Blog Archives - Southern Policy Centre

Creativity, Culture and Place

June 1, 2022

Creativity, Culture and Place: Background paper Project aim The Southern Policy Centre has been commissioned by the Partnership for South Hampshire to explore the role the creative and cultural sector plays in the central South. We’ll be following a two-stage approach: 1. Seminar for senior policy-makers on 10th June to: understand the contribution cultural organisations and creative industries can make to realising the region’s ambitions for its economy and communities explore our priorities in supporting the sector discuss the broad…

Levelling Up White Paper: a response from the central South

May 9, 2022

John Denham

All, Blog, Devolution, Devolution: strategy for the central South, News, Publications

Levelling Up White Paper: a response from the central South In mid-March, the Southern Policy Centre held a webinar to discuss the Government’s Levelling Up and Devolution White Paper [1]with speakers from local councils, business and national think tanks. Here SPC Director John Denham reflects on some of the challenges facing our local authorities as they respond to the White Paper. Public debate about local devolution and levelling up has inevitably been a bit muted for the past few weeks…

Starting Well: giving young people the best chance in life

February 22, 2022

Simon Eden

All, Blog, Living Well, News, Publications, Working with young people

Starting Well: giving young people the best chance in life Introduction The University of Winchester and Southern Policy Centre have been working together to encourage what we believe is a timely and important debate about how we can secure a better life for all members of society. On 26th January the University hosted the third in a series of seminars exploring aspects of our health and wellbeing at different stages of life, this one looking at how we can give…

Re-imagining our city centres: one year on

January 27, 2022

Simon Eden

All, Blog, Publications, Skills, Tomorrow's City Centres

Re-imagining our city centres: one year on In November 2020 SPC and Blake Morgan launched a report exploring the future of our city centres. For some time now we have seen changes in retail driven by on-line shopping. That fuelled a policy debate about the future of the ‘High Street.’ The pandemic accelerated that trend and brought new worries: more people working at home, fewer (or no) customers for cinemas, theatres and restaurants, people deserting public transport. Our report suggested…

Let’s make cities in the central South greener, healthier and wilder: the Southampton National City Park project

December 13, 2021

Ruth Eastwood

All, Blog, Environment, General, Guest posts

Let’s make cities in the central South greener, healthier and wilder: the Southampton National City Park project This is a guest blog by Milo Maguire from the Southampton National Park City project. The content of this post is solely the opinion of the author and does not necessarily reflect the opinions and beliefs of the Southern Policy Centre. Let’s make cities in the central South greener, healthier and wilder: the Southampton National City Park project National Park city is an…