Building new communities

The Young Foundation is hosting a series of seminars to investigate issues around building new communities as part of the England’s latest wave of house building. These meetings will bring together invited representatives from English Partnerships and other key agencies involved in delivering the government’s targets to investigate the following four specific themes:

Seminar one
28th April - London
Building forms of stewardship that encourage participation in new developments – what is known from good practise and research?

Seminar two
19th May - Birmingham
The tensions between national policy aspirations over a range of issues including raised involvement and sense of ownership and what residents want – how can ways be found to negotiate solutions locally?

Seminar three
2nd June - Manchester
The link between environmental sustainability and participation – how can sustainable lifestyles and behaviour change be encouraged in new housing developments and how does this link to participation?

Seminar four
30th June – Milton Keynes
Constructing longer term stewardship and governance – through new mechanisms like community councils, neighbourhood charters, development trusts and different ways of generating income streams for community activity.

The project is sponsored by English Partnerships, the Housing Corporation, IDeA and CIH. To find out more see the Building New Communities page.