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Platform Places
@platformplaces.bsky.social
Unlocking town centre buildings for amazing ideas 🔑

Co-founding partners: High Streets Task Force, Power to Change, British Property Federation, New Local, Radix, Shoosmiths

https://www.platformplaces.com/
In your own neighbourhood, are you working towards...

💚 Safeguarding vital buildings & land for community use in perpetuity?
🏡 Unlocking the opportunity of new builds to deliver community projects?

Read CCDT's story & learn some of the tactics, from council relationships to Section 106s ⬇️

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Chichester Community Development Trust — Platform Places
Making inspiration-filled spaces that bring the neighbourhood to life – for connection, opportunity and cohesion
www.platformplaces.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:56 PM
...and have created 38 jobs, bringing ~£12 million in funding to Chichester, and reinvesting 74p in every £1 locally ✨

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November 6, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Since 2009, CCDT has transformed more than a dozen new, disused and underused spaces for community needs.

Owned and led by local residents and organisations, they work closely with Chichester District Council, developers, housing associations and funders.

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November 6, 2025 at 12:55 PM
b inspired has become a community anchor, championing the neighbourhood & its citizens to reach their full potential, promoting health & social wellbeing, & supporting community businesses to bring activities to life.

Find out how they did it ⬇️

#MycelialNetwork #MycelialNetworkCADs

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Spotlight on b inspired, Braunstone — Platform Places
How a community in Leicester is bringing empty and neglected buildings to life, to meet local needs & champion the neighbourhood’s potential
www.platformplaces.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
✳️ 75,000 sq ft (plus 4 football pitches) activated
✳️ 50 small businesses with affordable workspace
✳️ 4 families with quality, affordable housing
✳️ 130 young people using activities and services

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November 3, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Across the country, communities are transforming their places. They're meeting local needs & solving social & environmental challenges.

Yet so much more could be done, faster, if more rights & power were in community hands 🌱

Join the campaign ⬇️

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@powertochange.org.uk @locality.org.uk
Community power is the antidote to division and democratic decline  - We're Right Here
We're Right Here's new film sends an urgent message: community power is the antidote to division and democratic decline.
www.right-here.org
October 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
📢 "The Government is planning the biggest transfer of power out of Westminster in a generation.

But that power needs to go to local people, not just politicians.

People who really know their neighbourhoods and what they need to thrive" 📢

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October 22, 2025 at 4:43 PM