Organise a neighbourhood Play Streets event

Play Streets are all about providing a safe environment for children and parents to be active in their neighbourhood through play and engaging socially with their neighbours.

They are small, resident-led, local events, held on quiet neighbourhood streets during daylight hours. Temporary vehicle restrictions make it easier for residents to organise their own play street events compared with larger scale events.

Read more about Play Streets on the Sport New Zealand website.(external link)

Play Streets events are only suited to certain types of streets. Here are key things to consider when decided if your street might be a good place to hold an event. 

• Light traffic (particularly at the time of day or week that the event is planned for).
• Typically has low traffic speeds.
• Not a key connecting or through route for wider traffic.
• Not a bus route. Or buses do not use the street on the time and day of the event.
• Not typically used by emergency vehicles.
• The streets that directly connect to your street don’t have lots of vehicles or high traffic speeds.

See the Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency website for the full guidelines(external link).

We're here to help 

We are supporting these events by providing equipments such as speakers, bean bags, gazebos and sports gear (if it is available om your event date).

Please complete the short form below if you are interested in holding a Play Streets event and we'll be in touch to work through the details. 

Your details

Name:

Contact phone number:

Email:

Organisation: (if applicable)

Play Streets event details

Date of your event:

Name of the street where you want to hold your event:

Please provide a short description of your event: