We are excited to share that we have brought together Australian and United Kingdom know-how, to create a pilot course for boosting ‘pride in place’ in neighbourhoods, towns and city centres. And like all good community participation, we are inviting existing and would-be placemakers and managers from communities, councils and commercial interests to help…
Australian placemaking and United Kingdom place management have come together in the creation of on-line course about boosting ‘pride in place’ and ‘putting partnerships place’ to improve the prospects of neighbourhoods, towns and city centres. The courses, which shares Australian and U.K. experiences, are pitched at respective domestic and international audiences. In bringing together in…
What is the link between access to inclusive and inviting green spaces and our sense of satisfaction or pride in where we live? With the government seeking to boost ‘pride in place’ through improvements to green spaces, I thought I’d share benchmarks in access to parks in cities, towns and neighbourhoods, that might help understand…
What to do if your struggling town centre has the highest business vacancy rate in England, your historic Market Hall is failing to attract new because of the perceived low quality and poor variety of the food offer, and your town has been listed as the 12th worst place to live in the U.K. by…
The Streets Ahead report published by the Royal Society of Public Health seeks to provide guidance and recommendations for “building health on the high street”. As a specialised report, it is remarkably striking in the synergy it shows with wider approaches to revitalising town and city centres. The steps that the Streets Ahead report by…
It ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it! Here we focus on how to turn-around town centres by supporting collaborative placemaking. This is based on the People & Places Partnership’s work to help Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council review how it supports communities in revitalising six town centres. It also draws…
I believe that everyone has at least one culinary cultural tale inside them. Some, have many more. Such tales often begin with something like, “If you go into city centre, make sure you get something to eat at…” Put the tales together and we start to create a city’s culinary cultural story book. Food as…
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.…
What should we read into signs of the government’s place-based approach increasingly focusing policy on neighbourhood renewal? This March saw the publication of two key pointers to such a government focus on addressing decline at the ‘neighbourhood’ level. The rebranding of the Long Term Plan for Towns to the Plan for Neighbourhoods, was accompanied by…