## News

Everything happening at Loqiva.

## [Why place apps fail](/content/news/why-place-apps-fail/index.html)

Somewhere in a council office is a slide deck. On it, a town centre map…

28th May 2026

## [We need to own our data](/content/news/we-need-to-own-our-data/index.html)

In the intellectual history of the free market, few ideas have been as infl…

30th April 2026

## [Independents vs Chains (for the soul of the high street)](/content/news/independents-vs-chains/index.html)

I recently sat in a meeting with a Place Manager to discuss how technology…

31st March 2026

## [No Parking Required: What driverless cars could mean for our High Streets](/content/news/no-parking-required-what-driverless-cars-could-mean-for-our-high-streets/index.html)

Take a look at photos of the high street in a British town in the 1960s…

2nd March 2026

## [The Case for Paid Loitering](/content/news/the-case-for-paid-loitering/index.html)

Let’s start with a hypothetical, because hypotheticals are where we prete…

31st January 2026

## [How Chicken Beat Fish](/content/news/how-chicken-beat-fish/index.html)

“We’d have chippy supper four, five times a week,”…

2nd January 2026

## [Digital Town Hub highlights of 2025](/content/news/digital-town-hubs-in-action-our-favourite-moments-of-2025/index.html)

From elf trails to heartwarming videos, from business awa…

1st December 2025

## [Rearranging the deckchairs on the internet](/content/news/rearranging-deckchairs-on-the-internet/index.html)

“Honestly, I don’t know why I bother” is a phrase familiar…

29th October 2025

## [The Future of the Third Place is a Platform, Not a Place](/content/news/the-future-of-the-third-place-is-a-platform-not-a-place/index.html)

The term “third place” was coined by sociologist Ray Oldenburg in 1989 to describ…

30th August 2025

## [Everything in St Andrews is Now Just a Tap Away](/content/news/everything-in-st-andrews-is-now-just-a-tap-away/index.html)

A new Digital Town Hub is launching in the Home of Golf, as BID St Andrews partners with…

18th August 2025

## [The Price of Takeaway Food](/content/news/the-price-of-takeaway-food/index.html)

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31st July 2025

## [The Bristol Pound was the right idea at the wrong time](/content/news/the-bristol-pound-was-the-right-idea-at-the-wrong-time/index.html)

In 2012, Bristol launched the UK’s most ambitious local currency experime…

30th June 2025