Enhancing our understanding of the longer-term best methodologies for evaluating the impact of different interventions, and the recent experiences of reform outside of England both across the UK and internationally, to inform our own reforms.
The lead contacts are: Lesley Smith, Senior Principal Research Officer, Analysis, Research and Co-ordination Unit, Analysis and Data Directorate: Lesley.Smith@levellingup.gov.uk and David Hughes, Head of the Chief Scientific Adviser’s office: psChiefScientificAdviser@levellingup.gov.uk.
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
"Cities throughout the world face long-term strategic challenges in delivering large-scale physical infrastructure development whilst addressing social and economic changes and challenges. In delivering such major p...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: UNIT 9 LIMITED
The project PROVIT - Planning Requirements Optioneering Visualisation Investment Tool addresses the role of the planning system in supporting levelling up by developing an investment simulation and optioneering platform that enables decision makers to create urban investment scenarios and assess their impact on existing systems and established KPIs.
This proposal identifies a work programme that addresses the requirements of the work for the ESRC Urban Transformations co-ordinator. The programme of work aims to curate the portfolio of investments in urban research b...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Oxford
Green Infrastructure (GI) has emerged as a multifunctional planning concept with potential to address urban planning challenges as "natural" assets. There is an weighty academic and policy literature in support...
Funded by: NERC
Lead research organisation: Northumbria University
The project Mainstreaming green infrastructure in planning policy and decision making: Translating NERC science into a co-produced spatial planning toolkit partially addresses the role of the planning system in supporting levelling up by focusing on the mainstreaming of green infrastructure in planning policy and decision making.