Social value

Create Streets

Create Streets report shows how building pubs into new towns from the start creates stronger high streets and thriving communities.

It looks at how we can relearn the art of making attractive, popular high streets, village greens and public realm for residents to be good neighbours, where pubs and shops can play their important practical and emotional part.

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The report examines the social and economic value of pubs and the policy challenges threatening their long‑term sustainability, arguing that despite their national and local importance, the current regulatory environment is working against their future. 

Pubs as Social Infrastructure

Pubs are more than venues for alcohol. They are vital community ‘Third Spaces’ that have existed as part of the UK’s cultural fabric for centuries, providing safe, inclusive spaces which foster connection and promote social cohesion where people not only strengthen existing bonds but also form new connections.

This report demonstrates how these embedded social institutions generate measurable wellbeing benefits for millions of people. Recognising these benefits is fundamental to ensure that policymakers can craft more proportionate, evidence-based alcohol and community policies. Such policies would protect the ability of pubs to fulfil this function into the future, as diverse, vibrant, community hubs that create economic growth, maximise their social value to communities and contribute to greater mental wellbeing through tackling loneliness and social isolation.