Vale of leven Presentation

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

Diarmaid Lawlor

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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

Diarmaid Lawlor


THIS Place: what you said

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THIS Place

THIS Place

Assets

THIS Place

Assets

Collaboration

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Assets

Collaboration

Associations

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• Alexandria Precinct• ‘walk in any direction’

• hills in 10 minutes• Fantastic natural assets

• Greenspace resources

• Less literally: image• Long & continuing association with industry

• Historic and inward investment

• Aggreko manufacturing facility

• Award winning building

• State of the art facility for local population

• Collaborative dual purpose

• Regeneration effects

assets collaboration associations

connections

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Storytelling

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Storytelling

Health

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Storytelling

Health

AbsencePotential

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storytelling health potential

alignment• Bad outlook for visitors• Through way for traffic• Sealife/freshwater?• Storytelling of rich heritage?

• Advertised attraction/ crumbling

• Poor quality retail/Empty

• Undervalued natural assets

• Unrealised• Eyesore• Needs regenerated• What internal and external impact?

• Bad design• Lack of maintenance• Dampness• Deterioration

assets collaboration association


Workshop


Why does THIS place matter?

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Why does this place matter?

Say why this place matters to you today

THIS Place

And find the things that matter to you all

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Where are we going?

In practice, who is leading here now?

THIS Place

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?

THIS Place

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?

THIS Place

And how does all that about Vale of Leven make you feel?

In practice, who is leading?

THIS Place Common PurposeProfessor Marshall Ganz

Uncertainty

Hope

Where are we going?

strateg

y

analysis

HOW?

storymotivation

WHY?

Head Heart

Action

Common Purpose

Two ways of understanding:

Professor Marshall Ganz

green

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

VER

CO

MES

Common Purpose

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

CO

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UNITY U

RGEN

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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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

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 & 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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THIS Place

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


THIS Place

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

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


Key Local Issues

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Peter BarryHead of Customer & Community Services: West Dunbartonshire Council

THIS Place

• A new joined up approach to local services and communities• Improve the coordination and responsiveness of local

services with an emphasis on efficiency• Support the development of empowered and engaged

communities active in the design and delivery of services to the area

• Alexandria Pilot Sept 14 – March 15• Key issues in pilot:- anti-social behaviour, back courts, waste

management• Wider issues: employment and training, housing, health

Neighbourhood Management

What is Neighbourhood Management?

Workshop


How did we get there?

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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?

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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 …

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 interventionDevelopment grants, taxation incentives and other price-adjusting actionsHolistic place management and other risk-reducing actionsPublic-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 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:

Common Purpose

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

Common Purpose

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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?

Workshop


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

THIS Place

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

So what happens now?


REFLECTIONS Feedback and Learning

Diarmaid Lawlor

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Why the Vale matters…

• Generations of families• Success• Opportunities

• People & place: resilience

• Services and facilities• Do we have the

mechanisms?

• Great place to live & work

• Do we have the ambition?

• Home: expect good.• Is it?• What should better look

like?

histories

expectation

potential

ambition

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Leadership and collaboration here is about..…

• Expectation - the council/public agencies

• Can’t work on our own• Need strategic partners• A regeneration group?

• Enabling and invisible leadership

• Building capacity• Making space• Community participation

partners

roles

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• Expectation=the council/public agencies

• Can’t work on our own• Need strategic partners• A regeneration group?

• Think big BUT…• need results• Sporadic collaboration• Capitalising on opportunities

‘in between’

• Long term relationship• Sustaining relationships• Feeding back what works:

impacts• Roles change over time

• Enabling and invisible leadership

• Building capacity• Making space• Community participation

partners

rolesrelationships

results

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Leadership and collaboration here is [?] about..…

structures

impacts

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Feelings…..

anxious

disappointed

optimistic

uncertain

curious protective

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It’s about ‘enabling’‘capacities’ and ‘the long haul’…a common identity

Who is leading, and what collaboration…

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So, where are the spaces to do this. Here?

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Support services

Local services

Your community

WDC Neighbourhood management model…

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Trust AND credibility

Share ambition with community

Public sector demonstrates: can change, can listen, can join up, can act

AND

Challenge and support communities to do more for themselves

If WE put in a bit more effort -better results when we make the ask of communities

what

how

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Trust AND credibility

Share ambition with community

Public sector demonstrates: can change, can listen, can join up, can act

AND

Challenge and support communities to do more for themselves

If WE put in a bit more effort - better results when we make the ask of communities

Alexandria pilot

Anti social behaviour• Didn’t have right intelligence• People too frightened• Delegated responsibility

Back courts• Little work, high impacts• Huge transformation• People using

Waste management• Education and support to

help those who need it AND get messages across

THIS Place

IF its about the ‘long haul’, then…

• Long term relationship• Sustaining relationships• Feeding back what works:

impacts• Roles change over time

relationships

the starting point is people

futures


A vibrant successful town. Work opportunities for all, events, creativity, know our heritage. Leaders working because they could make a difference. Community attracting people

1


Busy, attractive, still relatively small town; attractive to visitors, not because of an attraction: attractive place to spend time; people came back more than once; and more people want to live here. An attractive and happy place

2


Grandfathers live here, and grandkids stay near by. A place of choice, community feel. People aspire to stay here.

3


People enjoy their community, can achieve and use their skills

4

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IF it’s about ‘enabling’‘capacities’ and ‘the long haul’…a common identity

assetscollaboration association


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Complicated questionslessons learned at the RUHR

Sustainable management at the RUHR is based on voluntary inter-local & regional Co-Operation

- is possible

- needs visions and projects

- needs moderation and informal management

- asks for qualities in different fields

- is based on peoples trust

re-think realities

Vibrant, connected, scenic• Cultural heritage• Enhance older communities• Events• River and cycle path, connections

Unique brand• Everyone knows• A starter location• A place that’s really interesting to walk

around: public art• Regeneration, derelict land, asset

management

Network of community spaces• Community spaces hosting local services• Mixed services: support, trades• River and landscape connect service places

Connected attractive• Attractive town centres• Connections to attractive landscapes• Excellent ordinary services• Learning as we go and from other places

Champions…

• Local authority backing• Local action [Berlin]

and met half way

• Targeting place priorities

• Action updated year by year: proof and impact

• Common vision and identity

• Physical upgrade of housing and natural assets

• Collaborative structures made visible

catalyst

collaborative

incremental

identity

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Failure..…

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• No common vision• Political conflcts• Failure of storytelling• Good leadership but

problems down the line

• Unrealistic fantasy offer• Too much, too long, too

hard

• Didn’t fail: just take longer to get there. Don’t get knocked off course

• People resist change

• Outside interference• Poor resource

management; not resources

common purpose

local decisions

reality

determination

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opportunity

Do. Learn. Do more

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Our future…..

homely

unique

vibrant

working

happier investment

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kicked off by…..

vision

determination

desire for better

brilliant plan

Held to account collaboration

Awareness /capabilities

trust

champion

communication

common identity


INFORMATION

www.thisplacematters.org.uk

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