Reports Sevenoaks Town Council gets a share of £1m for award-winning bus service Kent’s Sevenoaks Town Council has received more funding to support its acclaimed No.8 bus service.
Reports New charter will put places and community at heart of Welsh planning The Placemaking Wales Charter putting quality, sustainability and community at the heart of planning has been launched
Reports New funding secured for historic high streets recovery 68 historic high streets across England have been offered government funding to give them a new lease of life and help them recover from declining footfall and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Reports Interactive roadmap helps towns to realise goals A new consortium to work with towns, both large and small, bringing a multi-disciplinary approach to re-purposing towns from the beginning of the journey through to the execution of a successful plan
Reports 'Massive change' to planning framework: will localism survive the push for new housing? The government has revealed its plans for a major upheaval to the planning system involving land being designated into one of three categories - for growth, renewal or protection
Events Civic Revival Launch Event View Civic Revival's official online launch event here - with founders and directors Peter Stonham and Richard Walker giving an introduction to the project
Reports Business and Planning Act 2020: impacts on places and pavements With the new Business and Planning Act, local planning authorities, all of a sudden, have gained some and lost other, control over how activities are managed in response to the Coronavirus
Reports 'Community charter’ bid to restore faith in developers and planning process Property company Grosvenor has launched ‘Positive Space’, a community charter seeking to set a new standard of public engagement and collaborative activity in the way that places are created and managed
Reports Design Quality Unit urged to deliver better urban development A Design Quality Unit must be established if the government is to succeed in its stated ambition to deliver good urban development, a coalition of design organisations has urged.
Tradition Local democracy and civic values: a brief history Peter Stonham explores the important tradition of individual and collective thinking about the most productive ways for citizens to be involved in shaping their localities
Reports Conservation areas under threat, says Civic Voice The value of conservation areas and their benefits is clear, but their future is not, the civic society organisation Civic Voice has warned
Kindred Spirits - Local Heroes Aviation heritage campaigner Guy Thomas talks about his projects in Hertfordshire In the first of our profiles of individuals pursuing a civic cause in their area, we asked Guy Thomas about his passion for aviation heritage in Hertfordshire
Places Goathland Village Hall Trust goes Tech Goathland Village Hall, a key community facility for the North Yorks Moors village, has just benefited from a digital tech upgrade to its facilities
Reports 'Keep planning local' call to government from big group of major organisations A significant group of representative bodies involved with local government and community activities have sent an open letter to the government warning about changes to the planning system
Thinking We can blame the virus – but ought we to blame ourselves for the problems we face? What can we learn from the dramatic impact that the Coronavirus pandemic has had on the world, and its message in terms of human activity, in particular at the local
