How does where we live affect how healthy we are? This extended article looks at the opportunities for creating healthier places through community-based partnerships that combine public health and care aims. It also considers what, if any, might be the similarities and overlaps with wider place-based, partnership approaches to improving local quality of life. Overlapping…
DetailsImagine refurbished, heritage buildings on your high street that are owned and occupied by community enterprises, provide important services, attract footfall and contribute proactively to the wider reshaping and image of your town or city centre. That is the prospect that the Government is looking to support through recent legislation in the English Devolution and…
DetailsWith so much discussion about the roles of citizens in shaping places as the U.K. Government rolls-out plans for local devolution, community empowerment and pride in place, it’s essential as partners in your place to determine your collective approach. To help you get ahead, at People & Places we have done some of the thinking…
DetailsAt the People & Places Partnership we have been working carefully over the last year to piece together a place policy checklist. Our aim is to help guide council, community and commercial place partners through the raft of new national policy initiatives in a way that can help apply them to their neighbourhood, town or…
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