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BetaStreets has been selected as one of eight companies to join the Diatomic Digital Accelerator, delivered by Connected Places Catapult, to support innovation, economic growth, and job creation in the West Midlands.

Working in collaboration with Birmingham City Council and The Transportation Consultancy, the project will develop a purpose-built version of the BetaStreets platform for use in the Birmingham Knowledge Quarter. The tool will enable local communities, students and stakeholders to visualise and co-design streets and public spaces across key locations, including Aston University, Birmingham City University and Curzon Street Station for HS2.

The programme will also support the integration of BetaStreets with a regional Digital Twin to allow users to explore and understand real-world data within an interactive, map-based environment.

For more information about BetaStreets, visit betastreets.co.uk or to arrange a demo of our software please email contact@betastreets.co.uk.

BetaStreets is excited to announce the launch of Version 2.0, a major upgrade that makes collaborative street design faster, clearer, and more powerful than ever.

The new release introduces an improved interface, streamlined editing tools, and enhanced performance—helping planners, designers, and community organisations create and iterate street designs with ease. Users can now access expanded asset libraries, enriched visual outputs, and improved workflows for sharing designs and gathering feedback.

Version 2.0 reflects our continued commitment to making high-quality street design accessible to everyone, from local authorities and consultants to communities shaping change at a neighbourhood level.

BetaStreets 2.0 is now available to all existing users.

Explore what’s new and start designing the streets of the future today!

For more information about BetaStreets, visit betastreets.co.uk or to arrange a demo of our software please email contact@betastreets.co.uk.

BetaStreets are delighted to announce we have secured £150,000 from the Department for Transport and Connected Places Catapult., in collaboration with Suffolk County Council and 360 imagery and data provider Cyclomedia.

The grant funding, awarded through the Rural Transport Accelerator will be used to develop RuralStreets 360, a new version of our street design and visualisation software. RuralStreets is on the BetaStreets engine, but incorporates 360 imagery, hosted on a map-based portal for conversation and collaboration between local authorities, design teams and communities.

RuralStreets 360 is free for people to use who are interested in having a go at redesigning streets and places in southeast Suffolk (including roads around Felixstowe, Ipswich, and Woodbridge).

For more information about BetaStreets, visit betastreets.co.uk or to arrange a demo of our software please email contact@betastreets.co.uk.

Since April 2024 we’ve been working with Suffolk County Council and Connected Places Catapult on the development of our new BetaStreets 360 Engage platform through the Department for Transport’s Rural Transport Accelerator.

Following a period of testing and development we launched the RuralStreets 360 pilot at the grand finale of the Tour of Britain Cycle Race in Felixstowe, Suffolk.

More recently we’ve been supporting Suffolk County Council at project engagement events using the new version of our software to help residents highlight issues and opportunities and also develop their own design ideas.

We’ve supported Suffolk with events for proposed active travel schemes in Copdock, Capel St Mary, Felixstowe and Woodbridge.

For more information about BetaStreets, visit betastreets.co.uk or to arrange a demo of our software please email contact@betastreets.co.uk.

Autumn 2024 was a busy time for us. With our RuralStreets 360 project with Suffolk County Council in full swing, we also found the time to move into a new office in Mainyard Studios, Wallis Road in Hackney Wick, the same day as we were filmed for a new promo.

If you’re in the area and want to pop by we’d love to show you around. We’re really lucky that our office is part of Number 90, with it’s canal side bar and music venue!

You’ll have to wait until after the new year to see the film but if you want to come to Number 90, arrange a catchup with us to come and check it out!!

For more information about BetaStreets, visit betastreets.co.uk or to arrange a demo of our software please email contact@betastreets.co.uk.

BetaStreets are delighted to have been working with street furniture manufacturer and cycle parking specialists Falco.

Falco are one of the World's leading manufacturers of street furniture and cycle parking, offering 20,000 items globally. In the UK they are best known for their high-quality cycle parking solutions. A selection of Falco's range of streets furniture and cycle parking products are now available in the BetaStreets library of things.

BetaStreets is a purpose-built design and visualisation tool for use in street design, highways and placemaking. BetaStreets is a Computer-Generated Image (GGI) design tool developed to make street design, and placemaking accessible to anyone.

Anyone can use BetaStreets to build their vision of the future. It lets people use images of the present, combined with new materials or items of street furniture (like the FalcoPod Bike Hangar and PerfoRound Litter Bin pictured) from the BetaStreets Library of Things to make and share their visions of how streets and places could be.

