Successful City-Suburbs for Successful City-Regions
The City-Suburbs project aims to raise the profile of suburbs in national policy. It hopes to provide a vision and policy for action for those tasked with shaping suburbs going forward, securing their role as successful, aspirational places within successful cities.
The work is being sponsored jointly by the London Borough of Barnet, the Leadership Centre for Local Government, the New Local Government Network, and the Academy for Sustainable Communities, in partnership with a number of other public bodies including:
- RB Kingston upon Thames
- Trafford MBC
- Solihull MBC
- Stockport MBC
- LB Ealing
- LB Havering
- LB Croydon
- Capital Ambition
Publications
September policy event
- State of the Suburbs - An economic, social and environmental analysis of the English suburbs
(PDF 1.65MB) - Agenda - 6 - 7 September 2007 (PDF 142KB)
- Cities, city-suburbs and exurbia (PDF 241KB)
by Joe Simpson, Leadership Centre for Local Government. - State of the Suburbs (PDF 907KB)
by John Fisher, Local Futures Group. - Responding to the Changing Economy (PDF 261KB)
by Alexandra Jones, The Work Foundation. - Transport and the City Regions (PDF 68KB)
by Glenn Athey, Centre for Cities. - Housing, Sustainability and Climate Change (PDF 1.34MB)
by Professor James Woudhuysen, De Montfort University. - View from a City Suburb (PDF 67KB)
by Councillor Stephen Houghton, Barnsley MBC.
Interim Report
Successful City-Suburbs for Successful City-RegionsJuly Agenda Setting Meeting
- Main presentation (PDF 118KB)
- Local Futures presentation (PDF 479KB)
- Ipsos MORI presentation (PDF 93KB)
Media Coverage
Extracts from media coverage of the City Suburbs project are available on the media coverage page.
Contacts
For more information, please contact:
Dominic Campbell,
Project Manager
Email: dominic.campbell@lcslimited.co.uk
Mobile: 07818 407 162
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