Ben Addy
Job position:
Project Officer, Liveable Neighbourhoods
Biog:
Ben has a passion for liveable neighbourhoods, and working with people to make their neighbourhood a more pleasant place to live. He is currently managing a two-year Sustrans project in Haringey, working with the local community to re-design their streets so that they become places for residents to enjoy. He has worked in both the US and UK with a variety of human rights and environmental organisations. He (and his children) like playing outside but are frightened of theme parks.
Latest articles written by this author
- Residents reclaim their roads
The two most commonly cited non-traffic related reasons for parents not wanting their kids to play outside are dog mess and fly tipping. This is a common problem - many of our residential areas are blighted by these prolific forms of anti-social behaviour.
- Public spaces for people
I remember the journey to school as plain fun – an adventure at the start of every day. My trip to school was a fifteen minute walk during which my imagination ran wild as I climbed freezing alpine passes, crossed precarious swinging rope bridges, negotiated booby traps, forged raging rivers, and avoided hungry cannibals.
- Children are seen but not heard
More often than not, we don’t take into consideration the opinions of children when we think about our streets, neighbourhoods and estates. In fact, we usually attribute many of the problems in these spaces to the kids themselves.