Social Value
Improving a neighbourhood isn’t just about increasing property value and ensuring jobs. Communities are often more concerned with the state of shared wealth and wellbeing in a place – its social value…
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Community Right to Bid (assets of community value)
Community ‘Right to Bid’ is one of the rights included in the Localism Act. It could play a key part in wider community planning of your neighbourhood…
Social Capital
More problems are solved in kitchens and backrooms than are sorted out in court rooms or council offices. The strength of local social capital – the links between us – plays a key part in our ability to sort probloems out for ourselves and our wellbeing.
Social Enterprise
Neighbourhood improvement can make commercial sense as well as generate social value – social enterprises aim to achieve both…
Commissioning
How local public services are delivered – and by whom – can make a big difference to neighbourhood quality of life. Increasingly, councils and other service providers are ‘commissioning’ services rather than providing them directly…
Community Asset Transfer
What if under-used land and buildings which belong to public bodies could be taken over by passionate community groups and development trusts and used to provide services to the community…
Development Trusts
Community assets can be managed to provide services and the money made re-invsted back into community activities. Development trusts are community-led organisations that are frequently set up to achieve this…
Community Assets
Community assets are the resources you have to make your neighbourhood a better place to live. They are more diverse than some people imagine. But… sometimes what look like assets might turn out to be liabilities? Working out what assets are in your neighbourhood and how they could be better used is a key part of community planning…
Neighbourhood Management
Neighbourhood planning is based on the idea that a place should be developed according to a shared vision. Neighbourhood management is based on the idea that a place should be managed in the same way…
Planning Law
Planning Law is based on the idea that owning land does not give you complete rights to decide what to do with it because the community (through the local council) has rights too…