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this place matters re-thinking local leadership
What do we want our place to be like?
How do we get there?
Professor David Adams
Professor Trevor Davies
Diarmaid Lawlor
VALE OF LEVEN
Professor David Adams
this place matters re-thinking local leadership
WHY Place Matters
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• Places condition our livesThey matter to human experience
• Places can help or hinder our democracy
• Good places attractFailing places repel
• Place is the physical ‘container’ for all the people, institutions and activities that occupy it
• Place-making involves economy, society and environment
WHY Place Matters
Why is place so important?
• Local governance is about more than delivering services
• It is about making places successful, now and for the future
• It has to involve everyone• Learning what makes places
succeed or fail should be at its heart
• It’s often no more expensive to create successful places than failing ones. It just needs care and advance thought WHY Place Matters
Shaping places is about governance
• Leadership drives forward action, breeds confidence, reduces risk & widens participation
• Leadership is about vision, culture, motivation, resources.
• This cannot be privatised – it needs local action within a local democratic mandate
WHY Place Matters
Shaping places needs leadership
Diarmaid Lawlor
this place matters re-thinking local leadership
THIS Place: what you said
VALE OF LEVEN
THIS Place
THIS Place
Assets
THIS Place
Assets
Collaboration
THIS Place
Assets
Collaboration
Associations
THIS Place
• Alexandria Precinct• ‘walk in any direction’
• hills in 10 minutes• Fantastic natural assets
• Greenspace resources
• Less literally: image• Long & continuing association with industry
• Historic and inward investment
• Aggreko manufacturing facility
• Award winning building
• State of the art facility for local population
• Collaborative dual purpose
• Regeneration effects
assets collaboration associations
connections
THIS Place
THIS Place
Storytelling
THIS Place
Storytelling
Health
THIS Place
Storytelling
Health
AbsencePotential
THIS Place
storytelling health potential
alignment• Bad outlook for visitors• Through way for traffic• Sealife/freshwater?• Storytelling of rich heritage?
• Advertised attraction/ crumbling
• Poor quality retail/Empty
• Undervalued natural assets
• Unrealised• Eyesore• Needs regenerated• What internal and external impact?
• Bad design• Lack of maintenance• Dampness• Deterioration
assets collaboration association
storytelling health potential
Workshop
this place matters re-thinking local leadership
Why does THIS place matter?
VALE OF LEVEN
Why does this place matter?
Say why this place matters to you today
THIS Place
And find the things that matter to you all
THIS Place
Where are we going?
In practice, who is leading here now?
THIS Place
What are the current relationships between leaders and citizens?
In practice, who is leading?
Where are we going?
In practice, who is leading here now?
THIS Place
What are the current relationships between leaders and citizens?
In practice, who is leading? What is local collaboration like?
Professor Trevor Davies
this place matters re-thinking local leadership
Finding common purpose
VALE OF LEVEN
Where are we going?
THIS Place
And how does all that about Vale of Leven make you feel?
In practice, who is leading?
THIS Place Common PurposeProfessor Marshall Ganz
Uncertainty
Hope
Where are we going?
strateg
y
analysis
HOW?
storymotivation
WHY?
Head Heart
Action
Common Purpose
Two ways of understanding:
Professor Marshall Ganz
green
Leadership is taking responsibility for enabling others to achieve shared purpose in the face of uncertainty
Common PurposeProfessor Marshall Ganz
MOTIVATORS
urgency inertia
anger apathy
hope fear
solidarity isolation
You can make a difference self-doubtO
VER
CO
MES
Common Purpose
INHIBITORS
Professor Marshall Ganz
Common PurposeProfessor Marshall Ganz
Uncertainty to hope?
You need skills to
motivate others
to join you in action
story of
selfcall to leadership
story of
nowstrategy & action
story of
usshared values &
shared experience
PURPOSE
CO
MM
UNITY U
RGEN
CYCommon PurposeProfessor Marshall Ganz
Public Narrative
The Story of your future part 1
Common Purpose
SELF: What personal values led you to public action?
The Story of your future part 1
Common Purpose
What personal values led you to public action?
US: What is the common ground in your values?
SELF: What personal values led you to public action?
SELF: What personal values led you to public action?
Common Purpose
US: What is the common ground in your values?
NOW : Using common values, dream big changes here by 2025
The Story of your future part 1
Professor Trevor Davies
this place matters re-thinking local leadership
Founding on Values
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action
• Values inspire action through emotion
• Emotions inform us of what we value
• Decisions to act are based on judgements about values
Values into Action
Common PurposeProfessor Marshall Ganz
35
S Schwartz 2006 adapted by L HigginsN Pecorelli 2013 for IPPR
Schwartz’s Values Wheel
Prospector
Settler
Pioneer
Professor Marshall Ganz Common Purpose
this place matters re-thinking local leadership
BREAK!
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Professor David Adams
this place matters re-thinking local leadership
What makes a successful place?
