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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 deliver the framework for real and lasting change for our neighbourhoods, says Ross Aitchison.
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...
PLACE-MAKING
Planning for places
By Rob Thomas | 17 June 2025
As delegates gather this week at the Welsh Local Government Association Conference, Rob Thomas en...
PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM
A second wind for Total Place?
By Dan Corry | 11 June 2025
To crack the triple challenge of public service reform, it’s vital to start with place, says Dan ...
COMMUNITIES
How ageism shapes the design of our communities
By Natalie Turner | 24 February 2025
Natalie Turner explains how ageism can impact how older people engage with their local community ...
PLACE-MAKING
Planning changes can transform local engagement and democracy
By Mike Saunders | 13 February 2025
Technology is a key enabler with a strong and exciting role to play in catalysing community engag...
PLACE-MAKING
Rediscovering the purpose of economic strategy
By Sarah Longlands | 05 February 2025
Being able to identify and focus in on the key objective – the ‘why’ – of economic policy is unde...
PLACE-MAKING
In need of a place lift
By Stephen Taylor | 15 January 2025
Stephen Taylor says there is no need to wait for the English Devolution Bill to trundle through b...
PLACE-MAKING
Rallying for a more balanced Britain
By Susan Jarvis | 20 December 2024
The mayors of Liverpool and Manchester’s ambition for the two city regions to work more closely t...
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Up to £52,767 per annum (subject to experience) p
Are you a passionate and experienced Social Worker ready to change lives and shape futures? Apply for this job
Director of Business Solutions
£133,234
This is a unique opportunity to play a central role in shaping the region’s economic future and driving long-term prosperity. Apply for this job
Head of Investment and Development
Up to £92,483
Walsall is a borough with big ambitions. Apply for this job
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