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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...

POLICY AND POLITICS

Place does not forget

By By Claire Spencer | 19 November 2024

Claire Spencer writes: 'When your place becomes a decades-long record of being failed and forgott...

PLACE-MAKING

Creative space – a council's secret weapon

By Tom Holley | 31 October 2024

Integrating creative activities in place-making settings offers many benefits that align with cou...

LOCAL ECONOMIES

Creating true place-based policy

By By Cllr James Lewis | 03 October 2024

Core Cities has worked with colleagues to come up with some basic principles of public sector ref...

LOCAL ECONOMIES

Back to a better place?

By Adam Fineberg | 02 October 2024

Adam Fineberg looks back at 2000-09 and argues that a future focus on growth could enable Total P...

PREVENTION

The power of prevention

By Ben Franklin | 12 September 2024

Ben Franklin makes the case for putting communities at the heart of the new preventative state

PLACE-MAKING

Getting to the heart of the matter

By Jonathan Werran | 12 September 2024

Jonathan Werran introduces Localis’ latest report, which sets out ‘a roadmap for a transformative...

POLICY

A quiet revolution

By Anna Randle | 07 August 2024

Anna Randle considers how the collaboration agenda across public services has changed in the past...

PLACE-MAKING

Designing places: a gender-informed approach

By Marina Milosev | 26 July 2024

Marina Milosev looks at the aims behind the launch of the LLDC’’s handbook on designing spaces to...