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Regeneration & Renewal blog: Regional growth indicators: do they need an overhaul?
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Friday, 22 July 2011. Regional growth indicators: do they need an overhaul? When business minister Mark Prisk told Regeneration and Renewal. S Northern Summit last October that Labour's regional development agencies (RDAs) had failed to close the north-south divide. What he failed to observe is that they had probably played a part in preventing the economic gap from widening. That, by any measure, is a failed policy.". We don't know for sure what the situation would have been like had the RDAs not existe...
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Regeneration & Renewal blog: Reacting to the riots
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Wednesday, 10 August 2011. Reacting to the riots. The unrest seen in towns and cities across England has sparked widespread condemnation. But there has also been much soul-searching as society tries to understand how the factors behind the events of recent days. For years the regeneration sector has worked in some of the communities affected. Some are now questioning not only the effectiveness of this work but the methods themselves. Jess Steele, director of innovation at social action network Locality:.
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Regeneration & Renewal blog: February 2011
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Thursday, 24 February 2011. Future of LEPs' planning role remains hazy. For the current issue. We undertook an investigation. What the survey did show was a strong appetite among LEPs to exert influence over planning in their areas'. Intends to follow up with these partnerships in the coming weeks and find out whether any more decisions have been made.). Similarly, many who answered, "Yes, we do intend to take on planning responsibilities" went on to explain that, while they wanted to influence plan-maki...
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Regeneration & Renewal blog: After the riots: 10 ways in which the Government has responded to the disorder
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Wednesday, 17 August 2011. After the riots: 10 ways in which the Government has responded to the disorder. 8220;This must be a wake-up call for our country,” said Prime Minister David Cameron earlier this week, in a speech in which he outlined a set of responses to the rioting and looting which swept English cities last week. “Social problems that have been festering for decades have exploded in our face.”. Read on for our summary of ten policy measures announced by the coalition in response to the riots:.
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Regeneration & Renewal blog: June 2011
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Wednesday, 29 June 2011. Enterprise Zone Watch #3. Tomorrow's deadline for submitting enterprise zone bids is almost upon us, so this will be the final installment of Enterprise Zone Watch. Over the past week, there's been a flurry of bidding activity from LEPs hoping to get one of 10 second-wave enterprise zones, while those LEPs that were selected to have one of the 11 first-wave enterprise zones have also been busy finalising their proposals for where they'd like their zone to be located. The site, si...
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Regeneration & Renewal blog: From ceramics to railways: emerging second-round RGF bids
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Tuesday, 12 July 2011. From ceramics to railways: emerging second-round RGF bids. Details of bids submitted to the second round of the £1.4 billion Regional Growth Fund (RGF) are slowly starting to trickle out. Note that the second round of the RGF allows applicants to bid for 'programme' funding for third party funding bodies to administer grants and loans to small businesses, for example, as well as 'project' funding for one-off schemes.). Leeds City Region LEP. Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire LEP.
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Regeneration & Renewal blog: July 2011
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Friday, 22 July 2011. Regional growth indicators: do they need an overhaul? When business minister Mark Prisk told Regeneration and Renewal. S Northern Summit last October that Labour's regional development agencies (RDAs) had failed to close the north-south divide. What he failed to observe is that they had probably played a part in preventing the economic gap from widening. That, by any measure, is a failed policy.". We don't know for sure what the situation would have been like had the RDAs not existe...
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Regeneration & Renewal blog: Report questions wisdom of Manchester Airport enterprise zone
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Friday, 5 August 2011. Report questions wisdom of Manchester Airport enterprise zone. A report has been published today claiming that the Government made the wrong decision in locating Greater Manchester's enterprise zone at Manchester Airport. The proposals themselves have been put forward by Mag Developments, the development arm of the Manchester Airport company.). The airport enterprise zone is likely to displace jobs and economic activity from areas outside of the zone that are also in need of invest...
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Landscape PING!: May 2011
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Landscape . urbanism . planning . design. Wednesday, 4 May 2011. Who wants to be the Mayor of Leicester? This post gives me a great excuse to indulge my inner school boy and repost the story of former Mayor of Leicester, Colin Hall, whose trousers fell down whilst giving a talk to a primary school. See below:. Http:/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/10465457. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Who wants to be the Mayor of Leicester? View my complete profile. Follow me on Twitter. How Can Louisiana Build Back Smarter? The Dea...
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Landscape PING!: November 2011
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Landscape . urbanism . planning . design. Wednesday, 16 November 2011. Landscape Urbanism as a model for post-industrial regeneration in austerity England. It seemed appropriate that in the absence of any recent blog posts, that I should post a little bit about what I’ve been up to instead. Below is the abstract of my recent planning MSc dissertation. If you’d like any further information, please give me a shout, but fingers crossed there will something published from it soon. A Literature Review investi...
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