Broad Street Oxford Public Space, English Pedestrian Area, UK Urban Landscape Architecture Image
Broad Street Masterplan in Oxford
4 Jun 2021
Broad Street Pedestrianising
Architects: LDA Design
Location: Oxford, England, UK
Summer plans to close part of Oxford?s Broad Street to traffic

Plans have been submitted to pedestrianise the western half of Oxford?s iconic Broad Street this summer, creating one of the largest public spaces in the city centre.
LDA Design was commissioned by Oxford City Council to produce a detailed proposal for a temporary civic square where people can sit and meet up with friends and family. The project is designed to green this part of Broad Street with lawns and wildflower meadows. The Council hopes the public square will host community and arts events over the summer. In submitting the plans, the Council is seeking to support post-Covid economic recovery in the city centre with a safe and vibrant car-free space, and to inform long-term options for creating better civic spaces.
LDA Design?s plans have been informed by extensive stakeholder consultation, including with the city?s inclusive transport and movement focus group. Broad Street is lined with listed buildings, and the UK?s largest academic bookseller, Blackwell?s, has traded there for 150 years.
Dafydd Warburton, a director at LDA Design and project lead, comments however that while Broad Street is very handsome, it is not easy to dwell there and enjoy it. ?Currently the space is he...