This Place Matters - Stirling 27 May 2015

this place matters re-thinking local leadership

What do we want our place to be like?

How do we get there?

Professor David Adams

Professor Trevor Davies

Dr James White

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WHY Place Matters

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• Places condition our livesThey matter to human experience

• Places can help or hinder our democracy

• Good places attractFailing places repel

• Place is the physical ‘container’ for all the people, institutions and activities that occupy it

• Place-making involves economy, society and environment

WHY Place Matters

Why is place so important?

• Local governance is about more than delivering services

• It is about making places successful, now and for the future

• It has to involve everyone• Learning what makes places

succeed or fail should be at its heart

• It’s often no more expensive to create successful places than failing ones. It just needs care and advance thought WHY Place Matters

Shaping places is about governance

• Leadership drives forward action, breeds confidence, reduces risk & widens participation

• Leadership is about vision, culture, motivation, resources.

• This cannot be privatised – it needs local action within a local democratic mandate

WHY Place Matters

Shaping places needs leadership



THIS Place: good and bad?

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Top of the Town: good and bad?

One good image of this place

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One bad image of this place

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Why does THIS place matter?

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Why does this place matter?

Why this place matters to you today

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Then find the things that matter that you share

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Where are we going?

In practice, who is leading here now?

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What are the current relationships between leaders and citizens?

In practice, who is leading?

Where are we going?

In practice, who is leading here now?

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What are the current relationships between leaders and citizens?

In practice, who is leading? What is local collaboration like?



Finding common purpose

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Where are we going?

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And how does all that about your place make you feel?

In practice, who is leading?

THIS Place Common PurposeProfessor Marshall Ganz

Uncertainty

Hope

Where are we going?

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analysis

HOW?

storymotivation

WHY?

Head Heart

Action

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Two ways of understanding:

Professor Marshall Ganz

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Leadership is taking responsibility for enabling others to achieve shared purpose in the face of uncertainty

Common PurposeProfessor Marshall Ganz

MOTIVATORS

urgency inertia

anger apathy

hope fear

solidarity isolation

You can make a difference self-doubtO

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INHIBITORS



Uncertainty to hope?

You need skills to

motivate others

to join you in action

story of

selfcall to leadership

story of

nowstrategy & action

story of

usshared values &

shared experience

PURPOSE

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UNITY U

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CYCommon PurposeProfessor Marshall Ganz

Public Narrative

The Story of your future part 1

Common Purpose

SELF: What personal values led you to public action?


Common Purpose

What personal values led you to public action?

US: What is the common ground in your values?



Common Purpose

US: What is the common ground in your values?

NOW : Using common values, dream big changes here by 2025




Founding on Values

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action

• Values inspire action through emotion

• Emotions inform us of what we value

• Decisions to act are based on judgements about values

Values into Action


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S Schwartz 2006 adapted by L HigginsN Pecorelli 2013 for IPPR

Schwartz’s Values Wheel

Prospector

Settler

Pioneer

Professor Marshall Ganz Common Purpose


BREAK!

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Dr James White


What makes a successful place?

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5 characteristics of successful places• Places intended for people

• Well connected & permeable places

• Places of mixed use & varied density

• Distinctive places

• Sustainable, resilient & robust places

WHY Place Matters

Places intended for people• Successful places attract

people, and encourage them to linger and return

• The more diverse the activities on offer, the more people will come

• But people want to feel safe, comfortable & not be overwhelmed by traffic or the scale of the environment

WHY Place Matters

Well connected & permeable places• Successful places allow

people to move in & through them easily, especially on foot or bicycle

• They have meeting places and stopping places

• Places that are better connected and easily accessible attract more trade & are more lively

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Places of mixed use & varied density• Towns traditionally grew &

developed as a patchwork of mixed activities & uses

• But, until recently, developers and planners have preferred to separate out activities & uses

• Mixing up uses within any building, street or area brings variety and vitality to places. What should be the limits to this?

WHY Place Matters

Distinctive placesSuccessful places places are distinctive & memorableBut too many places across the UK are virtually the same, with the same house types, same national chain stores, and the same branded restaurantsLet’s tackle urban monotony by encouraging places to be different!

WHY Place Matters

Sustainable, resilient & robust places• Sustainable design

means creating places that last for generations & reduce climate change

• Places that are resilient ‘bounce back’ from unexpected change

• Places that are robust are flexible enough to modified without excessive disruption

WHY Place Matters

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Building your future

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Describe your DESTINATION. What does this place in 2025 look like?


