The People & Places Partnership is working with East Suffolk Council, Leiston Town Council, Leiston Together and other local partners in revitalising Leiston town centre. This page provides access to resources created as part of this work, as well as links to related guidance. Revitalising Leiston town centre You can read or download a copy…
As town and city centres prepare to reopen and public opinion is presented as being increasingly divided, we look at what the national data tells us about the challenges of balancing health and wealth on the high street. Rising economic concerns Economic concerns are, not surprisingly, creeping up the national consciousness. According to a…
This downloadable checklist on creating a town centre recovery plan provides a valuable resource to local leaders in responding to the COVID-19 crisis. It supplements the updated revitalising town centres online toolkit that the People & Places Partnership has prepared for the Local Government Association (LGA) and can be read alongside our free, downloadable checklist…
Here we take a closer look at how to make best use of the Government’s announcement of £50 million of funding for reopening high streets. The Reopening High Streets Safely Fund launched on May 24th is aimed help councils in England introduce a range of safety measures to assist in kick-starting local economies by getting…
The People & Places Partnership is working with East Suffolk Council, Saxmundham Town Council and local partners in revitalising Saxmundham town centre. This page provides access to resources created as part of this work, as well as links to related guidance. Revitalising Saxmundham town centre You can read or download a copy of the summary…
The People & Places Partnership has published new guidance for councils, communities and business groups on re-opening town centres as part of the first steps to recovery post-COVID 19. Managing streets & spaces in 2020 This downloadable checklist for managing streets & public spaces in 2020 (version 3) has been prepared by People & Places…
The People & Places Partnerships can use its know-how to help towns across the country to take a long-look at the impacts and provide COVID-19 recovery planning support. We’d be delighted to share a virtual coffee with you and see how we might add some fresh thinking through COVID-19 recovery planning support alongside the local…
As town and city centres move from the crisis stage of COVID-19 crisis towards recovery, this short video on taking the first steps to town centre recovery explains the importance of understanding what has changed in a place, its customers and businesses. There is an blog “First steps to recovery” with more details about what…
Creating a Forward Framework for town centre revitalisation provides communities with a template for determining the ‘how’ and the ‘what’ of transforming their high streets. This video presentation gives an overview of creating a Forward Framework for town centre revitalisation using the East Suffolk town of Bungay as an example. Below are links to all…
As plans unfold for progressively re-opening our town & city centres, we consider the necessary first steps to recovery through first learning about what has changed. We do this by pulling together available evidence from national surveys of how business practices and customer perceptions have changed during the initial crisis phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. …