Uplands Living Streets is a volunteer-run local group, campaigning and collaborating for a greener, cleaner, happier & more walkable Uplands & Brynmill (Swansea). If you’ve got an idea to make Uplands better, or would like to get involved in any of our featured projects, get in touch!
New community noticeboard installed
We are delighted to announce the arrival of our long awaited community noticeboard, which replaces the broken noticeboard outside Uplands News. We are delighted to be partnering with Uplands News to renew this important community asset - a place for sharing...
Community Walk on Sat 30th September
Everyone is welcome to join our upcoming community walk in Singleton Park, with local naturalist Matt Carroll. Hear about some of the wildlife to be found in the park as the seasons change, and learn the names of some of the birds and trees that we come across....
Onwards & Uplands! Join us on Wednesday 1st of Feb!
Parklets - What, Why, How? Everyone is welcome to join our February meeting, where we will be having a talk and discussion about parklets, which are small green seating areas situated on or alongside a pavement where people can sit and relax. How can we apply this...
How to create great green urban spaces
Our first face-to-face meeting on Tuesday 22 September in BrewStone, Uplands was a great success! We welcomed both Uplands Living Streets members and people from all over Swansea, all united in their interest in making our communities more green and people-friendly....
New Look & Latest Meeting Notes – 2/07/22
Please click here to see the notes from our latest Uplands Living Streets meeting held on 2nd July. Here are some highlights: We’ve decided on a NEW LOOK for our future meetings and we need YOU to help us with it. We’d like to start hosting discussions at the meetings...
New bench for the Uplands Shopping area
We’re really pleased to announce that our local Councillors have agreed to fund a second bench for the Uplands shopping area. This means that in the next few months there will be two new places for people to sit, rest and chat to each other in the heart of Uplands,...
Updated Highway Code now in effect on Britain’s roads.
You will surely have seen that, as of Saturday (29 January), the updated Highway Code is now in effect on Britain's roads. Two things you can do now Updating the Code is not a silver bullet. We need to ensure all road users understand the changes and abide by them....
Uplands Living Streets featured in South Wales Evening Post
Uplands Living Streets was featured in the January 18 2022 edition of South Wales Evening Post.
Uplands Living Streets Meeting Notes – 08/01/2021
Click here to view the notes from the meeting on Saturday 8th January 2021: Living Streets Meeting Notes Jan 2021 The next meeting will take place via Zoom on Saturday 5th March at 10:30am, all are welcome, please email us for the Zoom meeting link!
Have Your Say!
If you haven’t had a chance yet to tell us your views about how to make Uplands & Brynmill cleaner, greener and more pedestrian friendly, NOW is the time! We have 6 suggestions in our Uplands Living Streets manifesto and we want to know which are the top three for...
Welcoming the festive season
We welcomed the festive season and upcoming winter solstice on the green on The Grove last night with a lovely carol concert, where at least a hundred people from our community sang along together with Aderyn Du Brynmill Community Choir. The weather was cold, but...
LATEST MEETING NOTES
Dear Friends, We had a great meeting last Saturday, thanks all for coming, and here are the downloadable notes so that you can see what we discussed. Our next meeting of Uplands Living Streets will be on Saturday 8th January 2022 at 10.30am on zoom, and here is the...
Welsh Government Consultation: Proposal to reduce speed limit to 20mph on residential streets
Welsh Government proposes to reduce the speed limit to 20mph on all our residential streets to reduce road collisions, increase opportunities for walking and cycling, make our streets safer and improve health and wellbeing for all. Please respond to this consultation by the 1st October.
We’ve Done It! Crowdfunding Goal Reached!
AMAZING NEWS! Uplands Living Streets can now announce that we have reached our crowdfunding target for the Onwards & Uplands campaign! Swansea Council's match funding of just over £3,000 came in, taking us over our crowdfunding target!! That's on top of £1000...
Active Travel Meeting for Schools & Families
We are keen to see how we can encourage people of all ages to walk more because we know that walking not only helps to improve peoples’ mental and physical health and sense of wellbeing, it also makes for friendlier and less polluted neighbourhoods. We would love to...
