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Welcome to the live stream page of the National Walking Summit 2022 – brought to you by Living Streets and sponsored by ARUP.
This event will be streamed live from 10:00 to 16:30 on Tuesday 22 March, followed by the Living Streets AGM 2022 from 16:30 to 17:00.
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We are grateful for the support of our Gold Sponsor Arup in hosting this event.
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Chair’s opening remarks
Roberta Fusco, Interim Director of Policy and Communications, Living Streets
Welcome and introduction
Stephen Edwards, Interim CEO, Living Streets
Ministerial address
Trudy Harrison MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department for Transport
Questions from the online audience
with Kevin Golding-Williams, Head of Cycling and Walking Policy, Department for Transport
Walking is for everyone, right?
Susan Claris, Living Streets Vice President; Associate Director, Arup
Recommendations;
Governance: Sally Copley, External Affairs Director, Sustrans
Place: Susan Claris, Living Streets Vice President; Associate Director, Arup
People: Roberta Fusco, Interim Director of Policy and Communications, Living Streets
Keynote address:
Patrick Harvie MSP, Minister for Zero Carbon Buildings, Active Travel and Tenants’ Rights
Principles for inclusive streets
Tiffany Lam, Research Manager, Quality of Life Foundation
How can we create a feminist city?
Dr Leslie Kern, Director of Women’s and Gender Studies; Associate Professor, Department of Geography & Environment, Mount Allison University, Nova Scotia, Canada
Making streets fit for everyone
Dr Amit Patel, author and disability activist
Panel discussion and questions from the online audience featuring above speakers and Susan Claris
11.45 – 12.00 INTERVAL
Chair’s introduction
Vision and priorities for Active Travel England
Chris Boardman, Commissioner, Active Travel England
Barcelona – a radical new approach to public space
Janet Sanz Cid, Deputy Mayor for Ecology, Urbanism and Mobility, City of Barcelona
Wales – taking forward a progressive transport agenda to achieve change in towns and cities
Lee Waters MS, Deputy Minister for Climate Change, Welsh Government
Synergies between transport and health and wellbeing
Jenny Mindell, Professor of Public Health, UCL
Panel discussion and questions from the online audience
13.00 – 14.00 INTERVAL
Working with local authorities
Caroline Stickland, Chief Operating Officer, Transport for All
Working with consultants with lived experience
Amy Kavanagh, activist, disability consultant and content creator and Junior Access Partner at Transport for All
Exploring children’s neighbourhood mobility in East London
Holly Weir, University of Westminster/Queens University Belfast
School Streets
Chris Thompson, Project Manager, Living Streets Scotland
Our voice, our streets – involving girls in community development
Amy Foster and Sylvie Belbouab, Croydon Living Streets Group
Make space for girls
Susannah Walker and Imogen Clark, Make Space for Girls
Inclusive streets in the City of London
Bruce McVean, Acting Assistant Director – City Transportation, City of London Corporation
Living Streets creating streets for all in London
Katherine Jacob, Living Streets
Technical approach to inclusive streets
Robert Weetman, Technical Advisor, Living Streets
Creative approaches to inclusive walking
Maxwell Ayamba, Henna Asikainen, Clare Qualmann and Morag Rose
15.00 15.30 INTERVAL
Chair’s introduction
Stephen Edwards, Interim CEO, Living Streets
The role inclusive transport planning can play in the green recovery
Dame Sarah Storey, Commissioner for South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority
How we can build back and include needs of all
Dr Anusha Shah, Senior Director, Resilient Cities – Arcadis; Vice President ICE; Non-Executive Director, Met Office; RAE Visiting Professor King’s College, London
Inclusive transport plans in Hackney – how investment in walking and cycling can support resilience and a green recovery
Cllr Mete Coban MBE, Cabinet Member for Energy, Waste, Transport and Public Realm, Hackney Council
16.25 Presentation of the Living Streets Charles Maher Award – Walking Champion 2022
Presented by Jane Roberts, Chair of Trustees, Living Streets
Panel discussion and questions from the online audience
16.30 SUMMIT CLOSE
16.30 LIVING STREETS AGM
17.00 AGM CLOSE
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A new report launched today (22 March) calls for Government action to stop cars, cycles and e-scooters encroaching on pavement space.
The ‘Walking For Everyone’ report, produced by Arup, Living Streets and Sustrans makes a series of recommendations that would ensure pavement space is reserved and maintained for people walking and wheeling.
The report is published as the transport industry awaits a Government response to the consultation on pavement parking in England and guidance around electric vehicle charging points and for cycle and e-scooter parking, which has resulted in them taking up pavement space.
The report recommends national governments should prohibit pavement parking across the UK, and develop standards where all cycle and e-scooter parking, and electric vehicle charging points are accessible but located on the carriageway.
There is also guidance for local authorities to help make the walking and wheeling environment more accessible and attractive for everyone.
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