by Dr Steve Millington and Tom Hindmarch
Withington has been in the news of late, mainly thanks to the Withington Walls project and the completion of a Marcus Rashford mural in the Village (featured on Match on the Day). This is an example of one several projects instigated by a highly effective local partnership, which the IPM has been working with as part of the INTERREG funded project – ABCitEs.
This project, involving a network of five municipality-university partnerships across the EU (Amsterdam, Athens, Manchester, Varaždin/Čakovec, and Vilnius), provides an opportunity for each of the cities to exchange ideas and knowledge about ABCE (Area-Based Collaborative Enterprise). Each partnership is analysing how local traders and other place-based stakeholders collaborate to bring about place-based improvements to the local business environment. Findings from the project are informing the development of new policy guidance, which will enable each local authority to better support clusters of local businesses in places such as local high streets.
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