Discussion on the DCMS Committee's 'Cultural Placemaking Strategy and the 'Level-Up' Policy
The Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre (PEC) is playing a pivotal role in shaping the future of the UK's cultural landscape. This independent research organisation is providing crucial evidence and policy recommendations to help rejuvenate public spaces, enhance local decision-making, and support leveling up funding for arts and culture.
The PEC has made significant contributions in various areas, including researching creative clusters and place-based regeneration, supporting local authorities with levelling up resources, informing place-based cultural programmes, fostering sustainable and innovative creative practices, and mapping and monitoring sector impact.
One of the key areas of focus for the PEC is understanding how creative businesses cluster together geographically and the impact of these "creative clusters" on innovation, local economies, and cultural vibrancy. This research helps policymakers identify areas where the creative industries can stimulate regeneration of public spaces and commercial areas like shopping streets.
The PEC also offers tailored data and evidence to help local authorities maximize the impact of levelling up funding by integrating creative industry strategies into local development plans. This empowers better local decision-making about arts, culture, and economic renewal.
Through policy briefings and partnership reports, the PEC highlights frameworks for collaboration across regions, supporting cultural and economic regeneration to revive communities post-pandemic and beyond. The organisation also partners with organisations like Julie’s Bicycle to promote sustainability in the creative sector, aligning cultural growth with environmental goals that impact local spaces and communities.
By producing sectoral reports and geo-spatial analyses, the PEC equips stakeholders with insights to advocate for funding and to design place-sensitive cultural interventions that drive social and economic benefits.
In addition to these efforts, the PEC has made representations to the Autumn Spending Review and responded to the Integrated Review: A new era of soft power?. The organisation's ongoing work demonstrates its commitment to shaping the future of the UK's cultural landscape and ensuring that the creative industries play a significant role in reactivating public and commercial spaces, improving local governance for arts, and ensuring effective allocation of levelling up funds towards cultural regeneration and inclusive economic growth.
- The Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre (PEC) focuses on understanding how creative businesses cluster geographically and the impact of these clusters on innovation, local economies, and cultural vibrancy.
- The PEC provides crucial evidence and policy recommendations to help rejuvenate public spaces, enhance local decision-making, and support leveling up funding for arts and culture.
- The PEC has contributed significantly to researching creative clusters, place-based regeneration, and fostering sustainable and innovative creative practices.
- The PEC offers tailored data and evidence to help local authorities maximize the impact of levelling up funding by integrating creative industry strategies into local development plans.
- Through partnerships with organizations like Julie’s Bicycle, the PEC promotes sustainability in the creative sector, aligning cultural growth with environmental goals that impact local spaces and communities.
- The PEC has made representations to the Autumn Spending Review and responded to the Integrated Review: A new era of soft power, demonstrating its commitment to shaping the future of the UK's cultural landscape.
- By producing reports and analyses, the PEC equips stakeholders with insights to advocate for funding and to design place-sensitive cultural interventions that drive social and economic benefits.
