Research strategy, steering groups and programmes
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| Project Title | Project Aims |
| Intelligence Reports | To make established evidence base more accessible to practitioners and decision-makers. Three published to date. |
| Occasional Research Reports (working title) | To disseminate RENEW NW-generated research findings. Starting summer 06. |
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| Project Title | Project Aims |
| Regeneration and Good Practice report – making it a habit in the West Midlands | This report summarises a year of diverse work into what constitutes good practice. There are reflections on the findings and recommendations on how organisations can improve their practice. Completed Aug 05. Download report from regenWM website. |
| SELD pages of RegenWM website | Disseminating good practice in use of evidence for NR practitioners, including resource catalogue, FAQs and event writeups. |
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| Project Title | Project Aims |
| Planning for non-planners | To explain the current planning system. To clarify the ways in which groups and individuals can have a voice. Sessions in 2006. |
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| Project Title | Project Aims |
| Research/best practice development and dissemination into designing out crime and the conflicts between policy/advice eg DCLG/Home Office | Want to commission this piece of work in Sept 06 (subject to funding) to provide consistent advice to planners/local authorities/police about design and crime reduction. Taking cross-occupational view to learning developing shared understanding. |
| Excellence Framework | A practical web-based tool which helps to define excellence in sustainable communities through the use of standards. |
| Health issues | Standards/measures for achieving/addressing health issues as part of sustainable communities have been built into the Excellence Framework. The Design Review Panel has a health rep to ensure public health issues are considered as an integral part of the design process. Sept 06. |
| 2 toolkits | Developed to demonstrate good practice and provide tools for community engagement in the built environment. One developed by Shape Cambridge on how to involve your community. One developed by Rural Community Council for Essex on statutory planning and how community-led plans can contribute to them. Mar 06. |
| Market Place event | To showcase community engagement tools. To increase knowledge across all sectors/occupations of available tools and techniques. Planned for early 07. |
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| Project Title | Project Aims |
| No research at the moment. This will be determined with the steering group. Business Plan to be agreed by Board in Sept. | |
| Steering Group. | Chair appointed (Phil Hughes) Steering group has three standing org. members plus up to eight additional members. Recruitment commenced. |
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| Project Title | Project Aims |
| REM hosts both Intelligence East Midlands (Regional Observatory) and Association of Regional Observatories | To improve access to research and intelligence on the region to inform policy-making, promote good practice in research and facilitate research coordination. ARO brings together the regional observatories and similar bodies in England and promotes the provision and use of the best data for England’s regions. Ongoing. |
| Regional Cultural Observatory | Planned to address cultural sector information needs. To be hosted by REM alongside other observatory functions. Autumn 06. |
| Opun | Dialogues series and impact of regional design review on place-making (evaluation underway soon). March 06. |
