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In 2019 LB Waltham Forest was London’s first Borough of Culture. Lorna Lee, Assistant Director, Culture & Heritage, shares the highlights and challenges of WF19 and how lessons learnt from that year have informed the council’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Successful growth is typically measured by indicators such as numbers of jobs and the total amount of wealth, but these measures don’t tell the whole story. Jonathan Kay, Senior Regeneration Manager, explains why LB Brent is taking a new approach to economic growth.
Spotlight by Leaders Plus alumna Rebecca Lee of PTE, whose growing obsession with better, more collaborative digital mapping led her and FoL’s Lisa Taylor to organise the 9th Dec #MapLondon conference.
These are complicated times for communication: citizens are often angry and/or confused, byzantine data requirements are tying up organisations of all kinds, and “real time” has a sort of elasticity where sector processes can take ages but sector gossip travels faster than light. We’ve been hearing lots of people in … Read more
As one of NHS England’s 10 Healthy New Towns, Barking Riverside will support healthy placemaking for 10,800 households in one of London’s largest development sites.
In this guest Spotlight, LB Harrow councillor Adam Swersky shares his experiences setting a local authority budget while under pressure from severe cuts.
This Spotlight looks at the Mayor’s Crowdfunding Programme, an initiative managed through the GLA to provide funding to community projects.
This Spotlight looks at LB Islington’s young person’s design competition, which invited young people to create a masterplan for a local regeneration site.