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Edge Debate #118 - Exploring levelling up Roundtable


Community Needs Index Plan

On 10th December 2021 the Edge in collaboration with the Planning Team at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) held an Expert Roundtable to discuss the challenges and opportunities involved in delivering the levelling up agenda across the UK

Speakers:

Joanna Averley, Chief Planner, DLUHC

Robin Nicholson, Convenor of the Edge and;Chair

Rose Grayston, New Economics Foundation and lead author of No Place Left Behind: The Commission into Prosperity and Community Placemaking, 2021

Jon Rouse - City Director, Stoke on Trent. Case Study

John Goddard, Professor Regional Development Studies, Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS), University of Newcastle on education

Rhiannon Corcoran, Professor of Psychology & Public Mental Health, University of Liverpool on health

Kat Deeney, Natural Infrastructure Manager, Plymouth City Council on the natural environment

David Cowans, Former CEO, Places for People on housing

Jenny Raggett, Project coordinator, Transport for New Homes on transport

Martin Ellerby, Chair, Forum for the Built Environment (Greater Manchester) on development

Marianne Heaslip, URBED on planmaking

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