Civic graph
Explore the topics, people, organisations, places and issues behind the stories.
Move from a broad civic theme into the specific issues, evidence and civic objects connected to it — while keeping every source and provider visible.
Ongoing civic issues
Follow a question across the graph
Issue pages connect several civic objects around a continuing public question, while keeping the underlying people, organisations, places and evidence independently identifiable.
Southall Gasworks redevelopment → Planning, remediation, air quality, public health and accountability around the former gasworks site.
Civic topics
Start with a subject
Air pollution
Air quality, emissions, monitoring and pollution-related public health.
Housing
Housing supply, affordability, council housing and delivery.
Local democracy
Elections, councillors, scrutiny, petitions and participation.
Planning and development
Planning decisions, regeneration and major development.
Council accountability
Scrutiny, transparency, complaints and information rights.
Public health
Population health and health consequences of civic decisions.
Governance
How local decisions are made and institutions governed.
Children's centres
Family services and decisions affecting early-years provision.
Waste and fly-tipping
Waste collection, recycling, street cleanliness and fly-tipping.
Pensions and divestment
Pension governance, investment and divestment debates.
Topics and issues are Civic Commons public objects. The entity directory merges Civic Commons-native identities with reviewed entities from the Southall Stories research archive. Each page labels the provenance of its data.