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The 2025 Place Management Conference
A Crisis in Local Government Finance
A discussion on the funding crisis within the place management industry and the implications for managing and investing in town and city centres. Now open for bookings.
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When: Wednesday, 26th February 2025 10.30am-5pm
Where: Euston, London
Book your place now. Just £95 (+VAT) for members of ATCM
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Have we reached a crisis point in how we invest in high streets, town centres and city centres?
Multiple economic shocks since the turn of the century, rapid technological change and an ageing population have created a toxic fiscal environment. The result is the suffocation of funding for place management.
The impacts are multiple. Reduced allocation of resource for town centre management, cuts to arts, culture and events, gaps in service for maintenance and street cleaning, fewer police, blockages in the planning pipeline, a reliance on ad hoc government grants for regeneration - the challenges are endless.
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And these challenges go beyond our local government members, impacting BIDs who have to wrestle with an existential threat to ‘additionality’. It's time to take stock.
The next ATCM Place Management Conference will focus on the challenges we face in funding the day-to-day job of supporting town centres. We will ask how things have changed and how we need to adapt accordingly.
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Join us for the first big event of 2025.
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Paying by invoice? Then contact our membership manager, Karen Shields for a booking form.
