High Street recovery
The High Streets Task Force has published a report on footfall in high streets and district centres in 2020-2021 and what influences recovery. The trend shows a shift from retail to multifunctional high streets.
The NLA published a report ‘Local London’ on 1st December 2021 for building resilient neighbourhoods which demonstrates how our high streets and town centres can integrate a new mix of uses, enhance public realm, improve infrastructure and ultimately strengthen the capital’s polycentricity.
The LUHC Committee published a report on High Street recovery and how the Government must learn the related lessons from Covid-19.
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Planning in London, Issue 137, April-June 2026
Design Planning Practice Guidance
Cost-of-living crisis
Densifying the Suburbs – A presenter’s Insight
Our President, Ben Derbyshire, provides his Insights into our recent Densifying the Suburbs event.
I welcomed the invitation to speak at an [more…]
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Using AI in your Civic Society
📆 Thu 30th April | 18:30 - 20:30
🚩 77 Cowcross Street, EC1M 6EL (map)
Artificial Intelligence is everywhere in the news and in business these days – we even used it to generate the image for this event. How can it help your civic society ? Do you need to be an expert? (No!) Civic societies are often under-resourced, and at this event we’ll show that with a little knowledge, illustrated with examples, AI can bolster your resources in several useful ways, without necessarily spending a penny. Please book here ( https://www.londonforum.org.uk/events/using-ai-in-your-civic-society#booking ). Agenda Firstly by way of introduction, we’ll look at some novel…
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Member Services Committee meeting
📅 Thu 7th May | 14:00 - 16:00
🚩 Room B1 70 Cowcross St, EC1M 6EJ (map)


