Informed by new research commissioned for the APPG, what particular local ‘liveability’ issues do residents in ‘left behind’ neighbourhoods experience? What can be done to help improve how local areas look and feel, and how can communities be better supported and resourced to take action to make their neighbourhoods safer, cleaner and greener?
Our speakers
- Allison Ogden-Newton OBE, Chief Executive, Keep Britain Tidy
Watch Allison’s presentation to the APPG - Toby Lloyd, Chair, No Place Left Behind Commission
Watch Toby’s presentation to the APPG - Stephen Perez, Coordinator, Arches Local
Watch Stephen’s presentation to the APPG
Briefing
Session 9 liveability briefing
This briefing provides an overview of local liveability issues in ‘left behind’ neighbourhoods. Informed by the latest OCSI data dive commissioned for the APPG, it reveals that these neighbourhoods have a lower concentration of green assets and recreational green space than other deprived areas and across urban England. It examines current policy and approaches to improve how areas look and feel, and how communities can be better supported to develop local solutions to quality of life issues.
Commissioned research
- Liveability data dive for the All-Party Parliamentary Group for ‘left behind’ neighbourhoods
OCSI’s ‘data dive’ research report uses socio-economic data to provide an understanding of the living environment in ‘left behind’ areas. - What do ‘left behind’ areas look like over time?
This briefing, produced by the Geographic Data Science Lab at the University of Liverpool, uses satellite-derived data to explore and visualise how ‘left behind’ areas have changed over time.
Context
Liveability and place quality
- No place left behind: The commission into prosperity and community placemaking. Create Streets Foundation (2021). This report brings together case studies, evidence and policy analysis around improving the physical, social, and environmental quality of ‘left behind’ places across England. It stresses the importance of social infrastructure, community ownership, and place quality.
- Improving access to greenspace: A new review for 2020. Public Health England (2020). This review documents the positive health, social, environmental, and economic evidence for access to green space, with a focus on the uneven distribution of good quality green spaces across England.
- Making parks count: The case for parks. The Parks Alliance (2020). This paper sets out to establish the value and benefits of parks for communities.
- Place value: Place quality and its impact on health, social, economic and environmental outcomes. Journal of Urban Design (Vol. 24, Issue 1, 2019). This article by Matthew Carmona, Professor of Planning and Urban Design at UCL, explores the link between quality of places and health, social, economic and environmental outcomes.
Communities and regeneration
- Turnaround: How to regenerate Britain’s less prosperous communities by helping them take back control. Onward (2021). This report examines previous regeneration initiatives in the United Kingdom and internationally to establish key lessons and best practice.
- Why civil society is essential to levelling up. Pro Bono Economics (2021). This report recommends empowering local neighbourhoods and civil society to drive forward the levelling up agenda and regenerate pride in place.
- North Shields forty years on: Policy and change after the Community Development Project. Durham University (2016). This paper traces the history of regeneration in the North Shields/North Tyneside area following the Community Development Project – a British anti-poverty initiative during the 1970s.
Policy context
- Impacts of Neighbourhood Planning in England. University of Reading for MCHLG (2020). This research combines insights from surveyed Local Authorities, consultants, members of the development industry and communities to measure the impacts of Neighbourhood Planning in England, introduced under the Localism Act of 2011.
- Local Nature Recovery Strategy pilots: Lessons learned. DEFRA (2021). This research provides an overview of key lessons and findings from the LNRS pilots undertaken between August 2020 and May 2021.
- 20-minute neighbourhoods: Creating healthier, active, prosperous communities. Town and Country Planning Association (2021). This report reiterates the importance of the local environment for health and wellbeing outcomes, and makes the case for how 20-minute neighbourhoods can promote positive change in communities.