Mary Portas has been appointed to lead an independent review into the future of the High Street, The Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister announced today.



The purpose of the review will be to identify what government, local authorities and businesses can do to promote the development of more prosperous and diverse high streets.



It will also form part of the Government’s wider Growth Review which is examining how we can remove the barriers to achieve strong, sustainable… Continue

Exmouth Market is open for business today with Popose! running a week of events as part of their pop up think tank. The space has already attracted close to 20 people interested in talking about social enterprise and is making quite a noise over the internet.

The space has been completely transformed with Popse!…

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Over the next month The Architecture Foundation, together with the South Kilburn Neighbourhood Trust, Brent Council and Practice Architecture will be regenerating the site of 2a Canterbury Road in South Kilburn, London transforming this building into a series of studio spaces available to those in the…

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This is an old tyre shop in South London that a group of us are looking to turn in to a popular co-operative supermarket. We're raising funding just now from public and private sources to do the place up.



I'll post some pictures over the next few days but as part of our market research in to its future use, this weekend we are at a big local Country Fair and about twenty volunteers are hawking around a questionnaire asking people… Continue