Street Furniture News

The quality and visual appeal of transport hubs and interchanges, including railway stations, bus stations and tram stops, is crucially important in encouraging greater use and maximising customer satisfaction. Both are key to facilitating increased use of public transport across the country, but especially in major urban areas, where switching more people away from cars can help to improve local environmental conditions by lowering levels of road congestion, noise and air pollution.

No matter the style or location of the housing, all developments centred on placemaking share common objectives. Their design views the public areas around houses and apartment blocks as not only functional but also appealing and engaging, encouraging people to spend more time in them.

The great outdoors can work wonders for our health and wellbeing whatever the setting. In healthcare environments such as hospitals, care homes and community health facilities, however, ensuring patients, staff and visitors have easy access to well-designed outdoor spaces on-site should be a priority, given the potential for substantial benefits.

Bailey Streetscene has expanded its portfolio to ensure specifiers, contractors and other decision-makers can respond to emerging outdoor design trends with the addition of a stylish range of products from leading Italian designer and manufacturer, City Design.

Well-designed, high-quality outdoor spaces within school, college, and university grounds hold equal significance to their indoor counterparts in enhancing the overall educational journey, fostering positivity, engagement, and fulfilment. But what are the key considerations when crafting outdoor spaces that optimise attractiveness, usability, safety, and sustainability?

The design of outdoor spaces surrounding retail and commercial buildings is crucially important to the site’s long term economic, social and environmental sustainability. This article explains the multiple benefits that can be realised by property owners and developers when external spaces are well-conceived, innovatively designed and constructed using class-leading quality products.

Our towns and cities are constantly evolving to cope with changes in social, technological, and environmental needs.

Biophilic design is transforming the way urban spaces are designed. It is a concept that seeks to connect people and nature within built environments. It is an approach that is not only affecting how buildings are designed but also areas within an urban environment, particularly town or city centres.

Birthday celebrations for Artform Urban, a charity trek in the Peak District and the launch of a new HVM-compliant seat were just three of the highlights of a busy 2023 for the Bailey Street Furniture Group (BSFG).

Innovation in the design and performance capabilities of Bailey Streetscene systems and products is enabling property owners and developers to integrate highly effective measures into the design of their site to protect people and buildings from the growing risk of hostile vehicle attacks.