VALE OF LEVEN
5 characteristics of successful places• Places intended for people
• Well connected & permeable places
• Places of mixed use & varied density
• Distinctive places
• Sustainable, resilient & robust places
WHY Place Matters
Places intended for people• Successful places attract
people, and encourage them to linger and return
• The more diverse the activities on offer, the more people will come
• But people want to feel safe, comfortable & not be overwhelmed by traffic or the scale of the environment
WHY Place Matters
Well connected & permeable places• Successful places allow
people to move in & through them easily, especially on foot or bicycle
• They have meeting places and stopping places
• Places that are better connected and easily accessible attract more trade & are more lively
WHY Place Matters
Places of mixed use & varied density• Towns traditionally grew &
developed as a patchwork of mixed activities & uses
• But, until recently, developers and planners have preferred to separate out activities & uses
• Mixing up uses within any building, street or area brings variety and vitality to places. What should be the limits to this?
WHY Place Matters
Distinctive placesSuccessful places places are distinctive & memorableBut too many places across the UK are virtually the same, with the same house types, same national chain stores, and the same branded restaurantsLet’s tackle urban monotony by encouraging places to be different!
WHY Place Matters
Sustainable, resilient & robust places• Sustainable design
means creating places that last for generations & reduce climate change
• Places that are resilient ‘bounce back’ from unexpected change
• Places that are robust are flexible enough to modified without excessive disruption
WHY Place Matters
Workshop
this place matters re-thinking local leadership
Building your future
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The Story of your future part 2
THIS Place
Describe your DESTINATION. What does this place in 2025 look like?
The Story of your future part 2
THIS Place
Describe your DESTINATION. What does this place in 2025 look like?
Tell the story of the journey from now till then …….
this place matters re-thinking local leadership
Key Local Issues
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Peter BarryHead of Customer & Community Services: West Dunbartonshire Council
THIS Place
• A new joined up approach to local services and communities• Improve the coordination and responsiveness of local
services with an emphasis on efficiency• Support the development of empowered and engaged
communities active in the design and delivery of services to the area
• Alexandria Pilot Sept 14 – March 15• Key issues in pilot:- anti-social behaviour, back courts, waste
management• Wider issues: employment and training, housing, health
Neighbourhood Management
What is Neighbourhood Management?
Workshop
this place matters re-thinking local leadership
How did we get there?
VALE OF LEVEN
Getting there: You got there!
THIS Place
Who led the changes your dream needed?
What did they do? What happened in your place as a result?
Looking back from 2025:
What assets & resources did they adapt or use?
THIS Place
BUT THAT FUTURE DIDN’T HAPPEN! Why?
Getting there: Oops!
What were the barriers and blocks to your future?
Professor David Adams
this place matters re-thinking local leadership
The tools to lead
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… we don’t use them properly?… we have no tools?
Does place leadership fail because …
Common Purpose
To shape places, we need effective policy tools
How well stocked is our policy toolbox?How well used in our policy toolbox?
Common Purpose
What might we expect to find in the well-stocked policy toolbox?
‘Shaping’ instruments
‘Capacity building’ instruments
‘Regulating’ instruments
‘Stimulus’ instruments
Common Purpose
• Spatial visions, strategies, plans, frameworks etc.
• Promote integrated thinking and enable collective action
• Can involve strategic transformation of whole areas
• Successful strategies have the ‘power of persuasion’ – they can radically change what people think is achievable
Shaping tools
Common Purpose
Regulating tools
Restrict choices by regulating what people can & cannot do
Most effective when they persuade people to follow policy intent, rather than just give up on their plans
Require consistent application and effective enforcement
Common Purpose
Stimulus toolsOpen up opportunities by ‘making things happen’ through:
Actions to kick-start development by direct state interventionDevelopment grants, taxation incentives and other price-adjusting actionsHolistic place management and other risk-reducing actionsPublic-private partnerships and other capital-raising actions
Common Purpose
Capacity building tools
Learn to think afresh, be open to new ideas, and learn from best practiceGain knowledge & information, especially about market actors & operationsBuild networks & relationships across the public, private & voluntary sectorsDevelop skills & capabilities in leadership, project management & cross-sectoral working
Local leaders will:
Common Purpose
Leadership capacity
Strategic Capacity
MotivationEmbedLearning
Salient Knowledge
Professor Marshall Ganz
Good leaders seek 'strategic capacity' in the organisations the lead:
knowledge of what matterslearning embedded in everything the organisation doesstrong motivation conveyed from the leaders to everyone
Common Purpose
Workshop
this place matters re-thinking local leadership
Defining your future
VALE OF LEVEN
The Story of your future part 3
THIS Place
Tell the story of getting from now till then …….
Say what your future is like
Where did change first start?
What action was most important?
Workshop
this place matters re-thinking local leadership
Getting started
VALE OF LEVEN
Leadership is taking responsibility for enabling others to achieve shared purpose in the face of uncertainty
Common PurposeProfessor Marshall Ganz
The Story of your future Getting Started
THIS Place
Tell the story of getting from now till then …….
