Last autumn, Oxford City Council commissioned Localis to explore the potential for stronger city governance and creative thinking to successfully address some of its myriad complex place policy challenges – including Covid-19 recovery response, inclusive growth both locally and linked to the Arc, transport connectivity and decarbonisation. As a coherent economic entity, Oxford possesses an […]
As visionary ideas go, the garden city movement as evangelised and then realised by Ebeneezer Howard, the founder of the Town and Country Planning Association, in Letchworth and Welwyn in Hertfordshire, remains among the more influential in our planning policy. Howard believed that out of a marriage of town and country would spring ‘a new […]
If the national challenge to get Britain back building is also acutely local, then to restore pre-crisis housebuilding levels – and the levels the country still needs – further action is required. Major developers will play a huge role in delivering these numbers over time, but for an immediate acceleration it is to the SME […]
Join us from 11.00 a.m. on the morning of Tuesday 17 November for the online launch of our latest report: “Renewing Neighbourhood Democracy – Creating Powerful Communities” How can we truly empower our communities? The promise of subsidiarity, or double devolution, as a mechanism for giving communities greater power and control over decision-making and resources, has […]
“Is there a place for community in planning for the future?” Localis Policy Webinar WEDNESDAY 28 OCTOBER FROM 11.00 A.M. TO 12.00 P.M. Announcing the Government’s long-awaited reform document ‘Planning for the Future, communities secretary Robert Jenrick pledged: “We want a society that has re-established powerful links between identity and place, between our unmatchable architectural […]
Planning for the Future – Policy Webinar Tuesday 20 October from 11.00 a.m. to 12.00 p.m. The Comprehensive Spending Review will be the first multi-year government funding settlement since 2015 and the ‘new radicals’ at the Treasury are seeking to improve funding decisions to get new homes, public assets and infrastructure built quicker. Can their […]
Thursday 6 August from 10.00 to 12.00 This webinar is about how to measure impact in the places where people live taking account of the COVID-19 pandemic and building their ownership of the process. It will explore the piloting of the approach set out in the “Brighten All Corners” report through the development of […]
Localis’s 2019 drinks reception will be held in the Reading Room of the British Academy on the evening of Wednesday 4 December from 6.00 p.m onward. 2019 has seen Localis build on the success of recent years. We began in January by looking at fair investment in sustainable growth in Smart Cities; and then investigating how better […]
Localis and Green Alliance’s project on Clean Local Growth is investigating what places can do, and what they need to be able to do, to unlock routes to clean growth in their area. Our report, aimed at local growth practitioners, policy makers and industry partners, will map and explain what good clean growth should look […]