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At 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…
What is the link between how we experience and perceive places in creating ‘pride in place’ or similar sentiments? And what are the roles of place managers and branders in influencing our experiences and perceptions of places? Those were questions foremost in my mind when I took a deep dive into international indices measuring either…
At the People & Places Partnership we have welcomed the focus of successive U.K. Governments on boosting pride in place amongst the communities of our neighbourhoods, town and city centres. Such thinking aligns with our own approach of making places work for local people as demonstrated by the creation in 2018 of the national revitalising…
In our quest to boost local pride in place -including as the focus of new U.K. Government funding- how much thought do we give to the receptiveness of people within a place? In this post, as part of the wider, accompanying research, we focus on the potential for pride in youthful and disadvantaged places, as…
At the People & Places Partnership we have come to consider choices made on the family sofa as key to the future success of our town and city centres. We see the journey from sofa to shop as a chain of connected thought processes and physical travel that takes people into town -or not! Touch…
How can we set-about shaping the future of market and coastal towns in Norfolk and across a nation? If our neighbourhood and town centres do not noticeably improve in the coming years, it won’t be because people don’t care. What will leave people frustrated and fail to deliver a much-heralded boost to ‘pride in place’,…
Pride in places is built on people’s sense of attachment and involvement in shaping neighbourhoods, town or city centres that are familiar to them. We can only hope to engender such pride by having a better understanding of such sentiments and how to reach out to different types of residents. Here, we share a younger…
What will be the impact on local empowerment and support for growth, fromdevolution’s different paces in different places. Specifically, in my role as Director at People & Places, I wanted to understand the implications for influencing place-based policy and support for delivering growth through local government reorganisation and devolution via a new layer of strategic…
What are the options for improving place-based governance that will ensure better local decision-making following devolution and local government reorganisation in England? That is a key question that Graham Galpin and I pose in our newly published viewpoint article for the Journal of Place Management and Development. Rather than fixing on one single model, in the…
In this ever-evolving blog, we share our understanding of the place policy puzzle that has emerged since the current government came to power in July 2024. Our aim is to help different place partners to work together and assemble the relevant pieces to fit the picture of their city, town or neighbourhood, including most recently…