This document summarizes a conference on overcoming barriers in London held on June 21, 2018. It includes the agenda, speaker bios, and presentations on various topics related to mobility, placemaking, and community engagement. Speakers discussed research on how the design of neighborhoods can impact health and activity as people age, as well as case studies of placemaking projects in Thamesmead and strategies for making coworking spaces more accessible. The document also summarizes breakout group discussions on barriers faced by residents and community organizations and potential community-driven solutions.
İn the scope of Urban projects at Erciyes University,Faculty of Architecture,Department of City and Regional planning,i benefited remarkably from Charles Montgomery Concept of HAPPY CİTY.
The concept has helped me plan for Alaçam Municipality(A Samsun district,a Black sea region in Turkey) 2019-2040 General land use plan(Urban project 311,1:5000 scale) and its İmplementation plan (411 urban project,1:1000 scale).
Briefing Breakfast: Retirement living considerations for the modern ageILC- UK
Living longer and more actively, the retiree cohort is changing. This growing demographic have higher service, lifestyle and leisure expectations. As a result, the residential property sector must adapt their service proposition.
SPEAKERS
Dr Brian Beach – Senior Research Fellow, ILC
John O'Brien – Associate Director, Construction Innovation, BRE Group
Samantha Gibson – Director, FirstPort Retirement Property Services
İn the scope of Urban projects at Erciyes University,Faculty of Architecture,Department of City and Regional planning,i benefited remarkably from Charles Montgomery Concept of HAPPY CİTY.
The concept has helped me plan for Alaçam Municipality(A Samsun district,a Black sea region in Turkey) 2019-2040 General land use plan(Urban project 311,1:5000 scale) and its İmplementation plan (411 urban project,1:1000 scale).
Briefing Breakfast: Retirement living considerations for the modern ageILC- UK
Living longer and more actively, the retiree cohort is changing. This growing demographic have higher service, lifestyle and leisure expectations. As a result, the residential property sector must adapt their service proposition.
SPEAKERS
Dr Brian Beach – Senior Research Fellow, ILC
John O'Brien – Associate Director, Construction Innovation, BRE Group
Samantha Gibson – Director, FirstPort Retirement Property Services
Flickr Commons: Open licensing and the future for collectionsPaula Bray
How can we learn from the Commons project on Flickr and use it as a benchmark to develop policy for allowing our collections to be used under open access? How do we measure the success, maintain our new community, progress with better access to our collections and develop new business models?
The Delivering Environmental Benefits for Urban Communities Conference included a ‘show and tell’ symposium designed to meet the objectives of the Urban CaBA Sub-Group: 1) champion the Catchment Partnership approach to water management in urban areas; 2) support CaBA partnerships nationwide by helping them to build capacity, expertise and engage more effectively with stakeholders, communities, developers, funders and businesses, and 3) promote the benefits and raise awareness of partnership working in the urban environment. During this session practitioners, strategic planners and academics were given 5 minute slots to introduce their work/expertise and to signpost people to their resources or further information. These 'pitches' were divided into: 1) practical delivery of interventions; 2) strategic tools/approaches (incl. CBA, targeting, design/optioneering); 3) help and guidance for urban practitioners, and 4) engagement, communications and partnership working. Speakers will be invited to say what they have done, what their objectives were and what the outcome of the work was/is intended to be.
The final presentation of the Reimagine Dublin One process. From March 9-13, 2017 an American and Irish team of professionals worked with the Dublin One community to develop a series of regeneration strategies for the neighborhood.
These slides contain important information about the Wolfson Economics Prize 2014, including deadlines and contact information, as well as an agenda for the event itself.
These slides are a summary of the conversations our participants had at our conversation cafe event on Sat 13 Sept at Anglia Ruskin University. With thanks to all of our supporters at http://bethechangecambridge.org.uk/?page_id=85 who helped us put on the event, and for everyone (over 50 of you) who took part!
A report on how to improve people's quality of life on new housing developments, with 8 practical recommendations for councils, developers and community organisations.
