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 the resources referenced in the video as well as a downloadable PDF version of the presentation.
Accompanying resources
The following resources are referenced in the video presentation and provided background information that will be useful in creating a Forward Framework for town centre revitalisation.
- Revitalising town centres; a toolkit for councils provides online resources as part of the national guidance produced by the People & Places Partnership for the Local Government Association. The toolkit gives a step-by-step overview of creating a Forward Framework for town centre revitalisation. It includes a town centre checklist of the different components of town centre revitalisation and a summary of options for the organisational form of town partnerships.
- The town support pages of the East Suffolk Means Business web site provide access to detailed ‘Heart of Our Town’ reports for 11 East Suffolk communities and up-to-date information on support available through the East Suffolk Towns Initiative.
- Revitalising Bungay town centre; a forward framework gives a summary of the ‘how’ and ‘what’ of the revitalisation process that can be used to inform similar activity in other East Suffolk towns.
- Revitalising Bungay Town Centre Action Plan (June 2020) is an example of a finalised delivery plan.
- Southwold’s forward framework provides an example of a framework created in 2018 to help determine the ‘how’ and ‘what’ of town centre revitalisation.
- The talk of the town in East Suffolk video gives inspiring examples from communities across the district of the way stakeholders are already working together to revitalise aspects of their town centres.
Downloadable copy of presentation
Here is downloadable copy of the presentation on Creating a Forward Framework; Bungay. It can also be viewed online and contains links to all of resources referenced in the video presentation.
New resources
- This short video and accompanying blog on Taking the first steps to recovery, provides useful insights on changing customer attitudes and business practices as a first stage to creating a recovery strategy.
- This downloadable checklist for managing streets & public spaces in 2020 v3 is designed to help guide councils, town partnerships and key stakeholders wishing to work together in re-opening town centres as safe and enjoyable places to visit during post-COVID 19 recovery.
- New case studies of good practice such as the story of Leamington’s safe and welcoming reopening are available from the success stories section of this web site.
For up-to-date information on how town partnerships can respond to the COVID-19 crisis, keep an eye on the beyond COVID-19 page of this web site.
