A new baseline review & action plan has been produced for Hereford city centre following a three-month research and consultation process aimed at improving Hereford’s look and feel for residents, businesses and visitors. The city centre action planning process has been being carried out by the People & Places Partnership on behalf of Hereford City Council,…
We are excited to share that we have brought together Australian and United Kingdom know-how, to create a pilot course for boosting ‘pride in place’ in neighbourhoods, towns and city centres. And like all good community participation, we are inviting existing and would-be placemakers and managers from communities, councils and commercial interests to help…
Australian placemaking and United Kingdom place management have come together in the creation of on-line course about boosting ‘pride in place’ and ‘putting partnerships place’ to improve the prospects of neighbourhoods, towns and city centres. The courses, which shares Australian and U.K. experiences, are pitched at respective domestic and international audiences. In bringing together in…
What is the link between access to inclusive and inviting green spaces and our sense of satisfaction or pride in where we live? With the government seeking to boost ‘pride in place’ through improvements to green spaces, I thought I’d share benchmarks in access to parks in cities, towns and neighbourhoods, that might help understand…
As part of its Pride in Place Strategy, the Government has announced that 95 local authorities across England, Scotland and Wales will each recieve £1.5 million for investing in spaces and places over 18 months. Here we explain more about how this money available through the ‘Impact Fund’ can be invested and try to seperate…
The U.K. Government has announced a new ‘Pride in Place Programme’ with the prominent promise of new powers to help community-based partnerships improve town centres. This post cuts through some of the rhetoric and explains about those powers; sets-out the programme’s three geographical levels of support; and assesses the requied role of ‘Neighbourhood Boards’. The…
What to do if your struggling town centre has the highest business vacancy rate in England, your historic Market Hall is failing to attract new because of the perceived low quality and poor variety of the food offer, and your town has been listed as the 12th worst place to live in the U.K. by…
The Streets Ahead report published by the Royal Society of Public Health seeks to provide guidance and recommendations for “building health on the high street”. As a specialised report, it is remarkably striking in the synergy it shows with wider approaches to revitalising town and city centres. The steps that the Streets Ahead report by…
It ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it! Here we focus on how to turn-around town centres by supporting collaborative placemaking. This is based on the People & Places Partnership’s work to help Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council review how it supports communities in revitalising six town centres. It also draws…
I believe that everyone has at least one culinary cultural tale inside them. Some, have many more. Such tales often begin with something like, “If you go into city centre, make sure you get something to eat at…” Put the tales together and we start to create a city’s culinary cultural story book. Food as…