Post on 17-Jul-2015
COWIE
Professor David Adams
Professor Trevor Davies
Diarmaid Lawlor
this place matters
re-thinking local leadership
What do we want our
place to be like?
How do we get there?
• Places condition our lives
They matter to human
experience
• Places can help or hinder our
democracy
• Good places attract
Failing 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
Why does this place matter?
Say why this place matters to you
THIS Place
And find the things that matter to you all
THIS Place
Where are we going?
In practice, who is leading here?
THIS Place
What are the relationships between leaders
and citizens?
In practice, who is leading?
Where are we going?
In practice, who is leading?
THIS Place
What are the relationships between leaders
and citizens?
In practice, who is leading?What is local collaboration like?
Professor Trevor Davies
this place matters
re-thinking local leadership
Finding common purpose
COWIE
Where are we going?
THIS Place
And how does all that about Cowie make you feel?
In practice, who is leading?
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
differenceself-doubtO
VERCOMES
Common Purpose
INHIBITORS
Professor Marshall Ganz
Common PurposeProfessor Marshall Ganz
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
Common PurposeProfessor Marshall Ganz
Public Narrative
The Story of your future part 1
Common Purpose
What personal values led you to public action?
US: What is the common ground in your values?
SELF: What personal values led you to public action?
SELF: What personal values led you to public action?
Common Purpose
US: What is the common ground in your values?
NOW : Using common values, dream big changes here by 2025
The Story of your future part 1
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
Common PurposeProfessor Marshall Ganz
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S Schwartz 2006 adapted by L Higgins
N Pecorelli 2013 for IPPR
Schwartz’s Values Wheel
Prospector
Settler
Pioneer
Professor Marshall Ganz Common Purpose
Professor David Adams
this place matters
re-thinking local leadership
What makes a successful place?
COWIE
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
WHY Place Matters
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 & memorable
But too many places across the
UK are virtually the same, with
the same house types, same
national chain stores, and the
same branded restaurants
Let’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
The Story of your future part 2
THIS Place
Describe your DESTINATION.
What does this place in 2025 look like?
The Story of your future part 2
THIS Place
Describe your DESTINATION.
What does this place in 2025 look like?
Tell the story of the journey from now till then …….
this place matters
re-thinking local leadership
Key Local Issues
COWIE
Tracey MillsAsset Development Manager: Stirling Council
THIS Place
Facts and Figures
• Cowie Community Council Area – 2713
• Male 49% - Female 51%
• Cowie Community Council Area – 9.3 km2
Information from the 2011 Census
THIS Place
Age Structure
Information from the 2011 Census
Age Range Cowie % Stirling %
0 to 4 5.9% 4.9%
5 to 11 10.7% 7.7%
12 to 15 5.9% 5.2%
16 to 24 10.9% 14%
25 to 44 28.9% 23.7%
45 to 64 25.6% 27.3%
65 to 84 11.5% 15.1%
85 + 0.6% 2%
THIS Place
Facilities
2 Council owned Primary Schools
Council owned Community Centre, Library and Local Office
1 Health Clinic
Community run facilities such as Cowie Bowling Club and
Cowie Miners Welfare Club
Various shops and church
THIS Place
Active Local Community
Cowie Community Council
CRAG – Cowie Regeneration Action Group
Cowie Community Enterprise
Cowie Credit Union
Cowie United FC
THIS Place
So what’s been happening?
New Berryhills Football Pitch
Cowie Primary School Refurbishment
New St. Margaret's Primary School
New Nursery
New Skate Park
What’s next?....Regeneration?
Getting there: You got there!
THIS Place
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?
THIS Place
BUT THAT FUTURE DIDN’T HAPPEN! Why?
Getting there: Oops!
What were the barriers and blocks to your future?
… we don’t use them properly?… we have no tools?
Does place leadership fail because …
Common Purpose
To shape places, we need effective policy
tools
How well stocked is our
policy toolbox?
How well used in our
policy toolbox?
Common Purpose
What might we expect to find in the well-
stocked policy toolbox?
