About Us
Creating new communities involves far more than building homes and roads. It is the residents of a community that bring a place to life and help it to gain its own particular identity. Successful new communities of the future will be designed, developed and managed collaboratively by a wide variety of practitioners and future and existing residents. Therefore all plans for new places need to include robust strategies for residents to participate in the development and the long-term stewardship of the community. This website discusses some of the issues involved in making this a reality.
This resource was created by the Young Foundation, the result of a project which looked at what lessons could be learnt from previous regeneration projects - stories from the field - that would be useful for the practitioners
involved in building the new communities of the future. The focus of the project was to consider how best to build consideration for sustainable long-term stewardship into plans for new settlements.
The Young Foundation hosted a series of seminars drawing together representatives of various national agencies, local authorities, developers and third sector organisations to discuss the issues that are covered in this website. You can read more about these seminars, including the presentations made by the speakers at these events on the Young Foundation's website.
The authors of this site were:
Liz Bartlett, an Associate at the Young Foundation
Merron Simpson from Merron Simpson Consulting Limited
Christina Acosta, an intern at the Young Foundation
Corinne Cordes, a Research and Programme Support Coordinator at the Young Foundation
This site was created by Effusion