English Heritage's campaign to clear clutter from our streets has broad support. Anton Cannell flicks through the pages of Streets for All- the latest initiative in the English Heritage (EH) campaign to rid our streets of clutter. The landscape architect for Kingston-upon-Hull City Council reckons EH is doing a good job. The 80 or so pages on the Yorkshire and Humber region are a diatribe against dirty streets full of naff bins and dented signposts. Through case studies and guidelines, EH hopes one of the biggest demolition jobs since the Blitz will pave the way for new design icons as popular as the red telephone box and Paris Metro signs. Each of the eight EH zones has its own manual. More than 100 councils were scrutinising the new manual after its recent publication, a year after the Save Our Streets campaign was launched by travel writer Bill Bryson. Most will wonder, like Cannell, what it takes to overturn decades of misguided policy and mountains of street clutter to turn mean streets into clean streets.
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