‘Shaping’
instruments
‘Capacity
building’
instruments
‘Regulating’
instruments
‘Stimulus’
instruments
Common Purpose
• 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
Common Purpose
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
Common Purpose
Stimulus toolsOpen up opportunities by ‘making
things happen’ through:
Actions to kick-start development
by direct state intervention
Development grants, taxation
incentives and other price-adjusting
actions
Holistic place management and
other risk-reducing actions
Public-private partnerships and
other capital-raising actions
Common Purpose
Capacity building tools
Learn to think afresh, be open to new ideas, and learn from best practice
Gain knowledge & information, especially about market actors & operations
Build networks & relationships across the public, private & voluntary sectors
Develop skills & capabilities in leadership, project management & cross-sectoral working
Local leaders will:
Common Purpose
Leadership capacity
Strategic
Capacity
MotivationEmbed
Learning
Salient Knowledge
Professor Marshall Ganz
Good leaders seek 'strategic
capacity' in the organisations the
lead:
knowledge of what matters
learning embedded in
everything the organisation
does
strong motivation conveyed
from the leaders to everyone
Common Purpose
The Story of your future part 3
THIS Place
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?
Leadership is taking responsibility
for enabling others to achieve shared
purpose in the face of uncertainty
Common PurposeProfessor Marshall Ganz
The Story of your future Getting Started
THIS Place
Tell the story of getting from now till then …….
So what happens now?
this place matters
re-thinking local leadership
REFLECTIONS Feedback and Learning
COWIE
Diarmaid Lawlor
THIS Place
We have history. But, not
everyone shares it…not
everyone part of things.
It’s where I work, part of
my job, and colleagues
from Cowie
We want a good future for
our kids. And drugs are a
big problem…people
make choices
It’s where I am from..
Cowie matters
because…
THIS Place
Feels like a place of
Parts AND worried
about being
overwhelmed
Services not joining
up AND people not
connecting
BUT
THIS Place
BUT
Services not
joining up AND
people not
connecting
Feels like a place of
Parts AND worried
about being
overwhelmed
THIS Place
BUT
Services not
joining up AND
people not
connecting
Distance to
services….who is
here?
Where is
continuity?Knowledge
of
community
Feels like a place of
Parts AND worried
about being
overwhelmed
THIS Place
BUT
Services not
joining up AND
people not
connecting
Needs driven services.
BUT, why would you
report things [drugs]
and face hassle.
Fear. Exposure
Distance to
services….who is
here?
Where is
continuity?Knowledg
e of
community
Feels like a place of
Parts AND worried
about being
overwhelmed
THIS Place
More than Stirling
average: children
Less than Stirling
average: older
From projects to
regeneration?
THIS Place
More than Stirling
average: children
Less than Stirling
average: older
From projects to
regeneration?
Drugs
Fun days
Connections
Fear
Community
knowledge
Co-ordination
THIS Place
collaboration
Bins, street cleaning
Basic services
Basic contact
Issues not getting lost
Building relationships with
businesses
sponsorship
Lack of communication
Council: community
Continuity in point of
contact
THIS Place
A safe community…. An example for other places…
• Zero drugs, zero crime
• Opportunities to thrive
• More employment
• Attractive, valued, used
environment
• Main street focus, nice place
• More co-ordination on public
investment
• Community hub with eastern
villages
• Somewhere people come to,
services joining up
• A learning place
• We can do it
THIS Place
Centre:
proper place to meet
New businesses
Pedestrian space
Improved shops/mixed use Expansion
serviced
services
THIS Place
Stories:
Whole community
Visual impacts
Murals telling stories Expansion
serviced
Community shop;
recharge revenue
walks
THIS Place
IDEAS BLOCKAGESHOW
Enabling
public
sector
Shared space
[forum]Shared
leadership
Needs
driven
facilities +
services
THIS Place
People talk, not deliver.
Action + responsibility
Not enough sources of
help + resources
Lack of effective
communication AND
joined up action
Unclear vision and buy in
[joined up]
AND
Fear of change
Threats to
future
THIS Place
Not enough sources of
help + resourcesINDIVIDUALISM
COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY
Threats to
future
THIS Place
10 years….…..
Feelings….
prosperous
accomplished
shared public space
cohesive
vibrantexcellent
encouraging
Derelict?
THIS Place
How….…..
Feelings….
involving
empowering
our commitment
need to change
partnershipcommunity ambition
passion + drive
strategy
investment
Shared leadership forum.
Who, how often?
Now
THIS Place
next…..
COMMUNICATION
• one step at a time
• all takes time
• prioritise
Proper plan with actions and
accountability
• Council bosses
• Community council
• investors