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William R.J Wood, 2018
The New Deal for Communities Programme [NDCP] was a New Labour initiative which attempted to respond to the failure of several generations of area based initiatives [ABIs] to achieve significant lasting change. This dissertation evaluates whether or not the programme has acted as a platform for further redevelopment through examining four former NDC areas in London. It concludes that the NDCP has been moderately successful, with some evidence of genuinely well thought out forward-looking planning taking place and communities taking charge of their situations. However, a noble desire to advance matters has not necessarily been able to be reflected when communicating with stakeholders, or in the innovativeness of initiatives, or in the level of post-NDC activity. But there has been a reasonable ability to seize a greater level of control than before. Former NDC areas have all attracted post-NDC funding, albeit with a lack of diversity in the range of investors and some quite stark differences in total amounts given. Impressively, any positive outcomes of the NDCP have all happened in a time of very significant economic uncertainty, showing that the NDCP must have got something right in its design. The author notes that, if the economic situation were different, it is quite probable the results would paint a different picture, and also that it is ultimately hard to be completely sure of the extent to which post-NDC events have happened as a direct result of the NDCP, recognising that a multitude of external factors may have had a contributory effect and cannot easily be evaluated for the purposes of research. The author also draws attention to some statistical evidence, namely index of multiple deprivation [IMD] figures to supplement the case that the NDC programme has acted as more of a platform for further redevelopment than previous ABIs might have.
Communities and Local Government, 2010
2016
Researchers in Tyneside and Coventry have been re-visiting the Community Development Project (CDP) of the 1970s as part of an Economic and Social Research Council funded project – Imagine: Connecting Communities through Research (2013-17). The Community Development Project (CDP), a Home Office-funded experimental, anti-poverty initiative of the 1970s, was located in 12 areas in the UK. Three of these areas are the focus of the Imagine study: Benwell (Newcastle-upon-Tyne), North Shields and Hillfields (Coventry). The programme of research has been co-ordinated by Durham University’s Centre for Social Justice and Community Action in partnership with Warwick University, and 15 community partner organisations.
Communities and Local Government Publications, 2010
Approximately a sixth of the world's population (850 million people) now live in slums. This could double by 2050. In Jamaica, 20% of the population (540,000) lives in informal settlements. These slums are of concern because of the increasing health risks. Sanitation, food storage facilities and drinking water quality are often poor, with the result that inhabitants are exposed to a wide range of pathogens. So, houses may act as breeding grounds for insect vectors. Excessive exposures to indoor and outdoor pollution may also occur, with limited access to health and other services. Additionally, overcrowding can contribute to stress, violence and increased problems of drugs and other social problems. With the assistance of international partners, the public and the private sectors, and stakeholders in the community, the Government of Jamaica piloted the CRP in Majesty Gardens. This article explores Majesty Gardens, and the goals of the CRP to transform the community through establishing a sense of community through staging an event to commemorate Jamaica's 50 th Independence. Additionally, literacy programmes, skills-training, job placements, parenting workshops, housing solutions, and more were added to assist with the upgrading of this community. In ten years, the expectation is to see an increased sense of community, citizen participation, and empowerment experienced by community residents.
Stephen Hill with Clarissa Mason and Nicky Wittenham. In 1999, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, with the principal self build promotional agencies, jointly commissioned a study into the future of community self build: Community Self Build Agency, Community Self Build Scotland, the Walter Segal Self Build Trust, and the Young Builders’ Trust. The study consisted of semi-structured interviews with over 60 practitioners, policy makers and opinion formers, in central and local Government, the voluntary sector, and academics with an interest in self-build. The aim of the study was to establish the changing policy and operational context for self build, particularly in relation to government policies for regeneration, social inclusion and anti-poverty strategies, both in England and Scotland. The study found overwhelming support, in both countries, for the principles of community self build, and the quality of personal outcomes that were possible for individual self-builders. Community self build was seen as an ideal vehicle for achieving many of the Government’s “joined-up” social policy objectives. However, most recognised that self-build housing was a highly complex process, and that the record of achievement over the previous decade was deeply flawed, with probably less than 1000 completions. The main concerns of interviewees were: • Too many promotional agencies, competing for scarce resources and without a sufficiently clear justification for maintaining separate identities. • Unhelpful and competing promotional messages from the agencies, which led to the widely held perception, whether justified or not, that each agency was only interested in promoting their own “one true way”. • Lack of clarity about the function of the agencies in England, and the difficult and often ambiguous relationship they had as promoters and enablers working alongside Registered Social Landlords, who had the operational responsibility of funding and project managing the self build schemes. • The inhospitable culture of Registered Social Landlords, post -1988 Housing Act, with their focus firmly on increasing production quickly, with the proliferation of design and build contracting, with an associated deskilling of the client function, and a lack of interest in housing solutions tailored to individual need and choices, and in extreme cases bordering on overt hostility to the exercise of consumer choice. • Institutional prejudice in many enabling organisations against the idea of using public resources to create private wealth or advantage. However, it was recognised that in the period immediately preceding the study, the effect of these factors was diminishing and that a range of new opportunities was opening up for the idea of community self build. The main prospects for renewed action to promote self-build were focussed on: • Diversification away from new build forms of housing, to include rehabilitation, especially in regeneration programmes, and in areas of low demand housing. • A more catholic approach to tenure, covering publicly funded rented and shared ownership housing, as well as higher but sub-market ownership and rental projects, especially for essential service industry workers. • More variety in self build approaches, ranging from full self build carried out by self builders themselves through to self finishing, with self builders acting as the trainees and/or employees of a contractor. • Considerable improvement in the project management and financial control skills and procedures of self build schemes by Registered Social Landlords. • Greater transparency and regulation of the valuation of “sweat equity” or “voluntary effort”. • Greater emphasis on Registered Social Landlords facilitating self-build as part of a wider programme of promoting consumer choice and control. • Convergence of self build techniques with emerging technology from the Egan-isation of the housebuilding industry, especially with off-site prefabrication and standardised components. • More collaboration with other voluntary sector organisations, at a regional level, concerned with anti-poverty strategies, and community enterprise and development. • More focussed political engagement at a regional level, responding to the particular characteristics of local labour and housing markets. • Building a more robust national profile with a clear message about the benefits of self-building, in partnership with other national voluntary sector and representative organisations. In respect of all these proposals and recommendations, the situation in Scotland was already markedly more advanced than in England, despite the much later foundation of Community Self Build Scotland. Both Government and voluntary agencies in Scotland acted as if community self build was already firmly embedded in mainstream housing provision, even if it only represented a small part of total output. Its capacity to contribute to regeneration and to provide a pathway out of poverty was widely appreciated.
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