If you were allowed just one word to describe your town or city centre, what would it be…?
Do please let me know yours.
It’s not easy, huh…?
The challenge wasn’t my idea and it’s not one I’d come across before until what was an insightful, enjoyable, encouraging meeting in Cinderford to share thoughts about the town as it is and priorities moving forward.
The question set me thinking about some of the other locations we’re working with local teams on tackling highstreet vacancy, what word we’d get to for them and more importantly the words ‘place partnership’ members there would list.
A really interesting extra talking point to emerge from the meeting was what suggestions might you get if the question was asked of residents and business owners on local social media platforms.
Similarly if you did a visitor survey of people in your town or city centre for the day or overnight, what single word would they use to describe it.
Now you might think that placemaking is far too complex a subject for these answers to be much, if any, use but having experienced it here and reflecting on the 20+ one words that emerged, I do think it’s interesting.
Over to you…
