Warwickshire Observatory at the LARIA Conference

The Observatory will be well represented at next week’s LARIA Annual Conference. LARIA is the Local Authorities Research & Intelligence Association, and provides a network for supporting research nationally across the public sector.  The 2011 Conference has the theme ‘Doing more with less: maximising the value and impact of research and intelligence’. Dave Gardiner will [...]

January 2011 Newsletter

This month sees the launch of our first ‘Warwickshire Observatory Newsletter’. Here you can see the work we’re currently involved in and some of the projects headed our way. There will be three newsletters produced per year alongside the regular updates we provide both on the blog and on our website. Warwickshire Observatory Newsletter – [...]

Warwickshire Blueprint Updated with High Speed 2 Preferred Rail Route

The Warwickshire Blueprint Project has recently been updated with the addition of the High Speed 2 Preferred Rail Route.  This was announced by Government on 11th March 2010 and is subject to consultation in Autumn 2010.  If approved, construction is due to start after 2017.  The proposed route runs through five localities in North Warwickshire [...]

The Warwickshire Blueprint Project

The Observatory has recently completed a new, innovative and forward-looking piece of analysis entitled the Blueprint Project. The project takes the form of a series of visual map-based presentations to show analysis for a range of existing demographic, economic, social, environmental and transport related datasets.  A further set of slides then detail some of the [...]