#PlayStreet
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Absent the inter/national platforms of #PatrickStewart #BonnieGreer #DollyParton... we can start in our local communities/areas. For example, my north #London road has a monthly #PlayStreet where traffic is prohibited for <3hrs while children play, elders😉talk, news exchanged...🚸
October 30, 2026 at 2:11 PM
A street near my new house has just started doing a regular #playstreet.

It makes me very happy to see chalked roads every few weeks.
September 28, 2026 at 12:42 PM
Pues se me ha ocurrido una idea revolucionaria para el problema: pequeños ordenadores con juegos que se conectan a la televisión y así los niños se pasan el día alienados sin salir a la calle.

Lo llamaré PlayStreet.
August 23, 2026 at 5:15 PM
10 years ago today we received the closure notice for our very first #playstreet on my street in North Shields; we haven’t played out for a couple of years but I’m still proud of all we did and achieved over the past 10 years, on our street and beyond.

@playingout.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Worth reading this thread for all sorts of perspectives on #playingout, and then checking out playingout.net/play-streets... so you can start to organise a #playstreet on your street.

@playingout.bsky.social
April 19, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Tonight, I bumped into my neighbours from one side in the pub and had a lovely time, and then on the way home - realising I’d brought out the wrong keys 🤦🏻‍♀️ - knocked on those on the other side for my spare set.

These relationships were born on our #playstreet, started 9 years ago yesterday.
December 14, 2024 at 8:48 PM
It’s 9 years today since we got the traffic order for the first #playstreet on my street, and my activist and academic ‘play on streets’ journey began. I’ve learnt so much, met so many fabulous people (on my street and beyond), and had a lot of fun.

@playingout.bsky.social
November 26, 2024 at 8:01 AM
November 21, 2024 at 1:22 PM
Good to see a #playstreet (with a #bluesky) appear over here!
Just a photo of a play street in Inverness to say hello!
November 12, 2024 at 10:51 PM
Our street is heaving on Halloween, as usual - think I’ve already had well over 150 kids (or 👻🧙💀🧟🧌) at my door.

For the previous 8 years, we’ve had a Halloween #playstreet (see pics) and I’m kind of sad we don’t again, but it’s lovely seeing the street so full of kids and families having fun.
October 31, 2024 at 6:28 PM
RIP EIliott Erwin (www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...) - I don't know a huge amount about his photography - I do know he took two amazing images of children playing on a Wallsend #playstreet, Davis St, in 1969, since demolished. It's awesome that these kids were celebrated in this way.
December 1, 2023 at 10:23 AM
A busy Playing Out Professionals Forum/Community of Learning, hearing about Blackpool's first #playstreet (see dailymotion.com/video/x8jjah9) amongst a big crowd of play, youth, community, public health, highways and active travel officers supporting #playstreets within their councils.
Blackpool's first Play Street - video Dailymotion
Blackpool's first Play Street in Clevedon Road where the road is closed to traffic to allow children to play in the street safely
dailymotion.com
November 30, 2023 at 12:03 PM
Pre-trick-or-treat #playstreet, with pumpkins 🎃, lots of fancy dress 🧙👻💀 and a mysterious black cat 🐈‍⬛
October 31, 2023 at 5:19 PM
Our “this is a #playstreet” signs are are looking a bit bedraggled, battered by years of weather and recent storms, but some green tape and new notices with dates from #Halloween through to spring, including our 8th anniversary #playstreet in Dec, have brought them back to life a bit!
October 30, 2023 at 2:42 PM
¡Buenos días!

Aquí tenéis la programación de la III Kidical Mass y de la playstreet previa. Abrimos la calle Luis de Ulloa y no habrá tráfico de coches. ¡La calle entera abierta para la infancia!

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May 18, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Tomorrow’s the big day! 🎉 We can’t wait to welcome our new Primary 1 pupils!

Welcome to PlayStreet and our new Library!

🕘 P1a – 9:10am
🕘 P1b – 9:20am
🕘 P2/1 – 9:30am

See you bright and early! 🌟
August 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
The next London Kidical Mass is 20th September & we’re tying in with Lambeth’s car-free day ending in a fun closed playstreet. 🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲

Sign up here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/sou...
August 29, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Someone sent me this from local antiLTN troll Clair Battaglino. This playstreet is for everyone & well-attended by families from the hostel next door. We make free snacks & arrange free fruit & vegetables from streetbox for families to take home. How do you get so nasty & full of hatred?
July 1, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Massive thanks to @carolinewoodley.bsky.social @willnorman.co.uk @joewalkeruk.bsky.social @jasminemartins.bsky.social for coming to support our Enfield Road #Playstreet today (and for all your ongoing support and efforts to improve local roads)
June 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Another fantastic Enfield Road playstreet today and lovely to meet @sarahwoodberrydown.bsky.social who came to show her support and see some of the problems we have with streets in this area. #StreetsforKids
March 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM
These signs often about protecting cars. And from the playstreet we run the few people who complain usually say kids are going to damage their car. In reality the risk of damage by balls is low but if it actually comes to a choice between kids’ lives and your car then just move the goddam car!
March 18, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Great fun #streetsforkids Enfield Road #playstreet today with free healthy food from Streetbox
February 27, 2025 at 6:29 PM
🚸🚸

Our inner-London #N7 monthly #PlayStreet when rode closed to 🚙 for <3 hrs is now 2yo. In that time 🛼 🛹 🚲 skills acquired, friendships (made even between some adults..) while the naysayers who objected to the scheme have gone silent 😊

@pmdfoster.bsky.social @pickardje.bsky.social 👇 #ICYMI
April 19, 2025 at 10:28 AM
We love a #PlayStreet

They’re reasonably easy to organise too

#ReclaimTheStreets
The awesome #enfieldroadplaystreet reappeared for 2025 today thanks to @superillasally.bsky.social and others #playingout #streetsforkids
January 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM