Matt Leach | @mattleach.bsky.social @matt_leach

CEO at @BuidingCentre. Member of the Independent Commission on Neighbourhoods.. Increasingly at @mattleach.bsky.social buildingcentre.co.uk London, Greater London GB Joined November 2008

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Independent Commission on Neighbourhoods @iconeighbours

2 months ago

Released today, ICON’s latest Policy Working Paper, Mapping the Landscape of Place-Based Initiatives in England, 2019-2025, delves into the impact of neighbourhood regeneration efforts in recent years: neighbourhoodscommission.org.uk/report/mapping…

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Ross Mudie @RMudie96

3 months ago

🚨 NEW report! In which we @iconeighbours start to unpack how the most disadvantaged neighbourhoods in England have experienced change over the course of the 21st century…. neighbourhoodscommission.org.uk/report/progres…

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Independent Commission on Neighbourhoods @iconeighbours

3 months ago

Join the Independent Commission on Neighbourhoods on the 19th of June in Westminster to learn more about how neighbourhoods have changed over the last 15 years. ICON will be launching a new report exploring how and why some neighbourhoods have improved over recent years, while…

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Ross Mudie @RMudie96

3 months ago

Not too late to sign up for our event next week but tickets are flying out - get em now! We'll reflect on some of our early findings looking through 20 years of data on the most disadvantaged neighbourhoods, reflecting on the Spending Review, and more. x.com/iconeighbours/…

Independent Commission on Neighbourhoods @iconeighbours

3 months ago

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Ben Glover @bengglover

3 months ago

Detailed analysis to follow but a *big* day for @iconeighbours: £500 million secured for New Deal for Communities-style investment, targeting mission critical neighbourhoods.

Independent Commission on Neighbourhoods @iconeighbours

3 months ago

Detailed analysis to follow but a *big* day for @iconeighbours: £500 million secured for New Deal for Communities-style investment, targeting mission critical neighbourhoods.

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Ross Mudie @RMudie96

3 months ago

"I am calling for a project of national renewal for our neighbourhoods, designed to work with communities, to rebuild from the ground up, and to restore hope and dignity back to our places. That must be the great mission of our Government" @Sureena4WNE expressandstar.com/your-world/202…

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Community Wealth Fund @CommWealthFund

3 months ago

ICYMI: Yesterday the government released details of its Dormant Assets Scheme Strategy 🎉 This has confirmed that the CWF will target doubly disadvantaged communities experiencing high levels of deprivation and low social capital (1/3)

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Andrew O'Brien @ADOBrien88

3 months ago

Strong speech from @PollyBLabour on the need for coastal communities to get the support they need. Half the mission critical neighbourhoods we have identified at @iconeighbours are on the coast. We need to give places like Newington Estate we visited priority.

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Andrew O'Brien @ADOBrien88

3 months ago

Thanks to @lukeakehurst for raising the work of @iconeighbours today in Westminster Hall and the work of Baroness Armstrong. He is right, the data is there. We know who needs support. We need policy to focus on neighbourhoods like Stanley in North Durham.

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Ben Glover @bengglover

3 months ago

Great @guardian discussion of @iconeighbours work - with a very good headline that I agree with! theguardian.com/commentisfree/… @DavidHalpernCBE @matt_leach @DaniellePalmour @KiMcGuinness @FrancisAlun

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RuskinOxford @RuskinOxford

3 months ago

📕Making Equal Section Three: Making Places Matter The third section of Making Equal looks at how spatial inequality impacts regional and local communities in the UK @matt_leach, Ian Taylor,@taylor_abigail1 PRE-ORDER: bookstore.emerald.com/making-equal-p… @RISE_Oxford @EmeraldGlobal

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Independent Commission on Neighbourhoods @iconeighbours

4 months ago

ICON today launches its Green Paper – twenty proposals to deliver neighbourhood renewal. You can read the full Green Paper and respond to the public consultation on our proposals here:neighbourhoodscommission.org.uk/report/icons-n…

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Ross Mudie @RMudie96

4 months ago

Big day for @iconeighbours tomorrow. 👀

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John P. Houghton @HopeStStrategy

4 months ago

We need to a new wave of neighbourhood renewal to show that democracy can deliver. We know how to do it; do we have the will? medium.com/@HopeStreetEss… #housing #regeneration #place #HopeStreetEssays #highstreets #urbanism #cities

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The Young Foundation @the_young_fdn

5 months ago

@matt_leach reflects on the findings of Community, not catastrophe, a report that calls for networks of trust, mutual aid, volunteering, community support, and civil society to urgently be recognised as ‘critical national infrastructure’ in UK crisis preparedness planning 👇

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Bright Blue @WeAreBrightBlue

5 months ago

@matt_leach reflects on how local areas that recover quicker from crises are not those that had the big capital projects but the places that had high-levels of social infrastructure.

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Matt Leach | @mattleach.bsky.social @matt_leach

5 months ago

Delighted to be joining @RupaHuq and @JonCruddas_1 as inaugural fellows at @RuskinOxford - it’s a fantastic institution with a rich and important history, and a strong vision for the future focused on addressing issues of place-based inequality, education, skills and work through…

RuskinOxford @RuskinOxford

5 months ago

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Independent Commission on Neighbourhoods @iconeighbours

6 months ago

ICON’s Interim Report sets out the 613 mission critical neighbourhoods most at risk of not meeting the government’s 5 missions for national renewal. Without targeted interventions to these areas the government will fail to meet its promise of a decade of renewal.

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Ross Mudie @RMudie96

6 months ago

Which parts of the country are furthest away from making a real contribution to the government's missions agenda? On all missions bar energy, "doubly disadvantaged" areas - those that are highly deprived, with low social infrastructure/social capital - are much further behind

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Andrew O'Brien @ADOBrien88

6 months ago

Excellent roundtable this morning at the launch of the interim report for @iconeighbours. A lot of energy around getting government to think neighbourhoods as we have called for in our report. You can read the interim report here: neighbourhoodscommission.org.uk/report/interim…