While it is intuitively convincing that neighbourhood characteristics add up to an important location factor, knowledge about the benefits that individual firms and entrepreneurs can draw from neighbourhood-oriented policy is still limited. This article contributes to the discussion by...

This article focuses around a study of declining shopping provision in Hyson Green, a deprived area of inner Nottingham, since 1973. It starts by reviewing issues surrounding inner city retail decline that prompt policy concerns, including aspects of health and diet, local economy, environmental...

Many challenges face local authorities and communities as they engage in the Government's Market Towns Initiative, launched in 2001. This article first considers vertical relationships and the conflicts which emerged when national and regional agencies attempted to roll out a top-down programme...

This article discusses the challenges that local enterprise partnerships are likely to experience in evaluation given the severe constraints on the funds available to evaluators and local enterprise partnerships. It highlights the rationale and benefits of conducting evaluation and examines how...

This paper discusses the potential value of local, partnership-based employability training and job guarantee programmes, focusing on one example--the 'Alloa Initiative'. The Initiative involved an employability training and job guarantee scheme developed in partnership with Tesco, a major...