We love it when we are able to quickly move from survey to solutions in our work to improve town centres. Take for example, Abergele in Conwy, North Wales. Our Spring survey and subsequent ‘Heart of Our Town’ report on the High Street and wider social and economic issues provided a focus for our engagement…
When we were looking for a new office base in the East of England, a company with a mission to “support great ideas and the people behind them to make an impact”, seemed the perfect match. That’s why from this week, the new registered office for the People and Places Partnership Limited will be the…
Abergele is a small, rural town in the county of Conwy in North Wales. Situated between Colwyn Bay and Prestatyn, lying between the coast and Snowdonia mountains and with great road and rail links, Abergele provides a great environment to live-in. All reasons why 750 new homes are planned to be built in Abergele over…
Should you consider Community Shares if you have good idea or simply stick with grants and more traditional sources of funding? What are Community Shares? Community Shares raise money by offering local people to invest in the ownership of a new cooperative venture. It’s not an ‘either/or’ alternative as Community Shares are often used to…
The changing face of the High Street and the current policy and retail context is considered in detail in this report published by English Heritage (now known as Historic England). It considers what this might mean for town centre regeneration over the next few years. Its case studies demonstrate what town centre regeneration can achieve through an innovative approach…
This new report published by the British Retail Consortium , Retail 2020, sets out how the retail workplace landscape is expected to change in the coming years. It suggests that store closures on UK high streets and town centres could exacerbate the impact on employment in already fragile communities with weaker regions and the most…
The rate of change within the future retail workforce is set to quicken as the digital revolution reshapes the industry, more property leases come up for renewal and the cost of labour goes up, while the cost of technology goes down. These effects could mean there are as many as 900,000 fewer future retail jobs by 2025…
Town Centre Investment Zones -Getting investment back into the High Street: Summary report of the Fragmented Ownership Group published by the British Property Federation This newly published report gives a great overview of one of the big ideas that could help re-invigorate our town centres. Town Centre Investment Management and Zones involves the pooling of a…