Localism UK news

• Frome residents win five-year battle for community-led housing project, theguardian.com (Jan 23, 2025) — “What’s really exciting for me is that it’s not actually about the amount of commercial space or the affordable housing it will provide – it’s about the sense of confidence and agency and possibility that I think it will give us as a community.” Fiona Barrows, Frome town councillor
• ‘People feel a sense of ownership’: the growth of community composting, theguardian.com (Jan 23, 2025) — residents of an English village build their own composting site

• “We live in a mere shadow of the world we could have”. Dil Green—building commons by means of housing and local trading, in Stroud and Liverpool—has a pathway, Daily Alternative (Nov 03, 2024)

• CPRE submits response to consultation on planning system, cpre.org.uk (Sep 25, 2024) — Among CPRE's many recommendations in response to the wide scope of the consultation, CPRE calls for a more transparent method of assessing genuine housing need, a new definition of affordable so that house prices reflect average local incomes, and a greater focus on sustainable travel.
• Flour to the people: the Scottish collective working to democratise better bread, positive.news (Sep 23, 2024)

• Craft cider is surprisingly good for the environment, theconversation.com (Jul 25, 2024)
• Home-grown: A roadmap to resilient fruit and vegetable production in England. A collaboration, 360 report published by The Soil Association, Sustain and The Wildlife Trusts, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Jul 03, 2024) — the report outlines seven steps to restore resilience to the horticulture sector

• What are the embryonic initiatives that quickly and radically transform society? Maybe ours will be gardens, suggests Greg Frey, Daily Alternative (Jun 06, 2024)

• Public backs move to green home heating but more government support is needed, research shows, theconversation.com (May 02, 2024) — "...in Liverpool, strong local identity and a feeling of solidarity led most participants to prefer a locally-owned system to private provision."
• ‘This May Day is a Celebration of Work and Innovation’, Dave Proudlove, thestokemodel.com (May 01, 2024)

• Digitally mapping fertile spaces, teaching deep permaculture, all becoming co-stewards: Plymouth’s special social power at work, Daily Alternative (Mar 13, 2024)
• ‘We’re totally pay as you can’: the UK restaurant prioritising people and planet, theguardian.com (Mar 06, 2024)

• A laughter cafe, a healing cafe, a soup cafe, a mending cafe... Anything but yet another coffee cafe, pleads Bridget McKenzie, Daily Alternative (Feb 21, 2024)

• "We just flippin' do it": how a rural cooperative from Lancashire built the fastest broadband in Britain, The Daily Alternative (Sep 21, 2022)
• Getting Coherent, Alternative Editorial (Jun 19, 2022)
• Massive majorities in the UK value their community members most to sort out problems (and MPs least). Power to the lowest level is the cry, The Daily Alternative (May 16, 2022)
• Fringe Farming Report Reveals Green Recovery Potential, ShefFood (Mar 18, 2022)
• Community businesses emerged stronger from pandemic, Locality research reveals, thenews.coop (Mar 16, 2022)

• This Really Is From The Grassroots Up...^[1] Sep 15, 2019
• Don't look to national politics for hope: you'll find it thriving in local councils, John Harris.^[2] May 5, 2019
• Timpson says a locally-driven approach needed to rejuvenate high streets. Retail industry experts have called for a community-focused approach to tackling the challenges facing high streets and town centres. Dec 20, 2018...^[3] Dec 20
• Lesley Riddoch on the "power of local" - communities taking control in their own way, Nov 10, 2018...^[4]
• One way to challenge the preeminence of big banks is to build a small one. The story of Avon Mutual. Oct 30, 2018...^[5]
• Citizen-led Economic Transition – a four point framework for guiding action^[6] Oct 27, 2018.

References

• Forget nimbys. Yimby housing policy can transform the UK – with the political will, Aug 11^[1]
• "I'm welling up just talking about it": the marvel of Totnes LEF6, May 16, 2017^[2]
• Shop local – you can't afford not to, May 3, 2017...^[3]
• How 'Grown in Totnes' are reimagining the local food economy, May 2, 2017^[4]

References

• There's no economy without community, September 24, 2015...^[1]
• CLES Manifesto for Local Economies charts a more socially just future, March 17, 2015...^[2]
• New support launched to help communities save local pub as a co-operative, November 11, 2014...^[3]
• Mary Portas and the Golden Tickets of Dorking, November 7, 2013...^[4]
• Do our local systems need a complete overhaul to enable Open and Creative Citizenship? August 24, 2013...^[5]
• Local Economic Blueprint highlights potential of community resilience, March 28, 2013.

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