Great Places Commission – lessons from the North East

National Housing Federation

Year of publication: 2018

This report summarises the Great Places Commission's visit to the North East, including Middlesbrough, Seaham and Gateshead.

Topic: Economy, Infrastructure, Placemaking, Regeneration, Society

Type: Report

Great Places indicator report

National Housing Federation

Year of publication: 2018

This report by the National Housing Federation's Research Team develops a set of indicators to explore the importance of place and links between deprivation and community life.

Topic: Environment, Placemaking, Society

Type: Data, Report

Delivering a Northern infrastructure strategy

The Institution of Civil Engineers

Year of publication: 2017

The report provides recommendations to address the economic and social challenges facing the North of England, covering governance, energy infrastructure, transport, housing and digital technologies.

Topic: Anchor institutions, Economy, Infrastructure

Congestion, capacity, carbon: priorities for national infrastructure

National Infrastructure Commission

Year of publication: 2017

The report, the first interim National Infrastructure Assessment, seeks to identify key priorities ahead of the Commission’s 2018 National Infrastructure Strategy. It identifies three challenges: congestion, capacity and carbon.

Topic: Environment, Infrastructure

Addressing Economic Insecurity

Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce and Nottingham Civic Exchange

Year of publication: 2018

This report forms part of a wider programme of work – Out of the Ordinary – focused on contemporary challenges of ordinary working families.

Topic: Economy, Equality, Health, Placemaking, Society

Type: Report

Valuing Social Infrastructure

Caroline Slocock: Early Action Task Force and Community Links

Year of publication: 2018

This report reviews social infrastructure across communities. Social infrastructure is what makes people want to live in an area, businesses want to trade and investors invest. It comprises: Buildings, facilities and the built environment Services and organisations Strong and healthy communities

Topic: Anchor institutions, Infrastructure, Placemaking, Society

Type: Report

Trading Places – Why firms locate where they do

Centre for Cities

Year of publication: 2016

This report explores the reasons firms locate to the places they do, whether that is in city centres or non-urban locations. The research focuses on firms that sell goods and services outside their immediate area, to regional, national or international markets.

Topic: Anchor institutions, Economy, Placemaking, Regeneration

Type: Report

People Power: Findings from the Commission on the future of localism

Locality

Year of publication: 2018

The Commission on the Future of Localism was established to consider how to reinvigorate the localism agenda. The report argues that radical action is needed to unlock the power of community, by strengthening local institutions, devolving tangible power, resources and control, ensuring equality in community participation and driving cultural change.

Topic: Anchor institutions, Equality, Society

Devolution Hub

National Housing Federation

Year of publication: 2018

A selection of resources to assist local areas with Devolution. Information can be searched for by Combined Authority or topic area. Topic areas include: Collaboration, Creating great places, Health and housing, Homelessness, Influencing, Rural, and Supply (new homes).

Topic: Anchor institutions, Economy, Health, Placemaking, Regeneration, Society

Type: Data

Thinkhouse.org.uk

The site is curated by an independent editorial panel.

Year of publication: Ongoing

Thinkhouse.org.uk is a library resource for the housing sector, launched in Spring 2018, containing the best and most innovative research pieces, policy publications and case studies. Reports focus on ways to increase the amount and quality of the UK's housing stock and the related economic, social and community benefits of doing this. Resources are grouped by year and are assessed by an independent editorial board. All resources have a summary of findings and there are bite size facts for each year to highlight key publications. Subjects covered by reports in the library include homelessness, planning, housing associations, development and ageing.

Topic: Economy, Placemaking, Regeneration, Urban design