Future of London 2018 Conference (morning keynote & panels)futureoflondon
Presentations from Future of London's 2018 Conference, Overcoming London's Barriers. Includes presentations by:
Lynne Miles, Arup
Lyn Garner, LLDC
Heather Cheesbrough, LB Croydon
Stuart Kirkwood, Network Rail
Tricia Patel, Pollard Thomas Edwards
Alex Jeremy, Poplar HARCA
Ben Coles, Groundwork London
Society that is shaped by, and dependent on networked systems
These are everywhere and part of all aspects of life
Though often hidden from view, repressed even
This explains that some of their social and environmental impacts are not always obvious to us
Thus, what we have done here in the course is trying to open our eyes to these systems
Places for intergenerational encounters and connectionsAlison Clyde
We will look at what makes for good intergenerational spaces and places. We shall briefly explore some inspiring examples from our recent study trip to the Netherlands and Denmark in February 2020 and also how places and projects are developing in Dumfries & Galloway that are all about intergenerational connections. We will also share how we developed a brief for architects that involved community members of all ages as active partners in designing new spaces and in the repurposing of old ones.
Flickr Commons: Open licensing and the future for collectionsPaula Bray
How can we learn from the Commons project on Flickr and use it as a benchmark to develop policy for allowing our collections to be used under open access? How do we measure the success, maintain our new community, progress with better access to our collections and develop new business models?
The Delivering Environmental Benefits for Urban Communities Conference included a ‘show and tell’ symposium designed to meet the objectives of the Urban CaBA Sub-Group: 1) champion the Catchment Partnership approach to water management in urban areas; 2) support CaBA partnerships nationwide by helping them to build capacity, expertise and engage more effectively with stakeholders, communities, developers, funders and businesses, and 3) promote the benefits and raise awareness of partnership working in the urban environment. During this session practitioners, strategic planners and academics were given 5 minute slots to introduce their work/expertise and to signpost people to their resources or further information. These 'pitches' were divided into: 1) practical delivery of interventions; 2) strategic tools/approaches (incl. CBA, targeting, design/optioneering); 3) help and guidance for urban practitioners, and 4) engagement, communications and partnership working. Speakers will be invited to say what they have done, what their objectives were and what the outcome of the work was/is intended to be.
The final presentation of the Reimagine Dublin One process. From March 9-13, 2017 an American and Irish team of professionals worked with the Dublin One community to develop a series of regeneration strategies for the neighborhood.
These slides contain important information about the Wolfson Economics Prize 2014, including deadlines and contact information, as well as an agenda for the event itself.
These slides are a summary of the conversations our participants had at our conversation cafe event on Sat 13 Sept at Anglia Ruskin University. With thanks to all of our supporters at http://bethechangecambridge.org.uk/?page_id=85 who helped us put on the event, and for everyone (over 50 of you) who took part!
A report on how to improve people's quality of life on new housing developments, with 8 practical recommendations for councils, developers and community organisations.
Future of London 2018 Conference (morning keynote & panels)futureoflondon
Presentations from Future of London's 2018 Conference, Overcoming London's Barriers. Includes presentations by:
Lynne Miles, Arup
Lyn Garner, LLDC
Heather Cheesbrough, LB Croydon
Stuart Kirkwood, Network Rail
Tricia Patel, Pollard Thomas Edwards
Alex Jeremy, Poplar HARCA
Ben Coles, Groundwork London
Society that is shaped by, and dependent on networked systems
These are everywhere and part of all aspects of life
Though often hidden from view, repressed even
This explains that some of their social and environmental impacts are not always obvious to us
Thus, what we have done here in the course is trying to open our eyes to these systems
Places for intergenerational encounters and connectionsAlison Clyde
We will look at what makes for good intergenerational spaces and places. We shall briefly explore some inspiring examples from our recent study trip to the Netherlands and Denmark in February 2020 and also how places and projects are developing in Dumfries & Galloway that are all about intergenerational connections. We will also share how we developed a brief for architects that involved community members of all ages as active partners in designing new spaces and in the repurposing of old ones.
Keen to start working in a more user-centric way but not sure where to start?
As part of Service Design Fringe Festival in London, we hosted an evening understanding a range of different techniques for designing user-centred services and engaging citizens in the design process. We explored projects including Good Finance, Cyclehack and our collaborative work with Democratic Society looking at the future of government online consultations.
Project for Public Spaces - Streets as Placesmetroplanning
Fred Kent of Project for Public Spaces (pps.org) made this presentation on streets as places in Chicago on March 15, 2007. Contact PPS to invite him to speak in your city.
Culture Change: Behaviour change and audience engagementJulie's Bicycle
Top tips on how to engage your staff with sustainability and keep them motivated, and communicate your environmental commitments and initiatives to audiences.
