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This podcast series takes you on foot through towns and cities across the UK, telling the stories of major projects where community voices shaped real outcomes. Recorded while walking through the places themselves, each episode brings together the people behind the decisions to reflect honestly on what happened — the tensions, the trade-offs, and the lessons learned. No theory, no jargon. Just real conversations, in real places, about how communities, councils and partners work together to shape the places we live.

Recent Episodes

Legacy in Practice Ep 5 Broad Marsh with Sam Rosillo

Episode 5: Broad Marsh, Nottingham What does a public body do with the first year of owning a thirty-acre city-centre site, before a single planning application goes in? In Episode 5 of Legacy in Practice, we walk through Broad Marsh in Nottingham, one of the largest city-centre regeneration sites in the UK, tracing its journey from a stalled shopping-centre redevelopment to a flagship public-sector-led scheme. I'm joined by Sam Rosillo, Senior Planning and Land Manager at Homes England, who ...

22 MIN

Legacy in Practice Ep 4 Harlow with Matt Phillips

Episode 4 — Harlow & Gilston Garden Town What does it take to build a public conversation around a development that didn't yet exist — in a town with no local newspaper left to tell the story? In this episode of Legacy in Practice, Oliver Deed walks through Harlow town centre with Matt Phillips, Principal Communication and Engagement Officer at Harlow and Gilston Garden Town. The project spans five councils, two counties, more than 23,000 homes, and over a billion pounds of infrastructure...

28 MIN

Legacy in Practice Ep 3 Hartree with Frances Wright

This is Legacy in Practice, a podcast series from E.C.F. - Engage, Communicate, Facilitate. In this episode, Oliver Deed travels to North Cambridge — to a quiet residential street called Marmalade Lane — where forty-two homes were designed alongside the people who now live in them. It's a small project. But it carries a big idea. Because just up the road sits the proposed Hartree masterplan — five thousand six hundred homes, alongside workplaces, schools and community facilities. And when the...

35 MIN

Legacy in Practice Ep 2 Homes for the NHS with Eugene Prinsloo

In this episode of Legacy in Practice, Oliver Deed is joined by Eugene Prinsloo, Development Director at Community Health Partnerships, to reflect on a project where early engagement was tested by organised opposition. Recorded on location, the conversation moves from the foundations of stakeholder mapping and relationship-building to the realities of navigating community resistance. Together, they explore how structured engagement, sequencing conversations correctly, and maintaining discip...

32 MIN

Legacy in Practice Ep 1 Enfield Town with Liz Rhodes

Recorded on foot through Enfield Town, this episode follows a candid walk-and-talk with Liz Rhodes from Enfield Council as she reflects on the Let’s Talk Enfield Town project. From historic markets to newly created public spaces, the conversation explores how early, meaningful community engagement shaped a major town-centre regeneration- what worked, what was challenging, and why involving people from the start changed the outcome. Honest, practical, and grounded in real places, this is a beh...

26 MIN