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IPM Partners, We Are Staffordshire, launched their new quality of life offer this year and became the first UK location to join a prestigious national advisory board on place branding.

A new report identifies some of the key challenges the High Streets Task Force, run by the Institute of Place Management, has uncovered from visits to over 140 towns over the past four years.

The Liverpool Strategic Futures Advisory Panel, setup following a series of critical reports into the city council’s governance and operations in 2021, has released its initial findings in an interim report.

Two IPM Senior Fellows, the Institute’s Interim CEO Ian Harvey and Diane Wehrle, Marketing and Insights Director, MRI Springboard, were guests on a BBC Radio 4 ‘You and Yours’ programme on 19^th September 2023, called How well does your high street work for you?

Business Improvement Districts representing towns and cities around the UK have joined together to form influential working groups that tackle key issues in town and city centres.

The professional body for place leaders and managers has urged the Government to carefully manage possible changes to business rates regulations so as not to risk damaging high street investment.

To get the most impact from billions of pounds of government investment and truly level up the UK, the private sector must share risk with local authorities, argues Paul Wright from the Whatifgroup and Senior Fellow of the IPM.

IPM Fellow Joe Barrett met with market sector leaders and the Minister for Levelling Up to make the case for markets as critical to the activation of UK towns.

New report - the Institute of Place Management welcomes new government proposals to take control of long-vacant high street properties.

On the 19^th June, The BID Foundation chaired the latest meeting of the Sector Leaders Groups, joining colleagues from DLUHC and a range of leading membership bodies to share priorities for the high street and town centres.