This section of the Talk of the Town Ideas Library, offers free taster publications for you to sample and download. We will continue to add to this list of free town tasters as more come online.
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Place Branding Beneath the Skin -a Good Practice Guide
This downloadable good practice guide looks at the key elements and guiding principles for a ‘think-local first’ approach to place branding that gets beneath the skin of a place, applied to Lowestoft in conjunction with East Suffolk Council. Click to download….Place branding beneath the skin -a good practice guide
This post on promoting pride in place through progress includes our draft set of ten pointers about the potential role of promoting pride in place through the application of place branding with placemaking.
Town Centre Forward Framework
This downloadable summary ‘forward framework’ for Bungay is an example of the evidenced-led approach to town centre revitalisation set-out in the LGA revitalising town centres online toolkit. An overview of a district-wide approach creating forward frameworks for 12 towns is provided by this short video on ‘Talk of the Towns’ in East Suffolk. More details about the process are available from creating a forward framework for town centre revitalisation.
Click to download…revitalising Bungay town centre; a forward framework
The Shared Prosperity Fund: Potential Interventions for Town Centres
This downloadable report can be used by councils and partners to guide the development and monitoring of Shared Prosperity Fund investment plans to maximise the opportunities for town centres.
Click to download… Shared Prosperity Fund and potential interventions for town centres
Local Leadership Checklist
The purpose of this free, downloadable local leadership checklist is to help local leaders get an indication of progress in developing an actio plan with an effective town team or place partnership behind it.
Click to download… local-leadership-checklist. Here’s an example of the checklist applied to Selby in North Yorkshire. You can get a copy of our new ‘checklist of success factors for creating place partnerships‘ by contacting us at services@people-places.net
People, Places & Parking Process
Find out more about the People, Places & Parking Process by reading this introductory guide. The service is designed to improve the positive role of parking in underpinning town centre vitality by taken a customer-focused review of parking quality, quantity, convenience and cost. There is case study published with the LGA about linking parking and place in Sleaford.
Click to download the People, Places & Parking Proces service introduction.
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