partners.
Behind the design sits a blend of systems practices. From Doughnut Economics, to Positive Tipping Points, Collective Imagination Practice and Cornerstone Communities. Above all our intention is to create safe, playful spaces for us to come together over what matters most.
This is where you come in 👇🏽
We’re already testing a few live questions:
- Streets or neighbourhoods — what scale are we working at?
- Liveable or thriving (or something else) — what feels real, not just policy-speak?
- Town or County — how do we balance a grounded pilot with a county-wide, inclusive vision that gets us out of the “Oxford bubble”?
- What does an inclusive future street look like for people who are rarely in the room now?
If you’d like to take part in workshops, help us build inclusive participation, or stay in the loop, complete the form and we’ll be back in touch sometime in the New Year: This project, alongside other advocacy and campaigning work, well take us beyond the summer and we're taking the time to create a really great, inclusive participatory process. Dive in, we'd love to hear from you...
e.g. resident, community group, councillor, business owner, campaigner, student, etc.
e.g. resident, community group, councillor, business owner, campaigner, student, etc.
We’re building inclusive participation and want to reach people and groups who are often missing from conversations about streets and neighbourhoods across Oxfordshire.
Please share the names of people, groups or organisations you think we should be talking to – especially those representing seldom-heard voices (e.g. disabled people, Black and Brown communities, low-income residents, young people, carers, renters, etc.).
We’re building inclusive participation and want to reach people and groups who are often missing from conversations about streets and neighbourhoods across Oxfordshire.
Please share the names of people, groups or organisations you think we should be talking to – especially those representing seldom-heard voices (e.g. disabled people, Black and Brown communities, low-income residents, young people, carers, renters, etc.).
(optional answer but encouraged :)
(optional answer but encouraged :)
This question is optional. We ask it so we can see who we’re reaching (and who we’re not) and to improve representation in the project.
This question is optional. We ask it so we can see who we’re reaching (and who we’re not) and to improve representation in the project.
(e.g. step-free access, BSL, large print, quiet space, online-only, childcare needs, etc.)
(e.g. step-free access, BSL, large print, quiet space, online-only, childcare needs, etc.)
If we run in-person sessions outside Oxford, where could you realistically get to?
e.g. Banbury, Bicester, Carterton, Wantage, Witney, Kidlington, other
Short answer – Optional
If we run in-person sessions outside Oxford, where could you realistically get to?
e.g. Banbury, Bicester, Carterton, Wantage, Witney, Kidlington, other
Short answer – Optional
Thanks so much for taking the time to complete this form,
We’ll review responses over the next few weeks and use them to shape who we invite into which bits of the project (workshops, outreach, partner conversations, etc.).
We’ll be back in touch in the New Year.
In the meantime, feel free to share this form with anyone you think should be in the room.
Best wishes,
Siobhann
Oxfordshire Liveable Streets