The creative industries are experiencing a shift towards putting the environment at the heart of how we work, and it’s being driven by people power. This two-hour session will look at strategies for engaging key stakeholders with your environmental commitments and actions, from staff to audiences, to amplify the impact of your green initiatives.
Do you have an environmental policy that you’re struggling to implement? Are you scratching your head about how to bring down your audience travel emissions? Or perhaps you've never thought about how environmental sustainability might be relevant to your stakeholders at all? Then this webinar is for you!
The webinar will be relevant for practitioners and businesses across the creative industries, and will be facilitated by consultants from Julie's Bicycle.
The Next Big Thing Urbanism Workshop was an initiative to take previous design and community development efforts of Glass House Collective to the next level.
During a two-day intensive design workshop, over 100 workshop participants proposed ways to improve Glass Street while maintaining a realistic attitude about both big and small moves that, collectively, could begin to enhance the prospects for the neighborhood and its citizens.
Teams were asked to consider how improved urbanism could have a positive impact on various aspects of the neighborhood, including business viability, quality public spaces, access to services, improved housing options, increased public safety, and opportunities for the community to engage and contribute.
Designs needed to leverage the variety of assets that already exist in the community including physical places, existing businesses, individuals, organizations, previous accomplishments, and sections of the built environment.
What resulted were dozens of creative, realistic, and scalable urban revitalization tactics for improving residential, commercial, and public space within a 5 minute walk radius surrounding historic Glass Street, each contributing to the revitalization effort already underway. Designs specifically addressed implementation within 1 month, 1 year, 3 year time frames, prioritizing lighter, quicker, and cheaper techniques.
While not all the proposals generated will be implemented as designed, they will be the basis of successive small neighborhood workshops to explore specific concepts, projects, and implementation tactics reflecting the residential, commercial, and public space needs of the Glass Street community. Glass House Collective will work with the neighborhood to adapt designs, ultimately using a bunch of little things to create the next big thing on the street.
Using the lenses that Glass House Collective sees their work through, the Outcomes of The Next Big Thing Urbanism Workshop have been organized into three categories:
• Here Because We Love It Here, proposals focused on Creative Placemaking
• Bringing Life Back to Glass Street, proposals focused on Feet on the Streets
• The Next Big Thing, proposals focused on New Partnerships
Not all proposals developed during the workshop are included in this document; however, those that most closely meet the mission of Glass House Collective have been compiled and described in the pages that follow. The appendix lists all project proposals from each team.
Slides from Session 2 and 3 of the recent ABCD Guide training in Hudderfield, hosted by Kirklees Council. Session 2 was facilitated by Shaun Burnett and Session 3 by Cormac Russell.
10Apr14 - Ensuring communities offer what older people wantILC- UK
This seminar was held on Thursday 10th April 2014, 13:30 (for 14:00) – 17:00 on the topic is ‘Ensuring communities offer what older people want’, and focussed on the activities and interests of older people that need to be represented in our communities to ensure good quality of life and wellbeing for an ageing population. The results of these seminars will inform a solutions-focussed policy brief, looking at what needs to be done to create age-ready local areas. This brief will be launched in May at a full day conference on ageing in our communities.
In this seminar we considered what communities provide for older people and how these needs may change (or stay the same) as they age. We know from research on isolation and loneliness that social connections remain an important part of quality of life for many people as they get older, yet as the ‘loneliness epidemic’ continues to hit headlines it is clear that this is not being fully addressed in communities. Exploring how activities and services can maintain and build on social networks is key to maintaining wellbeing within the community.
Elsewhere, we explored the services, amenities and activities available to older people in their communities – from village shops, to post offices, to libraries and adult education classes, and how these enhance wellbeing for older people. A community can take many forms, and in this session we will also be considering the approaches to be taken from different kinds of setting – from urban to rural – and the challenges that lie in providing services to these distinct regions.
This seminar explored:
• How family connections, friendships and social ties can be supported and better integrated into community activities.
• What role do local services and shops play in building a community, what the future of these services looks like and what can be done to ensure they support ageing in the community?
• What activities are currently available for older people in their communities, and are these suitable or prepared for an increasing number of people accessing them? What else should be available?
• How we can ensure that fun and playfulness remain part of life when growing older in the community?
• How can we ensure that the experience of growing older remains at its highest quality across rural, town, suburban, and urban settings?