Walk with us!
Did you know that May is National Walking Month? So what better time for me to relaunch my Wellbeing Walks from Swansea Wellbeing Centre. https://www.wellbeingswansea.co.uk/ The idea is to explore the many green spaces in Uplands, Brynmill and Mount Pleasant, admiring...
Croquet to be played at Brynmill Park until the end of September!
It must be at least 5 years since there was any official sport seen on the bowls green, but how time moves on! The surface at Brynmill Park may not match the legendary greens seen at Wimbledon and Langland golf course, but the fun and enjoyment of the players was...
Can you help with our digital marketing?
We are looking for a volunteer Digital Marketing Assistant to join our project team, to contribute a few hours a week to support local promotion, social media communications and online mapping for our project to make Uplands greener, cleaner, more friendly and more...
Community Crowdfunding
Uplands Living Streets is pleased to announce the launch of our community crowdfunding campaign with Crowdfund Swansea, for a project bringing people together for a greener, happier, more friendly and more walkable Uplands! Over the last few months, we've been...
How to live longer….
In Uplands last week I met three people I hadn’t seen in ages. It was great to chat (albeit at a distance), and afterwards I got that warm feeling of being anchored in my community. It reminded me of a well-known research study, undertaken in the U.S. some years ago where academics were trying to find out why residents of a small town in America were unusually long-lived.
Community Growing Meeting
With the current lockdown stretching everyone's patience, Uplands living Streets is keen to bring together local people who are interested in growing more in their gardens in 2021, or getting involved with community garden and green spaces projects across Uplands...
Notes from our January Meeting
Thanks to Jane and Brigid for compiling these very comprehensive notes of our January Meeting which took place on Saturday 9th Jan 2021 via Zoom. We were pleased to have Matt Bowyer from the council's Highways department joining us to answer questions, as well as...
Community Newsletter Issue 1
Don't miss our community newsletter, keeping everyone up to date on all our activities and ideas! Please share this with your networks and contact us if you would like to get involved! You can also email us about anything you think we could include in future issues,...
Update on the Slow Ways
Although not part of Living Streets, Slow Ways will be of interest to walkers and those interested in the benefits it can bring to us all.
Latest news update from Living Streets
Hope you are all keeping well as different parts of the country move into tier 2 and 3 lockdowns. We will be issuing guidance next week outlining how these new restrictions will affect Group activities. In the meantime, please find below another weekly update –...
Talking to Local People at Uplands Market
We hired at stall at Uplands Market to talk to local people about their ideas for improving walkability, cycling and green spaces in Uplands & Brynmill. Over 50 people joined our mailing list and expressed support for our project, and it was great to hear ideas...
Let’s Walk: Walking for Health, and for Fun
Starting Tuesday 15 September Tuesday, 9.15-10.30. Let’s Walk: Walking for Health, and for Fun is a weekly group walk starting from the Swansea Wellbeing Centre (on the corner of Walter Road and Burman Street, SA1 5PQ) and exploring the local green spaces. Each week...
Uplands Living Streets Meeting – 05/09/2020
Notes from the meeting held on Saturday 5th September 2020 Present: Dawn Lyle, Jane Tonks, John Sayce, Hedley Austin, Laura Reynolds, Mark Robinson, Mary Sherwood, Nick Davies, Brigid Haines. Apologies: Nick Guy, Deryl Dix, Rob Humphreys, Jenny Wyatt Everyone...
Act now for safer crossings – Help make #walkingnumber1
Please take some time to read about this campaign by Living Streets to amend the Highway Code so that pedestrians are given priority. These amendments could help to make our roads and zebra crossings safer for us all! Everyone should be able to cross the road safely....
Shoppers and How They Travel
A study conducted by Sustrans in Bristol investigated how customers travel to two important shopping zones on the city's VIVALDI project bus routes. The study found that "retailers overestimated the importance of car-borne trade by almost 100%; theyestimated that 41%...