Neighbourhood Renewal The New Kid on the Block

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Neighbourhood RenewalThe New Kid on the Block

• Stephen Jacobs OBE

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Overview

• Who were our professional mummies and daddies
• What really went wrong and what went right
• Net result
• New wave regeneration
• Why this new regeneration programme is different

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Regeneration Strategiesin the UK

• After the second World War
• Imports for US Poverty Programme
• New Towns UDP (LDDC)
• Community Development Programme
• Urban Programme
• City Challenge
• SRB
• Neighbourhood Renewal
• See Saw

People
Physical
Delivered by Central Government, Local Government
and Private Sector
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Why Regeneration Schemes Fail

• Failure to
• Understand what works
• Measure
• Of initial appraisal
• To apply project management techniques
• Of mainstream providers to buy in to the process
• To ask the community
• To understand economic and social changes
• Of bureaucracy to move quick enough to achieve
  results

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Whose Failure?

• Everything wasnt bad
• Blame culture to date
• Some economic programmes worked e.g. UDCs, Canary
  Wharf
• Some regeneration programmes worked e.g. City
  Challenge
• Difficult to expect some scale regeneration
  programmes to change all social ills

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But still..

• Poor people, poor services
• Compartmentalised delivery by statutory services
• Pepper potted approach to regeneration
• Competition rather than co-operation
• Reinventing the wheel rather than what works
• Lack of mainstream successful programmes
• Result Keep revisiting same areas, programme
  after programme

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Neighbourhood RenewalThe new kid on the block

• The Governments vision
• that within 10 to 20 years, no-one should be
  seriously disadvantaged by where they live.
  People on low incomes should not have to suffer
  conditions or services that are failing, and so
  different from what the rest of the population
  receives.
• And thats our vision

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New Wave Regeneration

• The new regeneration buzz words/ideas
• Joined up Government
• Capacity Building/Empowerment
• Social inclusion/cohesion
• Modernising Local Government
• Zones R Us
• Outputs vs Impact
• Bending mainstream programmes

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Regeneration hitting the big time

• To narrow the gap of those living in deprived
  areas and the rest in key outcome areas i.e
• Health
• Crime
• Jobs
• Education
• Housing

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Key Initiatives

• Local Strategic Partnerships - Joined up
  Government
• Neighbourhood Renewal Strategy
• Neighbourhood Management
• Neighbourhood Wardens

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New way of working

• Learning
• Bottom up approach
• Role of professionals/community
• Mainstreaming
• Floor targets
• Joined up working
• Social cohesion