BetaStreets has been designed to work for everyone, from people thinking about their street for the first time, to traffic engineers and public realm designers, working every day in street design and associated industries.

For beginners, BetaStreets enables someone to create a simple but professional looking transformation of a normal street into a place for people, with space for sitting, more trees and for people cycling. It increases participation in the design process by removing barriers to inclusion.

For designers, the tool can be used as a design aid in the field, or to create powerful images for use in public engagement, funding applications or reports, with high-quality visualisations possible in the fraction of the time it normally takes.

There is more exciting news on the way on other collaborations in the coming months and the anticipated general release of BetaStreets Pro.

For more information about BetaStreets, visit betastreets.co.uk or to arrange a demo of our software please email contact@betastreets.co.uk.

BetaStreets is delighted to announce the launch of BetaStreets x LCC, its collaboration with London Cycling Campaign. BetaStreets x LCC is a purpose-built version of the BetaStreets platform., available to members of London Cycling in the lead up to the local elections in May 2022.

Once signed up members can use the software to create a transformation of a street in the borough they live or work in. LCC will also be asking local people to suggest streets that need transforming if the capital is to have a zero-carbon road system by 2030.

The visualisations can then be used to raise awareness and gain political commitment to positive change to support more active travel. This is to be a key part of the Climate Safe Streets campaign

BetaStreets

BetaStreets is a purpose-built design and visualisation tool for use in street design, highways and placemaking. BetaStreets is a Computer-Generated Image (CGI) design tool developed to make street design, and placemaking accessible to anyone.

BetaStreets simplifies the design process, meaning high quality visualisations can be created in the fraction of the time it would take to produce the same using traditional methods. It lets people use images of the present, combined with items from our library of street furniture and materials to make visions of how streets and places could be.

For beginners, BetaStreets enables someone to create a simple transformation of a normal street into a place for people. It increases participation in the design process by removing barriers to inclusion.

For professionals BetaStreets can be used as a design tool in the field or desktop, to create powerful images for use in public engagement, funding applications or design reports.

The #ClimateSafeStreets campaign

London Cycling Campaign is calling for the next council leaders across London's 33 boroughs to take bold and urgent action on the climate crisis to reduce emissions fast. Council leaders elected in 2022 will be in post until 2026 – with just one term after that until 2030, when London must be carbon neutral according to Mayor Sadiq Khan (and experts and LCC).

So, the next four years will be vitally important. If council leaders cannot or will not deliver on climate emissions boldly now, it'll be too late by the end of this term to reach 2030 targets just four years later. Leaders must act now, in the next four years.

For more information about BetaStreets, visit betastreets.co.uk or to arrange a demo of our software please email contact@betastreets.co.uk.

BetaStreets is delighted to announce our first TV appearance. Our team and the BetaStreets platform features on a sustainable transport special of BBC technology show Click. Andy and Jon met presenter Spencer Kelly in a studio in Islington.

Spencer went out with the BetaStreets team into the local streets to get some photos. Once they had got some good shots, they went back into the office for a chat about BetaStreets and to give Spencer a chance to have a go at transforming a street. The episode of Click can be found here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00166mj

BetaStreets

BetaStreets is a purpose-built design and visualisation tool for use in street design, highways and placemaking. BetaStreets is a Computer-Generated Image (CGI) design tool developed to make street design, and placemaking accessible to anyone.

BetaStreets simplifies the design process, meaning high quality visualisations can be created in the fraction of the time it would take to produce the same using traditional methods. It lets people use images of the present, combined with items from our library of street furniture and materials to make visions of how streets and places could be.

For beginners, BetaStreets enables someone to create a simple transformation of a normal street into a place for people. It increases participation in the design process by removing barriers to inclusion.

For professionals BetaStreets can be used as a design tool in the field or desktop, to create powerful images for use in public engagement, funding applications or design reports.

Click

Click is the BBC's flagship technology programme hosted by Spencer Kelly and Lara Lewington. It's on both TV and radio - across five BBC channels - and can be found on many social networks and iPlayer. The simplest way we've worked out to describe what we do is "the best debate on global technology, social media and the internet," or "your guide to all the latest gadgets, websites, games and computer industry news".

For more information about BetaStreets, visit betastreets.co.uk or to arrange a demo of our software please email contact@betastreets.co.uk.