Comparing town centre policy and practice: 3 – Scotland
AMT’s chief executive Chris Wade is writing about similarities and differences between town centre policy and practice in England, Scotland and Wales. Here he covers Scotland’s Towns Conference. Over...
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Comparing town centre policy and practice: 2 – Wales
AMT’s chief executive Chris Wade is writing about similarities and differences between town centre policy and practice in England, Scotland and Wales. Here he covers the Welsh Regeneration Summit. The...
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Comparing town centre policy and practice: 1 – England
AMT’s chief executive Chris Wade is writing about similarities and differences between town centre policy and practice in England, Scotland and Wales. Here he covers three recent events attended by...
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Common strands and inspirational differences
Comparing town centre policy and practice in England, Scotland and Wales 20.11.2012 Over the last month, I have been lucky to attend four inspirational events looking at the future of town centres in...
View ArticleNew funding to revive rural communities
21.11.2012 New funding to help communities take control through enterprise Rural communities across the UK are set to benefit from a new injection of funding to help them revive their villages through...
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Case Study of the Week: Wilmslow Artisan Market
This Thursday the Town Team Initiative Workshop in Leek, Staffordshire will learn how to improve their local market by hearing from the people behind The Artisan Market in Wilmslow. So we thought it a...
View ArticleTownFunder – alternative, attainable funding event
Alternative, Attainable Funding for Town Improvement Projects 5th March 2013, Birmingham ‘Top down’, large Government funding programmes for town and neighbourhood improvement schemes are in short...
View ArticleRural fire and rescue services threatened by cuts
26.11.2012 Press on public funding threatens to put rural communities at risk when it comes to fire and rescue services, warns the annual State of Rural Public Services report, published by the Rural...
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Pickles praises Parishes (but pushes on precepts)
30.12.2012 On Wednesday Communities Secretary Eric Pickles addressed the National Association of Local Councils (NALC) Larger Councils’ conference in London. In his speech Pickles referred to the...
View ArticleNorthern prosperity is national prosperity – new report published
02.12.2012 IPPR North’s Northern Economic Futures Commission has published its final report which sets out “a new economic agenda for the north of England, one which seeks to place the region at the...
View ArticleTown centres are sexy again
02.12.2012 So says Gemma Collins, Project Manager at the Centre for Hyperlocal Media, University of Wales, Newport in this piece written for Wales Business. Gemma covers Townstock, Totally Locally,...
View ArticleBusiness rates freeze “backed by two thirds of MPs”
3.12.2012 A report for the British Retail Consortium (BRC) published today shows a business rates freeze next year is backed by two thirds of MPs polled, with more than one in five agreeing ‘strongly’....
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Government accused of “sacrificing Britain’s high street”
03.12.2012 A group of landlords of town centre shopping schemes have written an open letter to Eric Pickles, the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, stating that “out-of-control,...
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Opportunity: Love Your Local Market Manager
03.12.2012 – job / consultancy opportunity on behalf of Love Your Local Market: Nabma will be leading the campaign to promote LYLM in 2013. We want to make it bigger and better and get 500 markets...
View ArticleWhat have the Portas Pilots done so far?
03.12.2012 It’s six months since the first Portas Pilot town teams were announced. In a piece for New Start, Clare Cummings, a research consultant at the Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES)...
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Bookshop hopes to relaunch as community enterprise thanks to share issue
03.12.2012 A 30-year old bookshop in Devon, at risk of closure when its owner decided to retire, hopes to relaunch into community ownership thanks to support from the Co-operative Enterprise Hub and a...
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Case Study of the Week: Holyhead Town Centre Empty Shops Initiative
As AMT launches its Town Centre First WATCH campaign, our case study of the week looks at Holyhead’s town centre, which in 2009 had the highest vacancy rate of any town in the UK – with 39% of...
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Community-owned baker ready for television bunfight
03.12.2012 The Bakery in Dunbar – an artisan bakery which opened in 2011 – successfully raised nearly £50,000 from a community share issue to finance the business. Now the business which is owned by...
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Rating system and retailing on “collision path”
04.12.2012 The rating system and retailing seem to be on something of a collision path at the moment, with no one really liking what is going on, writes Professor Leigh Sparks in this guest blog. The...
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Learning from a neighbourhood planning frontrunner
04.12.2012 – A strategy blog post by AMT’s policy manager, Alison Eardley There are many neighbourhood plans now in progress, and plenty of interest from other towns or ‘neighbourhoods’. Locality’s...
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