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Advice: Promoting a coherent leisure offer in the high street
With traditional retailing in decline, councils need to be taking a strategic approach to leisure in order to attract people into town centres, writes Ben Kochan.
Review: Re-use of model factory as new neighbourhood
With its mix of uses, redevelopment of Cadbury's Keynsham factory site has the ingredients of a successful neighbourhood, but it needs a central space, finds Neil Harvie.
Advice: Tackling large vacant high street stores
Close working between local authorities and store owners is needed to promote new uses for large vacant shops, writes Ben Kochan.
Review: Town centre redevelopment
Bracknell's Lexicon town centre redevelopment has overcome some of the new town legacy, but more work is needed to the station complex, finds Carol Darling.
Review: A redeveloped hospital site
The local vision for a former hospital site was not fully realised, but the final Woodside Square scheme still imaginatively mixes new and old buildings, finds Clare San Martin.
Opinion: The balance of power is shifting in estate regeneration debate
The voice of the community is going to be louder when it comes to placemaking in estate demolition schemes in London in the future.
Review: A redeveloped shopping centre
Oxford's new Westgate centre has extended the retail offer in the city centre, but links with surrounding areas and public space are lacking, finds Roger Evans.
Opinion: Will homes in industrial estates ever work?
The draft London Plan's stress on density, a function of the mayor's contradictory desires to double housing output while ruling out incursions into the green belt, has been much discussed. But a lower profile has been given to another attempt to square this circle - namely, the drive to see residential development within industrial areas.
Opinion: Social housing versus placemaking
Potential tensions between need for social homes, grant availability and placemaking aspirations will be hard to resolve in densifying London's estates, writes Chris Brown.
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