Several discussions during last week’s Restitch Summit centred on the “ecosystem” of community regeneration, exploring those systems and...

Nicola Bacon, co-founded Social Life in 2012 to develop research and community projects exploring how people are affected by changes in...

Following yesterday’s Queen’s Speech which introduced proposed changes to the current planning system, Tony Burton from CPRE London and...

Tom Lord from the Sortition Foundation describes a project in Cambridge where local citizens are in the driving seat Meaningful citizen...

Ann Marie Sheehan, a resident of Mortlake & Barnes Common in SW London, explains how two major regeneration schemes are inspiring a new...

Amidst the noise of Yimbys and Nimbys fighting it out on housing and wind farms, the government deciding on what levelling up means, and...

Just in time for the local elections next month, two community-led and deeply researched reports have been published offering new...

Chris Brown, Executive Chair & Founder Igloo Regeneration Only 2% of people would trust a property developer to behave honestly according...

I recently spoke with a national broadsheet journalist about disinvestment in public toilets at a time when awareness and interest in...

We are experiencing an unprecedented intersection of planning, development and public health in our government policy, local communities,...

Last month the government’s Department of Levelling Up, Housing & Communities held an event in collaboration with Tech UK and the UK...

27 January 2022 Dear Planning and Regeneration Committee members, We are the 'Fight the Tower' Campaign, one of the many local community...

Does a property developer’s ESG statement – more on this in a minute - matter to residents and businesses in local communities where they...

Listen to Locals was established in March of this year initially to bring community engagement in planning on to the agenda for the...

Clare Delmar, founder of Listen to Locals, spoke about her experience of planning with members of Planning Aid London at its AGM on...

Tony Burton CBE 29 November 2021 The Government’s Planning White Paper tells us that the “Government has heard how the combination of...

Some of the most enduring and continually evolving challenges dominating our news feeds in recent weeks are national in scale and local...

The London Assembly Planning & Regeneration Committee held an open meeting earlier this week to hear from community groups on how they...

The growth in health inequalities across London and the country has focused many of us on how to improve accessibility to health services...