Themes

Culture

Showcase - best practice
Our website of case studies to inform and inspire. Showcase highlights projects that contribute to creating better communities. These examples give practical insight into developing sustainable communities. Visit Showcase at showcase.homesandcommunities.co.uk Before creating Showcase we researched which sources of best practice knowledge are already used by sustainable communities practitioners and how we can make this better. We're grateful to our stakeholders for their help with this research.
Lifetime Homes, Lifetime Neighbourhoods
25 Feb 2008 - A National Strategy for Housing in an Ageing Society The ageing of the population will be one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century for housing. This strategy sets out Communities and Local Government's response to this challenge, their plan to create Lifetime Homes in Lifetime Neighbourhoods . It outlines their plans for making sure that there is enough appropriate housing available in future to relieve the forecasted unsustainable pressures on homes, health and social care services.
Community Cohesion
Building cohesion is vital part of building sustainable communities Cohesion is fundamentally about the social element of what makes a community sustainable – the relationships between neighbours – but the degree of cohesion that exists in an area is usually the product of a mix of economic, social and environmental factors together. It is important to identify cohesion as a distinctive component of sustainability more widely, because that will make it easier:
Engaging Places
A project to make schools more aware of what can be achieved by engaging with local buildings, places and spaces. We are working with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), CABE and English Heritage to create a dynamic and strategic way forward to inspire schools. We aim to give schools clear routes and signposting to cultural and creative experiences and resources related to the built environment - and provide best practice models for embedding these experiences and resources within their school plans and curriculum.
Turning Points - A Yorkshire Expedition
Invitations to apply to join us on a 2-day creative journey are now open.
Places for All award category
Category finalists CATEGORY WINNER: Castle Quay Bedford, Bedford Borough Council & Complex Development Project
Stroud Communiversity
A three day event showcasing innovation in Stroud and building best practice around land and food Friday 15th May: Connecting with Place, People & Land through Walking & Art Saturday 16th May: Food for Life Sunday 17th May: Working for Ourselves, Working for Each Other More info:
How to Turn a Place Around - Effective Regeneration
Retail-led regeneration exhausted? How do you manage and deliver the change your town or city needs to turn it around? This one day workshop will take both a strategic and practical approach to revitalising underperforming centres, and look at all stages of the process from the initial proposal through managing and delivering real change.
Future Communities website
futurecommunities.net is all about community participation and place management, it's been created to help people who build communities. The site shows well presented, clear examples of projects that have created sustainable communities. Additionally the site provides background guidance for people to implement on their own development projects.
Talking Places: The Editors
This informal event will cover key issues facing culture and regeneration in 2009. This informal event will cover key issues facing culture and regeneration in 2009. The evening will also offer you the opportunity to interact and network with like-minded professionals from across the region. Julian Dobson, writer, speaker and commentator on regeneration and social policy issues, was the founding editor of New Start magazine, established in 1999 as the UK’s first weekly publication for people involved in community regeneration.
Engage....Regeneration, Young People & New Technology
Could New Technology be the key to engaging young people? Learn how to engage young people both in and outside of school. Beam is providing an opportunity for professionals involved in regeneration to come together and discuss this topic and have invited a number of experts to share their knowledge and experiences about using new technology Speakers & Topics include:
Sustainable communities modules: social & cultural
Inspire East and Anglia Ruskin University have developed a training programme to support professionals involved in planning, delivering and managing sustainable communities. Each module focuses on one segment of the sustainable communities wheel. This module focuses on Social & Cultural . Modules are available in the following subjects: Economy, Equity, Environment, Governance, Housing & the Built Environment, Services, Social & Cultural, Transport & Connectivity.
ASC joins Living Places
ASC has become the ninth member of a partnership driving the inclusion of culture and sport in communities. Living Places, an alliance of cultural bodies and government departments which launched in November 2007, announced ASC's membership at the LGA Sustainable Communities conference in Liverpool. ASC Chief Executive Gill Taylor said: " We are delighted to be involved with Living Places and look forward to working with other organisations to ensure culture plays a fundamental role in creating great places and developing a strong sense of community spirit. The LGA conference in Liverpool, the European Capital of Culture 2008, provided the ideal opportunity to announce our commitment to promoting the benefits of bringing culture and sport into every community. "

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