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Aug 19, 20225 min read
The Regeneration of Earls Court
An interview with Rebekah Paczek, Director of Public Affairs and Community Relations, Earls Court Development Company A strange thing...
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Aug 17, 20226 min read
We need to rethink what makes a development viable
Two stories this week – and it’s only Wednesday - highlight the need to rethink and redefine how the financial viability of housing and...
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Jul 27, 20223 min read
How can local communities jump on to the ESG bandwagon?
While more and more companies commit to sustainable ESG – Environmental, Social & Governance – programmes and more corporate assets are...
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Jul 11, 20225 min read
Putting planning at the core of London’s future
An interview with Sakina Sheikh AM and Emma Best AM, chair and co-chair respectively of the London Assembly Planning & Regeneration...
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Jun 27, 20222 min read
Digital tools and community engagement – the experience of Delib Citizen Space
Our interest in how digital tools are helping developers and LPAs to listen to locals continues apace, and in this guest blog Dani Topaz...
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Jun 13, 20223 min read
Can Integrated Care Systems bring health & communities back into the planning process?
As of July 1st, the NHS will be managed through a series of Integrated Care Systems. The NHS describes these as “partnerships of...
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Jun 2, 20223 min read
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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