So what happens now?
this place matters re-thinking local leadership
REFLECTIONS Feedback and Learning
Diarmaid Lawlor
VALE OF LEVEN
Why the Vale matters…
• Generations of families• Success• Opportunities
• People & place: resilience
• Services and facilities• Do we have the
mechanisms?
• Great place to live & work
• Do we have the ambition?
• Home: expect good.• Is it?• What should better look
like?
histories
expectation
potential
ambition
THIS Place
Leadership and collaboration here is about..…
• Expectation - the council/public agencies
• Can’t work on our own• Need strategic partners• A regeneration group?
• Enabling and invisible leadership
• Building capacity• Making space• Community participation
partners
roles
THIS Place
• Expectation=the council/public agencies
• Can’t work on our own• Need strategic partners• A regeneration group?
• Think big BUT…• need results• Sporadic collaboration• Capitalising on opportunities
‘in between’
• Long term relationship• Sustaining relationships• Feeding back what works:
impacts• Roles change over time
• Enabling and invisible leadership
• Building capacity• Making space• Community participation
partners
rolesrelationships
results
THIS Place
Leadership and collaboration here is [?] about..…
structures
impacts
THIS Place
Feelings…..
anxious
disappointed
optimistic
uncertain
curious protective
THIS Place
It’s about ‘enabling’‘capacities’ and ‘the long haul’…a common identity
Who is leading, and what collaboration…
THIS Place
So, where are the spaces to do this. Here?
THIS Place
Support services
Local services
Your community
WDC Neighbourhood management model…
THIS Place
WDC Neighbourhood management model…
Trust AND credibility
Share ambition with community
Public sector demonstrates: can change, can listen, can join up, can act
AND
Challenge and support communities to do more for themselves
If WE put in a bit more effort -better results when we make the ask of communities
what
how
THIS Place
WDC Neighbourhood management model…
Trust AND credibility
Share ambition with community
Public sector demonstrates: can change, can listen, can join up, can act
AND
Challenge and support communities to do more for themselves
If WE put in a bit more effort - better results when we make the ask of communities
Alexandria pilot
Anti social behaviour• Didn’t have right intelligence• People too frightened• Delegated responsibility
Back courts• Little work, high impacts• Huge transformation• People using
Waste management• Education and support to
help those who need it AND get messages across
THIS Place
IF its about the ‘long haul’, then…
• Long term relationship• Sustaining relationships• Feeding back what works:
impacts• Roles change over time
relationships
the starting point is people
futures
the starting point is people
A vibrant successful town. Work opportunities for all, events, creativity, know our heritage. Leaders working because they could make a difference. Community attracting people
1
the starting point is people
Busy, attractive, still relatively small town; attractive to visitors, not because of an attraction: attractive place to spend time; people came back more than once; and more people want to live here. An attractive and happy place
2
the starting point is people
Grandfathers live here, and grandkids stay near by. A place of choice, community feel. People aspire to stay here.
3
the starting point is people
People enjoy their community, can achieve and use their skills
4
THIS Place
IF it’s about ‘enabling’‘capacities’ and ‘the long haul’…a common identity
assetscollaboration association
storytelling health potential
THIS Place
Complicated questionslessons learned at the RUHR
Sustainable management at the RUHR is based on voluntary inter-local & regional Co-Operation
- is possible
- needs visions and projects
- needs moderation and informal management
- asks for qualities in different fields
- is based on peoples trust
re-think realities
Vibrant, connected, scenic• Cultural heritage• Enhance older communities• Events• River and cycle path, connections
Unique brand• Everyone knows• A starter location• A place that’s really interesting to walk
around: public art• Regeneration, derelict land, asset
management
Network of community spaces• Community spaces hosting local services• Mixed services: support, trades• River and landscape connect service places
Connected attractive• Attractive town centres• Connections to attractive landscapes• Excellent ordinary services• Learning as we go and from other places
Champions…
• Local authority backing• Local action [Berlin]
and met half way
• Targeting place priorities
• Action updated year by year: proof and impact
• Common vision and identity
• Physical upgrade of housing and natural assets
• Collaborative structures made visible
catalyst
collaborative
incremental
identity
THIS Place
Failure..…
THIS Place
• No common vision• Political conflcts• Failure of storytelling• Good leadership but
problems down the line
• Unrealistic fantasy offer• Too much, too long, too
hard
• Didn’t fail: just take longer to get there. Don’t get knocked off course
• People resist change
• Outside interference• Poor resource
management; not resources
common purpose
local decisions
reality
determination
THIS Place
opportunity
Do. Learn. Do more
THIS Place
Our future…..
homely
unique
vibrant
working
happier investment
THIS Place
kicked off by…..
vision
determination
desire for better
brilliant plan
Held to account collaboration
Awareness /capabilities
trust
champion
communication
common identity
this place matters re-thinking local leadership
INFORMATION
www.thisplacematters.org.uk
VALE OF LEVEN