{"id":46,"date":"2023-09-07T13:50:10","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T12:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hosting.northumbria.ac.uk\/urbangreenspacegovernance\/?page_id=46"},"modified":"2025-11-05T17:01:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T17:01:14","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hosting.northumbria.ac.uk\/urbangreenspacegovernance\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"46\" class=\"elementor elementor-46\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-e56df42 elementor-section-content-middle elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-items-middle\" data-id=\"e56df42\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d88a872\" data-id=\"d88a872\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0931046 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"0931046\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"> Innovation, Co-Governance and Democracy in Urban Greenspaces<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1ce8519 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"1ce8519\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-medium\">Transforming Understanding and Responses to the Challenges<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1d02cdc elementor-section-content-middle elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1d02cdc\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3db4628\" data-id=\"3db4628\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-24fc6a0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"24fc6a0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">What is the Project About?<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8e30ad2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8e30ad2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Across the UK parks have faced significant local authority budget cuts, leading to poor investment, loss of park staff and overall decline. Yet the importance of parks for our well-being, nature and the environment is well recognised, and this prompted some local authorities to innovate through: (1) transferring management of one or more parks to a newly created park charity (management trust model), or (2) to working in close partnership with a charity which helps with fund raising and park improvements (foundation model).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\">These models offer valuable opportunities and benefits over traditional local authority park governance alone, including mobilising volunteering, additional<br \/>ring-fenced\u00a0funding for parks, improved park assets and services,\u00a0increased biodiversity,\u00a0and scope for innovation and, in some cases,\u00a0faster decision-making.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\">However,\u00a0they\u00a0also come with challenges. These include: lack of understanding of\u00a0these\u00a0new ways of working and how best to set them up for success, together with concerns about long-term sustainability, money-making through parks, and perceptions about a loss of democratic voice or accountability, particularly for trusts that take on park management and operate more at arms-length from local\u00a0electoral politics.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Innovation,\u00a0Co-Governance and Democracy in Urban Greenspaces&#8217; is a \u00a3118k British Academy\u00a0funded collaborative research project led by Dr Rachael Chapman at Northumbria\u00a0University, Newcastle Upon Tyne.\u00a0Through in-depth and comparative case\u00a0study research and knowledge exchange, it is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\">Enhancing understanding of these pioneering models of park provision and management, including about their drivers, achievements and process of setting them up and operating them<\/span>;<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-style: inherit; 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In some areas, management of specific parks has been transferred out of local authority control to a charitable park management trust. In others, local authorities have retained control and a foundation charity set up to help raise funds and facilitate park improvements. In Newcastle upon Tyne, following a 90% reduction in council spending on parks over 7 years, a radical and ambitious move was taken to transfer management of all 33 parks and 61 allotment sites out of local authority control to a newly established independent charity, Urban Green Newcastle (UGN) in 2019. <span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\">This research project grew out of a collaboration with UGN between 2019 and 2025. During that time the collaboration widened to include several other charity partners, both park foundations and management trusts across England, and the local authorities they work with. Much has been learnt&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">over the last six to twenty years&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\">from these pioneering models of park provision and management. This research is playing an important role in sharing that knowledge. In doing so, it aims to&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\">support new and ongoing park charity-local authority partnerships and developments, with a view to helping make our local parks thriving spaces for people, nature and the environment into the future.<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-a1851f9 elementor-section-content-middle elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"a1851f9\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f344f23\" data-id=\"f344f23\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-54b75a5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"54b75a5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Benefits and Impacts of the Project<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4184c3c elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4184c3c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul><li>Empowering policy-makers, local authorities and charities to make effective and informed parks policy and implementation decisions at national and local levels.\u00a0<\/li><li>Increased knowledge of new park management models, lessons, and good practice.\u00a0<\/li><li><span style=\"font-style: inherit; 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