Regeneration

The emperor’s discarded clothes – and the work programme

I have wondered whether my dislike for payments by results (PbR) stems from the fact that it makes life hard for the voluntary and community sector, that my dislike is a simple response from gut instinct when the political rhetoric of PbR is so compelling, so simple; how could I be against it – no results, no money – the state saves!

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

Local growth through community economic development

Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

Business members ready to walk out of LEPs

Regeneration

A new definition of regeneration

Local Government Regeneration

Hot air hustings

Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

The stormy relationship between growth and planning

Local Government Regeneration

Owning the responsibility for change

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

The search for enterprising places

Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

Urban policy in the age of austerity

The chancellor George Osborne has been peddling the rhetoric of ‘rebalancing the economy’ since the coalition came into power in 2010, yet for the first time in over 40 years there is no national programme of regeneration to address the needs of the most deprived areas. Furthermore, the agencies tasked with tackling regional disparities have been closed and many of their functions centralised.