The theme for our meeting on Tuesday 22 June co-hosted with the Commission for Architecture & the Built Environment, was "Retrofitting for walking ". Click here to return to the front page and a list of other Talk the Walk meetings.  

As this is an event to give as many people a chance to get to know others in the room, we limit the presentations to only a few minutes each.  Any participant that wants to address the whole room may do so - the more participants electing to do so the less time each of them has to speak! 

Presentations to be made on the evening include:

Ben Addy, Sustrans - A Simple Guide to Creating your own DIY Street

Len Bannister, The Ramblers Greater London Forum - Get Walking for the Games project to promote walking using the "festival effect" of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Nicola Cheetham, Transport for London - Transport for London's Streetscape Guidance

Mayer Hillman, Policy Studies Institute - Children's Independent Mobility - can they roam more widely?

Jacky Kennedy, Canada Walks - Creating a culture of walking

James Keogh & Nadia Pedreschi, Design Detail Trail - Mapping overlooked design details in the urban environment

Liz Kessler, - time to retrofit one way streets

Tim Long, Camden Borough Council - Street furniture - new benches, bins and bollards.

Paul McGann, Landscape Institute - physical connectivity and inequality

Colin Munsie, Essex County Council - transport interchanges.

Brian Quinn, CABE - an update from CABE

Jonathan Schifferes, new economics foundation - Marshalls plc social well-being impact map

Mahmood Siddiqi, Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea - Exhibition Road - A legacy project for the 21st century

Andrew Stuck, Rethinking Cities - the Map of Walking

Prior to the Talk the Walk, from 2.00pm, Liz Kessler will be leading a guided tour of streets that have been "retrofitted for walking" - the itinerary will include:

• 2.00pm start at Old St, Promenade, exit 7, meet by the tree with circular mirror base, near the way finding sign, then move as follows:
• Bath Street
• Radnor Street (noting route through gardens)
• Lizard Street
• Whitecross Street
• Helmet Row
• St John’s Street
• 3.45pm finish – make way back to CABE for the start of Talk the Walk

Phil Heaton formerly of Cracknell kindly provided these two presentations of before and after work on two spaces in EC1 Gambier & Wenlake

Rod King from 20's Plenty is unable to attend but would like to share this leaflet with you:LA_FAQ.pdf

You can download a list of the participants here and read the feedback and responses to it here.