Plan your play street event

After you have heard from us that your road is suitable, you can start to think about how you want your play street to run and when it should take place.

When to hold the event

You might choose to have your play street once a week or once a month, on a week day or a weekend, for a certain period in the year or the whole year. This is your decision, but you will need to make sure you have enough volunteers and you must be clear with other residents about what you are proposing to do.

Most play streets in Croydon run once a month, for a few hours on a Sunday afternoon.

Plan time to get ready and tidy up afterwards. For example, if you would like children to play on your street from 2pm till 4pm, think about applying for the road to be closed from 1.30pm till 4.30pm.

If we agree to your play street, you must not have the road closed for longer than agreed. But you can decide to not to have a play street one day or to finish early, perhaps if the weather is bad.

Where to hold the event

We will let you know exactly what section of road you would like closed.

Most play streets use the whole road, and so the neighbours apply to close it from one end to another. You can describe this to the Council by telling them the roads at both ends of yours.

You might decide to just have a play street on one part of your road, perhaps if it’s very long or has businesses that will need normal road access for customers. If so, the Council will need to know which part of the road you would like closed. You can describe this using junctions or street numbers.