Communities and Local Government identified four key questions that they wanted tenants’ ideas on. They also wanted to sound out proposals. The core questions were:•How could social landlords involve tenants more in improving the social housing stock?•How could social landlords, working...

Housing and neighbourhoodConditions have changed radically since the Sustainable Communities Plan proposed “large-scaleclearance” as a central part of the regeneration and renewal of old streets of terraced housing andmore recently built council estates. One thing has not changed: community...

The two areas in which this study is based are located in Northern cities. The first area, KirksideEast, is a large council estate four miles from the centre of Leeds. It is predominantly councilrented, housing low-income, mainly white residents, many of whom have strong local connectionsand at...

Trafford Hall offers training, support and pump-priming grants to residents andvolunteers in low income communities to help them tackle local problems within theircommunities. Since 1994 when the Centre opened, around 70,000 participants have beenon residential courses leading to action plans...

Sport England is interested to know how families with children experience the following aspects ofneighbourhood life: involvement in sport; access to facilities; activities for young people; and theengagement of young people in poor areas in the Olympic development. Sport England wantedevidence...

Existing evidence showed that:- local environmental problems are widespread but worse in low-income areas- there is little evidence that wider environmental concerns are less in low-incomecommunities- residents in low-income areas often face different barriers and incentives for action fromthose...

The paper documents the loca impacts of government efforts to improve housing standards and demand, enhance environmental quality and foster sustainable regeneration within low-income areas. Housing, the ocal environment and physical regeneration were core concerns for Labour as it...

This report was jointly commissioned by the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit (NRU) in the Office ofthe Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) and the Economic and Social Research Council. It containsboth full and summary reports of a literature review of neighbourhood change, undertaken withthe primary aim of...

The Government has made housing a central element in itsoverall growth and development strategy. It is one of the keyfactors that will shape the country’s decision on whether to jointhe Euro Zone. Housing shortages and costs are significantfactors in the recruitment and retention of key public...

This paper is about low-income neighbourhoods, their organisation andmanagement. It is not a study in deprivation, but is about problem-solving,about the reforms in delivery underway in Britain, about long run attempts tochange neighbourhood conditions and environments, about the central role...