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Describe your DESTINATION. What does this place in 2025 look like?

Tell the story of the journey from now till then …….


Key Local IssuesMargaret Wallace

Communities Manager: Stirling Council

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Top of the Town and Mercat Cross

Both areas sit within the Castle ward and share a community council. The area is currently represented by:• Johanna Boyd (Labour)• John Hendry (Labour)• Jim Thomson (SNP)The Mercat Cross Community Council has an approximate population of 4066.

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Profile

• A high % of the population are 16-24 years due to the high number of University students.

• Fewer people are economically active (24.8%) compared to the rest of Stirling (36.7%) because of this concentration of students.

• 25.6% of the Mercat Cross area are students compared to 7.6% as the Stirling average.

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Health & Wellbeing• Life expectancy for this area represents the

average for Scotland. • Some health inequalities exist in terms of lower

than average birth weight and poor uptake of immunisation.

• The Stirling Castle and St Mary’s area are in the 15% most deprived areas of Scotland. Top of theTown, the Castle and St Mary’s are in the lowest15% most deprived for educational performance. Upper Bridge Street sits in the top 15% in terms of crime.

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Key PointsThe Top of the Town & Mercat Cross represents:• an area of significant built heritage.• it serves as a focus for Culture (Tollbooth).• a developing plan exists to create a ‘cultural

quarter’ integrated into the local community.• a disjoint between the retail centre of Stirling and

the potential of the Top of the Town.• community safety is a key issue (Substance Misuse

& ASB key). Particularly in Friar Street, Back Walk and Murray Place.

• tenancies are transient due to student population this can challenge the sense of place.

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Summary

The Top of the Town and Mercat Cross are areas ofregeneration and are experiencing community safety concerns.

The potential however is significant with its history,architecture and the arrival of large businesses.

The community is active and articulate and requires support to establish a strong identity.

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How did we get there?

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Getting there: You got there!

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Who led the changes your dream needed?

What did they do? What happened in your place as a result?

Looking back from 2025:

What assets & resources did they adapt or use?

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BUT THAT FUTURE DIDN’T HAPPEN! Why?

Getting there: Oops!

What were the barriers and blocks to your future?



The tools to lead

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… we don’t use them properly?… we have no tools?

Does place leadership fail because …

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To shape places, we need effective policy tools

How well stocked is our policy toolbox?How well used in our policy toolbox?

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What might we expect to find in the well-stocked policy toolbox?

‘Shaping’ instruments

‘Capacity building’ instruments

‘Regulating’ instruments

‘Stimulus’ instruments

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• Spatial visions, strategies, plans, frameworks etc.

• Promote integrated thinking and enable collective action

• Can involve strategic transformation of whole areas

• Successful strategies have the ‘power of persuasion’ – they can radically change what people think is achievable

Shaping tools

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Regulating tools

Restrict choices by regulating what people can & cannot do

Most effective when they persuade people to follow policy intent, rather than just give up on their plans

Require consistent application and effective enforcement

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Stimulus toolsOpen up opportunities by ‘making things happen’ through:

Actions to kick-start development by direct state interventionDevelopment grants, taxation incentives and other price-adjusting actionsHolistic place management and other risk-reducing actionsPublic-private partnerships and other capital-raising actions

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Capacity building tools

Learn to think afresh, be open to new ideas, and learn from best practiceGain knowledge & information, especially about market actors & operationsBuild networks & relationships across the public, private & voluntary sectorsDevelop skills & capabilities in leadership, project management & cross-sectoral working

Local leaders will:

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Leadership capacity

Strategic Capacity

MotivationEmbedLearning

Salient Knowledge


Good leaders seek 'strategic capacity' in the organisations the lead:

knowledge of what matterslearning embedded in everything the organisation doesstrong motivation conveyed from the leaders to everyone

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Defining your future

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Tell the story of getting from now till then …….

Say what your future is like

Where did change first start?

What action was most important?

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Getting started

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Leadership is taking responsibility for enabling others to achieve shared purpose in the face of uncertainty


The Story of your future Getting Started

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Tell the story of getting from now till then …….

So what happens now?


REFLECTIONS Feedback and Learning

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INFORMATION

www.thisplacematters.org.uk

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This Place Matters - Stirling 27 May 2015

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