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REGENERATION
Regeneration: Tenacity, not tenure: keeping a long-term project on track
By Nick Eveleigh | 23 December 2025
Delivering a new train station in Chelmsford has been a decades-long project. Nick Eveleigh reflects on the long-term nature of delivering what really matters to local communities.
REGENERATION
Reorganisation: Never underestimate the power of placemaking
By Jackie Sadek | 22 December 2025
There is plenty of money available for regeneration and economic growth, says Jackie Sadek. Just ...
PLACE-MAKING
People, purpose – and power
By Ellen Care | 19 December 2025
Five pioneering councils have teamed up with Collaborate CIC to share insight, solve problems col...
PROCUREMENT
Good Contract Management: The Foundation for Economic Growth and Value
By Rekha Thawrani | 04 December 2025
Good contract management is fundamental to place-shaping, enabling local authorities to deliver t...
COMMUNITIES
Shared power, shared Pride
By Helen Power | 17 November 2025
If the Government’s Pride in Place funding model can be operationalised in a way that kickstarts ...
REORGANISATION
Five keys to making reorganisation work
By Ian Fytche | 22 October 2025
Ian Fytche makes the case for framing a proposal for reorganisation based on five principles of h...
REORGANISATION
Our residents want us to get the basics right
By Sheila Oxtoby | 09 October 2025
Reorganisation proposals have gone in to the MHCLG, but residents want a focus on basic service d...
PLACE-MAKING
Engage, design, deliver: how collaboration can boost a community's prospects
By Ross Aitchison | 02 September 2025
With a collectively minded approach to engagement and design, aspirational place policies can del...
PLACE-MAKING
Cities that measure what's easy will miss what's essential
By Nick Kemp | 28 July 2025
Cllr Nick Kemp explains how a city-level environmental, social and governance framework for Newca...
PLACE-MAKING
Place is dead, long live Place!
By Stephen Moir | 30 June 2025
It’s time to embrace the opportunity of reform to really put place to the forefront of all that w...
INVESTMENT
Green Book Review: Evolution not revolution for local investment
By Simon Dancer | 19 June 2025
Treasury's latest review of the Green Book holds the line on orthodoxy but offers cautious encour...
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We do not settle for the status quo. Apply for this job
Service Director - Highways
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