OUR REPORTS
YOUTH RESEARCH
Everyone has the right to be heard regarding decisions that concern us, but frequently young people don’t have that opportunity.
In 2024, CP4H launched a peer-led youth research project with partners Just Fair and the British Institute of Human Rights. A group of young people living and studying in Islington were trained and supported to design and carry out research activities to find out what their peers’ views are on the local area and what should be taken into account by developers and planners, especially those working on the Holloway Prison development (now known as Holloway Park).
This report brings together the youth researchers’ findings and recommendations for engaging young people in the design, planning and management of Holloway Park and other future developments, as well as for creating a community that young people feel part of.
Find out more, read the zine, and watch the youth researchers’ film here
Community Voices
Our ‘Community Voices’ research project builds upon previous studies that have reported on people’s aspirations for the Holloway Prison redevelopment and was based on 217 community narratives collected online and offline in 2020, with street-level interviews and group discussions that enabled people to explain their views in detail.
This research provides more up-to-date and greater in-depth information on people’s views on the Holloway Prison redevelopment.
It also provides vital information about whose voices are being heard or, conversely, whose voices have been missing, depending upon whether they were consulted by online surveys or via discussions individually and in groups, on the street and through community organisations.