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How much of national policy and local practice in revitalising neighbourhoods, town and city centres comes down to achieving a simple aim of …’getting more smiling faces in places’? At the People & Places Partnership, we have adopted this simple mantra to provide a focus for our work with councils and communities and commercial interests. …
The interesting aspect of the recent announcement for the Visitor Levy in England, is not the decision made that it is going ahead -that’s been a foregone conclusion since last year’s Budget. The key decisions are the ones still to be made by Strategic Authorities about how they will be making the most of the…
We realise that these are uncertain times for communities faced by what seems an ever-deepening set of issues and institutional uncertainty with the roll-out of devolution and local government reorganisation. At the national level, there seems to be increasing mention of the importance of ‘place’ and murmurings about community empowerment, without a readily available route…
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…
Imagine 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…
With 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…
At the People & Places Partnership we have been working carefully over the last two years 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…
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…