The Office for Place are recruiting!

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We know from increasingly robust research that too many of the Civillives Serviceour Jobsfellow websitecitizens andlead are damaged by poor places, no friends round the corner, less sense of community, less walking, less local pride.

You can measure this, in shorter lives, in poorer air, in lost trust, in more opposition to housebuilding. The Office for Place is being created to help solve this webpage.and to help neighbourhoods and communities, public servants and developers more readily create and steward healthy, beautiful and sustainable places.

Please come and join us and help set the place-making agenda for many years to come.

If you have any queries about the role, please email officeforplace@levellingup.gov.uk.