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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More Smiling Faces in Places -a can-do guide
This downloadable guide and flipbook shares ways to improve the perceptions and experience of neighbourhood, town and city centres. Click to read flipbook….’More Smiling Faces in Places‘.
The guide introduces People & Places’ key services with accompanying case studies, covering:
- Planning & delivering revitalised town centres
- Leading change through a partnership approach
- Following 10 steps for creating places to be proud of
- Nurturing people’s sense of pride through participation
- Improving the appeal & ease of travel to town
- Linking parking & place through a customer-led process
Email services@people-places.net to learn about these approaches to bringing more smiling faces to places and how we might assist you.
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
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.
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.
For further information about these free samples and the work that they highlight, email services@people-places.net