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Community Led Housing (CLH) as part of larger schemesfutureoflondon
On 23 July, Stephen Hill, adviser to London CLT on its St Clement’s Hospital Project, shared lessons for groups seeking to develop community-led homes as a component of larger developments.
Future of London 2018 Conference (Proposals for Poplar)futureoflondon
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Harriet Baldwin
Callum Gray
Lynsey Hogarth
Jack Hodkinson
TIffany Cheung
Thomas Foster
Marina Mylonadis
George Gill
Future of London 2018 Conference (afternoon breakouts main room)futureoflondon
Presentations from Future of London's 2018 Conference, Overcoming London's Barriers. Includes presentations by:
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Ed Parham, Space Syntax
Jawad Sardar, SUM Global
Paul Goulden, Age UK London
Oliver Davey, Urban Movement
Yvonne Doyle, Public Health England
Future of London 2018 Conference (mid-morning panels & Proposals for London)futureoflondon
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Jeannette Veldkamp, Chapman Taylor
Martina Juvara, Urban Silence
Matthew Dibben, LB Brent
Theresa Dugbatey, LB Hackney
Charles Glover-Short, Optivo
Ellen Storrar, GLA
Claire Perrott, Tibbalds
Russian anarchist and anti-war movement in the third year of full-scale warAntti Rautiainen
Anarchist group ANA Regensburg hosted my online-presentation on 16th of May 2024, in which I discussed tactics of anti-war activism in Russia, and reasons why the anti-war movement has not been able to make an impact to change the course of events yet. Cases of anarchists repressed for anti-war activities are presented, as well as strategies of support for political prisoners, and modest successes in supporting their struggles.
Thumbnail picture is by MediaZona, you may read their report on anti-war arson attacks in Russia here: https://en.zona.media/article/2022/10/13/burn-map
Links:
Autonomous Action
http://Avtonom.org
Anarchist Black Cross Moscow
http://Avtonom.org/abc
Solidarity Zone
https://t.me/solidarity_zone
Memorial
https://memopzk.org/, https://t.me/pzk_memorial
OVD-Info
https://en.ovdinfo.org/antiwar-ovd-info-guide
RosUznik
https://rosuznik.org/
Uznik Online
http://uznikonline.tilda.ws/
Russian Reader
https://therussianreader.com/
ABC Irkutsk
https://abc38.noblogs.org/
Send mail to prisoners from abroad:
http://Prisonmail.online
YouTube: https://youtu.be/c5nSOdU48O8
Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/libertarianlifecoach/episodes/Russian-anarchist-and-anti-war-movement-in-the-third-year-of-full-scale-war-e2k8ai4
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
A process server is a authorized person for delivering legal documents, such as summons, complaints, subpoenas, and other court papers, to peoples involved in legal proceedings.
Presentation by Jared Jageler, David Adler, Noelia Duchovny, and Evan Herrnstadt, analysts in CBO’s Microeconomic Studies and Health Analysis Divisions, at the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Summer Conference.
Canadian Immigration Tracker March 2024 - Key SlidesAndrew Griffith
Highlights
Permanent Residents decrease along with percentage of TR2PR decline to 52 percent of all Permanent Residents.
March asylum claim data not issued as of May 27 (unusually late). Irregular arrivals remain very small.
Study permit applications experiencing sharp decrease as a result of announced caps over 50 percent compared to February.
Citizenship numbers remain stable.
Slide 3 has the overall numbers and change.
This session provides a comprehensive overview of the latest updates to the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (commonly known as the Uniform Guidance) outlined in the 2 CFR 200.
With a focus on the 2024 revisions issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), participants will gain insight into the key changes affecting federal grant recipients. The session will delve into critical regulatory updates, providing attendees with the knowledge and tools necessary to navigate and comply with the evolving landscape of federal grant management.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the rationale behind the 2024 updates to the Uniform Guidance outlined in 2 CFR 200, and their implications for federal grant recipients.
- Identify the key changes and revisions introduced by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the 2024 edition of 2 CFR 200.
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- Develop strategies for effectively implementing the new guidelines within the grant management processes of their respective organizations, fostering efficiency and accountability in federal grant administration.
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Donate Us
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What is the point of small housing associations.pptxPaul Smith
Given the small scale of housing associations and their relative high cost per home what is the point of them and how do we justify their continued existance
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Future of London 2018 Conference (afternoon breakouts side room)
1. Overcoming London’s Barriers
Conference
Thursday, 21 June 2018
#mendbarriers
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4. Mobility, Mood and Place
How can the design of our neighbourhoods make a difference
to keeping healthy and active into older age?
