The CityCo POPs Forum aims to support managers of privately owned public space (POPS) in Manchester City Centre.
The ambition is:
- To support our members in operating some of the best POPS
- To effect consistency of quality visitor experience across Manchester city centre POPs
- To provide a strong voice for the management of POPs across the city centre
- To retain the unique characteristics of Manchester city centre’s POPS.
The information provided in this toolkit comes from a range of sources:
- From real time experience of managing issues in public spaces
- From sharing of best practice amongst peers locally, nationally and internationally
- From first-hand experience of dealing with the same issues in publicly owned public spaces
- From study of place management academically
- Multi-agency partner inputs.
If you have responsibility for managing a space that is open to the public, then this forum is designed for you. Being part of the forum and using the information in this toolkit will ensure that you:
- Understand the impact that outside factors can have on your space and how to best manage it
- Have information at your disposal that will help you deal with the key issues facing POPS management today
- Give you a clear steer of the core management issues you need to be up to date with to effectively manage your space
- Have a pathway to ongoing learning from peers, sharing of best practice, and training.
