How can property developers support local cultural decision making?

Cultural DevolutionThe Future of Cultural Devolution in the UK
Written By Culture Commons

Insight Paper

Author

Alanna Reid

Description

This insight paper explores how property developers can play a more active role in local cultural decision-making and culture-led placemaking. Drawing on a roundtable with leading figures from the built environment and creative sectors—including Urban Splash, Stories, and the Sheffield Property Association—it examines how purposeful partnerships, socially responsible development models, and blended funding approaches can embed culture within regeneration and planning. The paper highlights growing recognition that cultural infrastructure and programming make places more successful, resilient and inclusive, and sets out policy implications for fostering collaboration between developers, local authorities and cultural stakeholders within a devolved policy landscape.

Published as part of The Future of Cultural Devolution in the UK.

August 2024

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