The Localism Act 2011 has provided the right for community organizations to nominate local buildings to be listed as an … activists thereby challenging those who would suggest localism is more rhetoric than real. Third, by reviewing a single case of …

Little has been written from the practitioner’s perspective about the discourses of localism permeating local … through the Localism Act (House of Commons, 2011). As such, this paper fills a gap by reviewing the practicalities of the … neighbourhood development plan (NDP) process; a localism tool heralded as a mechanism to allow local communities to choose where …

localism, in the absence of a national strategy and infrastructure funding, using the case study of a recent evaluation of the …

. Government policies, most notably David Cameron’s Big Society initiative, have entrenched the concept of localism across the UK …€˜opening up’ of the social innovation process and raises some timely questions about the efficacy of localism policy measures. …