At the People & Places Partnership we have been working carefully over the last year 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 or…
How can we set-about shaping the future of market and coastal towns in Norfolk and across a nation? If our neighbourhood and town centres do not noticeably improve in the coming years, it won’t be because people don’t care. What will leave people frustrated and fail to deliver a much-heralded boost to ‘pride in place’,…
Amongst the many performance measures to be expected in the ‘post-programme findings of the High Streets Task Force’, I was most interested to read and understand the final section titled ‘legacy’. This concluding section of the report published recently by the Institute of Place Management (IPM), presents suggestions for long-term learning and impact by presenting…
All in the same boat and rowing in the same direction; pick your nautical metaphors for creating a place partnership behind a plan. Our prognosis, backed by experience and evidence, is that the towns and cities that progress beyond expectations over the next decade, will be those with an action-oriented partnership behind an evidence-based plan.…
‘Putting partnerships in place’ seems such an obvious prerequisite to revitalising town and city centres, that sometimes it seems surprising to see it promoted as part of good practice. It was great though recently, to be reminded of our work in Lincoln when reading the latest Institute of Place Management (IPM) case study on the…
How can stakeholders in your town or city work together in preparing for a decade of progress? A big part of our work at the People & Places Partnership, is helping local councils, communities and business to come together to turn-around town and city centres. Here we look at the ways ministers’ comments to last…
One of the key issues emerging from the Government’s push in the Kings Speach for new homes (not just houses!), is determining who will care for the concrete cows or other community, environmental and cultural assets in proposed new settlements. Investing in community assets If the aim is to create attractive and appealing new communities…
This guidance note on governance for long-term stewardship was recently recently published by tbe Town and Country Planning Association. Although aimed at the development of new communities, this guidance note on “governance for long-term stewardship” provides good practice that is useful in retrofitting the stewardship of exising communities. The guidance note defines long-term stewardship as…
We love this review by the Institute of Place Management of the findings from High Streets Task Force engagement with partners working to improve 140 town and city centres. We love that this report about “making the most of high street investment” offers empirical evidence about the ‘how’ of town centre revitalisation and most specifically…
It was great recently to be back in Ballinasloe celebrating the success of combining enterprise and community development in boosting the vitality and viability of the County Galway town. This was a visit made even more enjoyable because supporting the work of Ballinasloe Area Community Development (BACD) has been one of my favourite projects during…