This downloadable checklist on creating a town centre recovery plan provides a valuable resource to local leaders in responding to the COVID-19 crisis. It supplements the updated revitalising town centres online toolkit that the People & Places Partnership has prepared for the Local Government Association (LGA) and can be read alongside our free, downloadable checklist…
The People & Places Partnership has published new guidance for councils, communities and business groups on re-opening town centres as part of the first steps to recovery post-COVID 19. Managing streets & spaces in 2020 This downloadable checklist for managing streets & public spaces in 2020 (version 3) has been prepared by People & Places…
The People & Places Partnerships can use its know-how to help towns across the country to take a long-look at the impacts and provide COVID-19 recovery planning support. We’d be delighted to share a virtual coffee with you and see how we might add some fresh thinking through COVID-19 recovery planning support alongside the local…
As town and city centres move from the crisis stage of COVID-19 crisis towards recovery, this short video on taking the first steps to town centre recovery explains the importance of understanding what has changed in a place, its customers and businesses. There is an blog “First steps to recovery” with more details about what…
Creating a Forward Framework for town centre revitalisation provides communities with a template for determining the ‘how’ and the ‘what’ of transforming their high streets. This video presentation gives an overview of creating a Forward Framework for town centre revitalisation using the East Suffolk town of Bungay as an example. Below are links to all…
As plans unfold for progressively re-opening our town & city centres, we consider the necessary first steps to recovery through first learning about what has changed. We do this by pulling together available evidence from national surveys of how business practices and customer perceptions have changed during the initial crisis phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. …
Our new Talk of the Towns in East Suffolk video demonstrates two points that are key to revitalising town centres across the country: firstly, it is necessary to seek to understand and tackle a range of inter-related issues; secondly there is a lot to be learnt from how and what other towns are achieving to address…
A creative new High Street Challenge fund has been launched to inject imagination in to the way public property contributes to the vitality of town centres. The High Street Challenge Fund will offer a combination of cash and expertise to one town centre selected to act as a test-bed for fresh thinking. Problem solving The…
Dated policies and an unfair tax regime must be reformed to create an environment that will allow high streets and town centres to flourish in the future. That is the message from the High Streets and Town Centres in 2030 report published by the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee in February. Locally-led strategies The…
This case study shows how North Kesteven District Council undertook a customer-led review of parking provision resulting in a joined-up approach to parking and place in Sleaford town centre. The outcomes are improved benefits for a range of town centre customers and businesses alongside increased council revenue to re-invest in the parking service. Like many…