£5 million awarded to Coventry City Council to tackle health inequalities through research
The funding is awarded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) to create a pioneering Health Determinants Research Collaboration (HDRC) in the city. Coventry’s collaboration will undertake this ground breaking work and includes Coventry University, the University of Warwick, University College London, and University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire as well as a wide range of partners within the community and voluntary […]
Party conference round up
Our ‘Creating Healthy Cities’ event delved into the findings of our recent research report, with speakers discussing how our cities could be completely revolutionised by prioritising health within local and national policy. Dan Norris, Mayor of the West of England, stressed the importance of good housing to health – people need to have access to […]
New sports club aims to tackle loneliness
Medway Council has been awarded £9,800 from Sport England to launch the Sporting Memories Club which will be held at Strood Sports Centre starting in October. The first hour of the club will be devoted to talking and remembering past sporting events and activities and during the second hour residents will take part in light […]
Vaux housing scoops national award
Sunderland City Council’s innovative new housing development, which will be a centrepiece of the Riverside Sunderland urban quarter, has scooped the Homes England Masterplanning Award at the 2022 Housing Design Awards, recognising the trailblazing nature of the properties being built. The scheme, which will deliver 132 new homes, was showcased last week, just days after work […]
APSE award for Salt Ayre leisure centre energy efficiency project
The council came away with the top prize in the ‘Best Climate Action or Decarbonisation Initiative’ category at this year’s APSE (Association for Public Service Excellence) awards. The awards recognise and celebrate councils that have achieved excellent results in different service areas. Using £6.8million in funding from the government’s Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme (PSDS), the […]
Upcoming autumn events
Next week we will be exploring the opportunities available in levelling up. See below for dates and links to more details on each event. A round up of the discussions at the fringe event is available from our blog post. Tuesday 27 September – Creating Healthy Cities – room 4A, ACC Liverpool (inside the […]
Key Cities and Levelling Up: What is needed from the new Government?
With projects now coming to the fore, the opportunities within the levelling up agenda are beginning to emerge, with many places leading the charge in what is possible. However, the process for securing levelling up funding is too short term in outlook, creating confusion and uncertainty, which is making it unnecessarily challenging for local government […]
Top national award for Coventry Council team
A Coventry City Council service has secured a prestigious, national award for its work helping support some of the most vulnerable people and families in the city. The Housing and Homelessness Service has been named the Large Team of the Year in the LGC Awards 2022, which celebrates excellence in local government. This year the […]
Wolverhampton makes £20million bid to help fund Green Innovation Corridor
The Government announced in February 2022 that Wolverhampton and Sheffield would be the first of 20 cities to benefit from part of £1.5billion of Levelling Up funding for new infrastructure to be developed on brownfield land to boost housing and jobs. The aim of the Green Innovation Corridor is to build on Wolverhampton’s growth as […]
Eden Project North Levelling Up Fund bid for £50m submitted
The Eden bid aims to be one of the two £50m awards being given out in the second round of the Levelling Up Fund for projects with a culture and heritage investment theme. These awards are for “flagship projects and must be in line with the Fund’s focus on highly visible interventions that boost local […]
