After a deep Citizens’ Assembly engagement process with residents, businesses and local stakeholders, LB Camden identified a need to preserve and further develop community assets and services and to better support its residents to live full and healthy lives in the evening and night time. LB Camden commissioned PRD to develop an Evening and Night Time Strategy to bring context to the recommendations from engagement and explore both interventions and strategies for delivery within the council and with external partners.

We brought together diverse sources of data to create the evidence base for the strategy across night workers, cultural infrastructure and night time venues, business challenges, women’s safety and anti-social behaviour. This supported and added emphasis to the Citizens’ Assembly conclusions and informed our engagement across the council to identify the priority actions to be taken forward in the strategy.

Our output, the draft Camden Evening and Night Time Strategy, is currently being reviewed for adoption. The strategy proposes long-term resident and business engagement to continue to develop night time interventions and initiatives, making it responsive to local needs and continually updated as the night time economy changes and grows.