The second workshop convened 21 policymakers from various organisations, including Lancaster City Council, Lancaster County Council, and the Environmental Agency. These policymakers possessed expertise in sustainable travel, green/blue infrastructure, public realm, climate emergency, biodiversity, healthy places, energy generation, environment, transport and health, flooding, drainage, cycling and walking, and air quality.

The workshop had four objectives. Firstly, it aimed to familiarise all participants with the placemaking framework. Secondly, it sought to analyse and group the outcomes from the placemaking workshop involving young adults. Thirdly, it aimed to generate policy ideas that incorporated the sustainable principles and ways of living of young people. Lastly, the workshop aimed to explore how descriptions of sustainable thriving and ways of living could be transformed into actionable policies.