Revive our Town Centres
A network to rethink and revitalise town centres and high streets
Revive our Town Centres is a forum to share information and take action to bring our high streets and town centres back to life.
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From 'me' towns to 'we' towns
Posted by Julian Dobson on November 21, 2012 at 12:58 0 Comments 0 Likes
Lou Reed famously sang that there was only one good use for a small town. When you grow up in a small town you 'grow down' - 'you hate it and you know you'll have to leave'.
But something interesting is happening in many of our small towns: something that many larger places, still in hock to cloned aspirations of economic development and an institutional inertia that appears to believe the development boom of the last decade will return, have yet to…
Is the Retail Lobby Trying to Hijack the Portas revolution?
Posted by Julian Dobson on July 7, 2012 at 16:04 0 Comments 0 Likes
Guest post by Martin Blackwell
Thursday 05 July 2012
originally posted on the ATCM website www.atcm.org
Since the not-for-profit ATCM was founded in the early 90s, we have worked with hundreds of locations around the UK, and overseas, to support people and communities in shaping environments to make town centres better, where local people feel a sense of ownership, and visitors are made welcome and business can thrive.…
Speakto offer helping hand to Portas pilot losers
Posted by Chloe Goddard on June 18, 2012 at 13:35 0 Comments 0 Likes
High street gurus SpeakTo are offering an hour’s free consultancy to town centres that have missed out on the £1.2 million pot of Government cash to rejuvenate their shopping areas.
The town centre consultancy has been inundated by enquiries from disappointed high streets in need of help.
From Holyhead to Herne Bay town centres have contacted SpeakTo expressing their frustration about losing out on the Portas pilot money, wanting help now to capitalise on the work already…
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Back on the Scottish High Street
Posted by Edward Harkins on June 5, 2012 at 9:49 0 Comments 0 Likes
I think that some members here, especially from Scotland, will be interesetd in a lively, but informed, discussion I have instigated on High Streets in the RTPI Scotland Linkedin discussion group (You do not have to ne an RTPI member to join that group). It follows the publication last week of a 'Vulnerability Index' that is an attempt to measure vulnarability and lay out the town centres across Scotland that are most at risk of literally dying in the face of the recession. The aspects of…
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Great stuff from Cllr Simon Cooke
On why retail isn't the future of town centres:
We really do need to rethink town centres - to consider how they entertain us, how they provide space for formal and informal events, for celebration and for fun. Yet everywhere - and my city of Bradford is no different - local councils, planners and developers are attached limpet-like to big retail developments as some sort of salvation for struggling centres. When will it dawn on them that they're wrong?
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