{"id":47248,"date":"2026-07-03T16:42:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T15:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=47248"},"modified":"2026-07-03T16:42:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T15:42:29","slug":"pubs-shops-and-local-assets-protected-with-communities-in-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=47248","title":{"rendered":"Pubs, shops and local assets protected with communities in charge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"643\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-47250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image.jpeg 960w, https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-300x201.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-768x514.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-9badf3d015dfdc24ba5a06540e5f3430 wp-block-paragraph\"><em>image for illustration: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Community_Pub,_West_Wemyss_-_geograph.org.uk_-_6157717.jpg\">Community Pub, West Wemyss,\u00a0Bill Kasman, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Government UK reports on a \u00a361m fund to encourage people to save treasured local assets announced as part of a set of reforms to put more power in the hands of communities<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Government UK writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u00a361 million fund to encourage local people to step in and save pubs, shops and other community gems<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Communities Secretary Steve Reed announces cash boost in part of a wider \u00a3301 million package to support high streets, drive community control and back local people<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Package builds on wider \u00a35.8 billion Pride in Place programme, handing real power and money to local people who know their areas best<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pubs, shops and other treasured high street gems will be saved from closure more easily thanks to a new \u00a361 million package to back local communities announced on 16 June.&nbsp; This government\u2019s latest Pride in Place initiative, a new Community Right to Buy Fund, will hand people in deprived areas the money they need to step in and take over community assets at risk of closure otherwise \u2013 allowing pints to continue flowing and community centres to keep bringing people together in their areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Communities Secretary Steve Reed announced the investment at a speech in London earlier today as part of a package of measures, building on wider reforms in the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act to allow people to take over treasured assets. This funding is part of the \u00a3301 million announced by the government to support our high streets and community spaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Further action was committed to on tackling profiteering in the temporary accommodation and children\u2019s social care sector, allowing councils to spend taxpayers\u2019 money on what local people want to see, alongside making it easier for social housing tenants to take control over their homes.&nbsp; These reforms build on the government\u2019s commitment to shift more power out of Westminster and empower communities, including through the \u00a35.8 billion Pride in Place programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Communities Secretary Steve Reed said: \u2018I am pushing power out of Whitehall and into the hands of the people who actually use these high streets. They know what they need better than any politician in Whitehall. We\u2019re backing communities to step in and save these high street gems, building on our drive to give communities the key to their own future and power over what matters to them.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Communities Secretary also announced:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Streamlining Right to Manage: Supporting social housing tenants to come together, take control of their homes and estates, and make housing managers accountable to the people who live there. Reforms include stronger enforcement action where serious mismanagement puts residents\u2019 safety at risk, as well as calling on social landlords to encourage tenants to take up the Right to Manage.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Test and Learn funding: The Test, Learn and Grow programme is putting people at the centre, starting small and building on what works \u2013 empowering frontline staff and local places to respond to what users need. Crucially, it is also about growing this way of working. To build regional capability and ensure that learning from the programme is diffused across the country, a \u00a310 million Test, Learn and Grow Capability Fund is being launched to support up to 20 places. The fund will first be targeted at those already involved in the programme, with a specific focus on extending learning beyond individual local authorities and across sub-regions, through Mayoral Strategic Authorities and clusters of local authorities working together. It will then expand to new locations later in the autumn.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Community Power Pilots: Supporting community groups and local authorities in up to 25 areas with \u00a315 million in funding to transform services for residents with their input.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Commitment to tackling profiteering: The government will work with councils in London to compare the prices of temporary accommodation, stopping companies exploiting different parts of the state. Further action will also be taken in the children\u2019s social care sector where profiteering off vulnerable children is leaving councils on the brink.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Commitment to support better use of local data: Ineffective data sharing is hampering local authorities from delivering better, more joined up services. To fix this, DSIT is developing standardised data sharing agreements for central government and wider public sector, including local governments to use, reducing administrative burdens and speeding up processes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/pubs-shops-and-local-assets-protected-with-communities-in-charge\">Read more here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>image for illustration: Community Pub, West Wemyss,\u00a0Bill Kasman, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Government UK reports on a \u00a361m fund to encourage people to save treasured local assets announced as part of a set of reforms to put more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=47248\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[368,62,9,848],"class_list":["post-47248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog","tag-communities","tag-funding","tag-government","tag-pubs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47251,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47248\/revisions\/47251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}