The document provides guidance on transforming a town centre, using Tooting Town Centre as an example. It outlines steps to recognize issues, develop a vision for the future, map out the space, get community input, refine ideas, seek skills and funding, and put proposals to local leaders. Visualizations and an implemented result from a group called Urban Movement are shown as examples. Currently, funding is being sought to create a visualization for proposed plans in Tooting Broadway.

1. Transforming your Town Centre
Quick DIY Guide
Example used: Tooting Town Centre
Current status: Work in progress
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2. Transforming your Town Centre
● Recognise the problem
(bull in society's China shop – copenhagenize.com)
● Imagine the future – Vision
● Practical stuff i.e. making it happen

3. Transforming your Town Centre
● Map out the space available to you

4. Transforming your Town Centre
● Map out the space available to you
● Check pedestrianiselondon.tumblr.com if
need ideas / help (Twitter: @pauljames)

5. Transforming your Town Centre
● Check what others think
● Contact your local Living Streets / London Cycling
Campaign group
● Refine your ideas / tweak them

6. Transforming your Town Centre
● Check for local skills &/or funding to do this
– Thanks to http://www.urbanmovement.co.uk / John Dales for pics
Before

7. Transforming your Town Centre
● Check for local skills &/or funding to do this
– Thanks to http://www.urbanmovement.co.uk / John Dales for pics
Visualisation

8. Transforming your Town Centre
● Check for local skills &/or funding to do this
– Thanks to http://www.urbanmovement.co.uk / John Dales for pics
Implemented result

9. Transforming your Town Centre
● Currently pending outcome of funding bid to create
visualisation based on proposed plans
Tooting Broadway Today – looking south along CS7

10. Transforming your Town Centre
● Build a business case – Tooting Town Centre
commissioned a report showing 83% of shoppers travel
to Tooting without using a car. Duplicates Sustrans
town centre case study findings.
● No drive-thru's in Tooting – 100%* of customers enter
local businesses on foot (*almost - exceptions mobility
scooter users/some disabled people)
● Put your ideas forward to local Councillors and
Business community – build support there, then go for
wider community

11. Transforming your Town Centre
Change never 'just' happens.
People make change happen.
Everyone reading this is one of those people.
Together we are making a difference.

12. Transforming your Town Centre
● Useful links
● Tooting Town Centre 09-1005 Experian Gap Analysis report –
http://ww3.wandsworth.gov.uk/moderngov/documents/s9480/09-1005%20-%20Experian%20Gap%20A
● Sustrans – Information sheets 'Shoppers and how they travel – LN02'
http://www.sustrans.org.uk/resources/publications/information-sheets
● Urban Movement - http://www.urbanmovement.co.uk/
● Pedestrianise London - http://pedestrianiselondon.tumblr.com/