The Paradox of measuring Community Impact
Several discussions during last week’s Restitch Summit centred on the “ecosystem” of community regeneration, exploring those systems and...
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May 20, 20222 min read
Local Communities & Health Inequalities
Nicola Bacon, co-founded Social Life in 2012 to develop research and community projects exploring how people are affected by changes in...
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May 11, 20223 min read
What will the Neighbours Think?
Following yesterday’s Queen’s Speech which introduced proposed changes to the current planning system, Tony Burton from CPRE London and...
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May 6, 20224 min read
How to Listen to Locals: the Sortition Foundation and the Cambridge Ideas Exchange
Tom Lord from the Sortition Foundation describes a project in Cambridge where local citizens are in the driving seat Meaningful citizen...
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Apr 27, 20224 min read
How Regeneration is attracting new participants to Local Politics
Ann Marie Sheehan, a resident of Mortlake & Barnes Common in SW London, explains how two major regeneration schemes are inspiring a new...
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Apr 20, 20223 min read
What is “Place-based impact investing” and does it benefit local communities?
Amidst the noise of Yimbys and Nimbys fighting it out on housing and wind farms, the government deciding on what levelling up means, and...
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Apr 5, 20223 min read
New thinking on planning London’s future
Just in time for the local elections next month, two community-led and deeply researched reports have been published offering new...
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Mar 30, 20222 min read
What does an ethical property developer look like?
Chris Brown, Executive Chair & Founder Igloo Regeneration Only 2% of people would trust a property developer to behave honestly according...
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Mar 21, 20223 min read
Time for a rethink on public loos
I recently spoke with a national broadsheet journalist about disinvestment in public toilets at a time when awareness and interest in...
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Feb 18, 20223 min read
Developers for Healthy Places: a collective of health-promoting property organisations
We are experiencing an unprecedented intersection of planning, development and public health in our government policy, local communities,...
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Feb 8, 20223 min read
Why aren’t proptech tools being tested on local citizens?
Last month the government’s Department of Levelling Up, Housing & Communities held an event in collaboration with Tech UK and the UK...
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Jan 27, 20224 min read
An open letter to the London Assembly Planning & Regeneration Committee
27 January 2022 Dear Planning and Regeneration Committee members, We are the 'Fight the Tower' Campaign, one of the many local community...
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Jan 18, 20224 min read
Property developers, ESG and accountability
Does a property developer’s ESG statement – more on this in a minute - matter to residents and businesses in local communities where they...
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Dec 17, 20213 min read
Reflections on 2021
Listen to Locals was established in March of this year initially to bring community engagement in planning on to the agenda for the...
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Dec 8, 20215 min read
A planning renaissance?
Clare Delmar, founder of Listen to Locals, spoke about her experience of planning with members of Planning Aid London at its AGM on...
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Nov 29, 20218 min read
Planning reforms – hearing the community voice
Tony Burton CBE 29 November 2021 The Government’s Planning White Paper tells us that the “Government has heard how the combination of...
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Nov 24, 20212 min read
Sustainable planning: conditions have never been better
Some of the most enduring and continually evolving challenges dominating our news feeds in recent weeks are national in scale and local...
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Nov 11, 20213 min read
When the Mayor becomes planning authority: bringing community voices to the table
The London Assembly Planning & Regeneration Committee held an open meeting earlier this week to hear from community groups on how they...
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Oct 29, 20212 min read
Informing your right to know about the environment where you live
Josh Artus Centric Lab The Centric team has launched a new digital tool, which is a postcode analysis of environmental pollutants and...
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Oct 20, 20213 min read
New approaches to promoting health in local communities
The growth in health inequalities across London and the country has focused many of us on how to improve accessibility to health services...
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