Sara Tilley
OPENspace research centre, University of Edinburgh
Mobility, Mood and Place is funded by Lifelong Health and Wellbeing, a cross-council
initiative addressing the challenges and opportunities of an ageing population.
5. A 3-year interdisciplinary project which builds on evidence that
how we experience environments influences our mood and, in
turn, our willingness to be active.
6. Real-time emotional responses to place during short urban walks:
1. Measuring EEG outputs
2. Ethnographic study - walking interviews
3. Mixed methods – video elicitation interviews
Environment and affect: measuring mood
8. Colourful nature and wildlife
There's a lifting of the spirit when you see that sort of
combination of colours, it's almost like a Monet painting
as far as I'm concerned.
9. Memories and familiarity
There's a few new places, new building schemes that have went up. Generally you can
find a landmark, like Craiglockhart, you can find the canal and that's a landmark. So you
know where you are from that […] And then certain pubs or certain buildings registered
like the Slaughterhouse around the corner […]. And you see a plaque on…maybe it's
closed and moved on, but they put a plaque up to say this is the original site of such and
such, and […] you think right okay, I know where I am now.
10. Social contact and interaction
I walk far less these
days than I used to
anyway. It’s three
years since my
husband died, so I’m
three years older than
I was then. And
actually we walked
less since he wasn’t
well anyway. Nobody
else that I know seems
to like to just walk.
11. • Walking interviews help understand the qualities of
places that promote mobility.
• Memory and familiarity, wildlife and social contact
are important in mobility decisions and behaviours.
• Mobility might be supported by keeping
neighbourhoods familiar.
• It is important to ensure that the walking
environment encourages people to go outside in
both earlier and later life stages.
Ethnographic summary
12. Participatory design workshops – students
collaborated with older adults - drawing,
model-making, participatory mapping,
photovoice, accompanied walks; virtual
street audits; interviews & focus groups
Co-created Environments
13. 4 Key Qualities of Place
Image by Knight, Sharpe & Phillips
Access for all
Access to nature
Access to light
Access to others
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• Highly accessible connectionsdo not
exploit their spatial potential for
integrating different modesof
transport and have a vehicleoriented
public realm design.
• Ridgeway and Eastern/Western Way
are segregated from the surrounding
network.
• Overall lack of a welldistributed
networkof localroutes.
• Blocks sizes,land use and frontages
do not follow the spatial route
hierarchy.
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constitutedor activated.
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the highlyaccessible Central Way.
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spaces network, hiddenfrom the
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• Create a legible, well-connected
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pedestrians.
• Thisshouldaccommodate large-and
small-scalejourneys by different
modes,balancing the requirements
of pedestrians,cyclists andvehicular
trafficas opposed to segregating
them.
• Landuses should follow the route
hierarchyand should be distributed
in relationto the level ofprominence
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• Public realm should be addressed by
active frontages and animated with
building entrances.
• Create multipleand direct
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• Create a well-connected green spaces
and waterways network,
fronted/activated at strategicpoints.
29. Juliet Can | @CanTalks
Director, Stour Space
#mendbarriers
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34. WHAT MAKES WORKSPACE INACCESSIBLE FOR BME GROUPS
• Psychological barriers:
- Is this a place for me?
- Do I belong?
• Lack of information
• High demand for workspace
• Lack of ambassadors
35.
36. • Design
• Diverse team
• Promote BME led businesses
• Increase networks
• Partner with community groups
and educational institutions
55. Barriers for residents
• Social housing tenants are used to organisations doing things
to, rather than for, them (deep distrust of decision makers)
• As social housing organisations become larger and more
centralised, it is less likely they will have people on the ground
that residents trust
56. Barriers for residents
• If there isn’t trust at the start of the development, it is unlikely that
it will develop during the process
• If landlords are struggling to manage their existing housing well and
to involve residents, why should they build more?
• With little or no subsidy it is difficult to offer tenants and
leaseholders a fair deal to compensate them for the disruption to
their lives
• The complexity of improving estates that have a mixture of tenants
and leaseholders (some non-resident), with different financial
interests
57. Barriers for residents
• In the past development was targeted at estates that were
difficult to live on, now residents are being asked to give up
their homes for a ‘greater good’- i.e. Cressingham Gardens and
Central Hill
• Even if co-production is genuine, there is the inherent problem
of one group of people being paid very well and the other not
at all
58. Barriers for community organisations
• Route for funding: Community groups are locked out of DCLG
& GLA funding, as not RPs. What will the Housing Community
Fund bring?
