Street Furniture News

Climate change is driving increasingly extreme weather in the UK, prompting a shift in urban design to create more weather-resilient communities. Focusing on weather-deterrent planning ensures outdoor spaces remain functional and pleasant despite harsher conditions.

Today, we are excited to announce another significant milestone in our journey. CROWD has successfully acquired Armada Mobility BV in the Netherlands. This strategic acquisition reinforces our dedication to enhancing urban living environments and underscores our position as a leader in innovative solutions for public spaces.

The scope of projects completed by Bailey Street Furniture Group in 2024 illustrates the incredible versatility and breadth of the company’s product range, as well as its expertise in providing solutions for all kinds of outdoor applications.

When innovative design is applied to outdoor urban spaces, developers, architects and site owners have the power to create or transform communities that can enrich people’s lives. The best results are achieved through ‘out of the box’ thinking to ensure new outdoor spaces offer the optimum mix of sustainability, aesthetics and functionality, and no street furniture manufacturer understands this more than Bailey Street Furniture Group (BSFG) partner out-sider.

Imaginative design gives site owners the potential to transform the functionality, aesthetics and value of outdoor spaces in ways that could not have been envisaged in previous generations. And one of the Bailey Street Furniture Group (BSFG) brand partners at the forefront of challenging convention with design-led, superbly crafted and original integrated outdoor solutions is Landscape Forms.

We are living in exciting times here at Bailey Street Furniture Group, particularly when it comes to products and our offering to the marketplace. Today we are excited about introducing HITSA and their stylish product range.

Metalco has been providing products that support sustainable urbanisation and the creation of socially connected public spaces since 1984. The company has partnered with BSFG for more than 10 years, offering a unique range of products through the group’s Artform Urban Furniture division. What sets Metalco apart is its ‘Social Design for Real Life’ vision - to create urban furniture which meets the needs of users most effectively in a way that is sustainable for the environment and for people.

The quality and visual appeal of transport hubs and interchanges, including railway stations, bus stations and tram stops, is crucially important in encouraging greater use and maximising customer satisfaction. Both are key to facilitating increased use of public transport across the country, but especially in major urban areas, where switching more people away from cars can help to improve local environmental conditions by lowering levels of road congestion, noise and air pollution.

No matter the style or location of the housing, all developments centred on placemaking share common objectives. Their design views the public areas around houses and apartment blocks as not only functional but also appealing and engaging, encouraging people to spend more time in them.

The great outdoors can work wonders for our health and wellbeing whatever the setting. In healthcare environments such as hospitals, care homes and community health facilities, however, ensuring patients, staff and visitors have easy access to well-designed outdoor spaces on-site should be a priority, given the potential for substantial benefits.