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A brilliant day in #Wigan with Council & community leaders and the Independent Commission on Neighbourhoods. Loads examples of community led & system enabled support for people to live well in their neighbourhood. #GMLiveWell #RadicalPlaceLeadership

Strong speech from Polly Billington for East Thanet on the need for coastal communities to get the support they need. Half the mission critical neighbourhoods we have identified at Independent Commission on Neighbourhoods are on the coast. We need to give places like Newington Estate we visited priority.

Great to see Sureena Brackenridge MP Brackenridge MP calling for a £1 billion fund for neighbourhood renewal. Sureena cited ICON’s research, asking “…the minister to take the evidence from ICON as a roadmap for delivery”.

Yesterday in Parliament, Luke Akehurst MP highlighted the need for targeting policy at ‘mission critical’ neighbourhoods. He warned that “if investment isn’t made in these neighbourhoods, we will never achieve national targets”.

Ahead of the Spending Review on Wednesday, The The Guardian have covered ICON's call for investing in the social infrastructure of mission critical neighbourhoods. Read Heather Stewart's piece here: theguardian.com/politics/2025/…

Really fascinating looking at voting intention by life satisfaction: Both the Green Party and Reform do much better with people with lower life satisfaction, Labour is only convincingly ahead with people who rate their life satisfaction at 10/10

Weekly YouGov intention poll for The Times/Sky News RefUK 29% (+1) LAB 23% (+1) CON 17% (-1) LDEM 15% (-2) GRN 10% (+1)

Ahead of the Spending Review tomorrow, great to see Sky News coverage of our call for social infrastructure investment. Read Faye Brown 's piece here: news.sky.com/story/dozens-o…

After a year of campaigning on the issue, the government have just announced that 200 acres of land next to Sellafield in my constituency will be released to build new nuclear. This is a game changer for West Cumbria, energy security and new industry! 🧵 whitehavennews.co.uk/news/25226850.…

97.8% of our community lives in a mission-critical neighbourhood – including me. That’s more than any other constituency in the country. I’m calling on the government to recognise these 34 areas, treat them as mission-critical and back them with the resources, focus and urgency

Chancellor: Today I’m pleased to announce additional funding to support up to 350 communities… …especially those in the most deprived areas. Funding to improve parks, youth facilities, swimming pools and libraries… …supporting councils’ fightback against graffiti and

The Government announces 25 new Trailblazer Neighbourhoods, which will receive £20 million over the next decade. It builds on the Government's Plan for Neighbourhoods and, before that, the Long-Term Plan for Towns: gov.uk/government/pub…

Detailed analysis to follow but a *big* day for Independent Commission on Neighbourhoods: £500 million secured for New Deal for Communities-style investment, targeting mission critical neighbourhoods.

One thing word noting is the very small geographic scale in which these investments will be made We’re talking an average ~8000 population per 25 places, each of which will get up to £20mn Truly hyperlocal - exactly as Independent Commission on Neighbourhoods has been calling - with lots more to come.

Not too late to sign up for our event next week but tickets are flying out - get em now! We'll reflect on some of our early findings looking through 20 years of data on the most disadvantaged neighbourhoods, reflecting on the Spending Review, and more. x.com/iconeighbours/…