• Development is a long and uncertain process - how do you
maintain the energy?
• Access to development expertise
• Community organisations/small HAs are just one problematic
project from ruin, whereas larger HAs can ride this out
59. Community-driven solutions
• Acknowledge all of the above issues for residents
• If it is an infill development, have a plan to
integrate it into the surrounding estate
60. Community-driven solutions
• Ensure tangible benefits: match overcrowded & under-
occupying residents, car parking, storage, improved green
space
• Genuinely consult, and accept that the consultations will take
you in directions you hadn’t anticipated
• Target development funding towards organisations that
genuinely engage with their residents
• Accept that some schemes will not be palatable until the
subsidy arrangements change
61. Community-driven solutions
• Play to our strengths. Large organisations can provide funding
and development expertise; Community organisations can
provide genuine resident engagement. The Southwark/JMB
partnership is an excellent example.
• Southwark wants to build 11,000 homes and the CBS can
unlock sites not available to the council
62. Southwark/ JMB partnership
• JMB is a TMO managing 1,500 homes
• CBS is a sister organisation formed to build new homes
• Funding is patched together from:
- Southwark (capital receipts/s106)
- DCLG (Estates Regeneration Fund/ Community Housing Fund)
- GLA (Community Right to Build)
- JMB loan
63. This is what can be achieved:
• 27 homes for council tenants at council rents
76. Jon Woolfson | @grangebl
Community Partnership Manager, Grange Big Local
#mendbarriers
77. Grange Big Local
Big Lottery funding and local connectivity
Jon Woolfson, Community Partnership Manager, Grange Big Local
78. Grange Big Local
One of 150 area in England awarded £1 million of lottery money
Big Local outcomes
Communities will be better able to identify local needs and take action in response to them
People will have increased skills and confidence, so that they continue to identify and respond
to needs in the future
The community will make a difference to the needs it prioritises
People will feel that their area is an even better place to live
Resident-led initiative with partnerships deciding how to spend
Programme runs for ten years and first plan was approved in 2016
Residents have consulted on local priorities
Open spaces and environment is amongst the priorities
An open spaces strategy has been developed
80. Background
Underpass is pedestrian crossing under tube line that goes through East Finchley
Underpass has come up as an issue amongst residents
Issues with people feeling unsafe using the underpass and lines of sight
Desire to run a project to get local people to feel ownership
Rara Cooperative approached to conduct feasibility study, Autumn 2016
Area committee approached for £9,999 of funding, Autumn 2016
Area committee agreed funding and Grange Big Local matched it, Winter 2016
Changing specification and some delays…
Site visit with Barnet Council and TfL, Spring 2018
Details of planned improvements approved by Council, Spring 2018
82. The project to improve the underpass
area
Removal of a single bollard at the Trinity Road end
Re-siting ‘public footpath’ sign
Resurfacing of the footway leading to the underpass in both directions
Installation of mirrors
Trimming of hedge
Installation of new bins
Lighting upgrade
Replace double railing at Manor Park Road end with planters or similar
83. The project (continued)
Review and adjust levels at Manor Park Road end to prevent rain water
flowing along the footpath
Re-paint air vent and bollards on Manor Park Road side and install new
reflective bands
Install ‘Cyclists dismount’ signs at Manor Park Road end
Fence at the rear of Trinity Road to be altered to improve sight line
Mural project to involve local young people in summer scheme
Clearing rubbish
Planting
84. Overcoming barriers
Give people a sense of ownership
Make the underpass area more aesthetically pleasing
Get young people involved in artwork
Bottom-up meets top-down – grassroots working with local authority
Symbolic footpath joining of two halves of the Grange Big Local area
Connecting area between estate and school
Keep people informed through newsletters and local newspaper
85. Lessons learnt
Projects can take longer than first expected
Need to understand partners and stakeholders, who needs to be involved,
when and how
Get early project buy-in, including from commissioning director and local
councillors
Targeted support in understanding how to navigate the complexities of local
authorities and partnership working could make a difference
Local authority officials aren’t always used to working with grassroots
initiatives
86. Thank you for listening!
www.grangebiglocal.org
info@grangebiglocal.org
Funding Locally trusted organisation
