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The Local Environment and Economic Development (LEED) Toolkit
Posted on: 23 July 2013
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The Local Environment and Economic Development (LEED) Toolkit has been produced by the Defra network (the Environment Agency, Natural England and the Forestry Commission), working in partnership with several Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs), Local Authorities (LAs) and Local Nature Partnerships (LNPs). It is designed to help LEPs and LAs meet their economic growth targets by fully realising the roles the environment can play.
Heritage Dragons Report
Posted on: 24 May 2013
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This report follows the first ever Heritage Dragons event, which was designed by the Heritage Investment Working Group to support community groups in their work to regenerate local historic buildings at risk and act as a springboard for a wider discussion about the value of investment in heritage.
Greater Birmingham & Solihull LEP: Delivering growth
Posted on: 3 May 2013
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The Greater Birmingham & Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership has published its Strategy for Growth. The Strategy promises a spatial plan by the end of the year and a public sector land audit focused on bringing derelict land back into use. The strategy covers the period up to 2020 and aims to increase private-sector jobs by 100,000, increase GVA by £8.25bn and improve skills and performance.
Regenerating our communities: a snapshot in time
Posted on: 26 April 2013
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This publication offers a flavour of current regeneration activity based around new or refurbished housing provision. It is simply a snapshot, taking its material from 13 entries to the 2013 Chartered Institute of Housing Scotland/Scottish Government Excellence in Regeneration Award.
Have EU structural measures successfully supported the regeneration of industrial and military brownfield sites?
Posted on: 26 April 2013
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A new report from the European Court of Auditors, the EU spending watchdog, calls on the European Commission to improve the running of regeneration projects on brownfield. Sites, former industrial and military areas which are often derelict and contaminated. The Auditors found that results could have been achieved at a reduced cost to national and EU budgets because the need for public funding was not always established and rules governing EU funded regeneration projects do not sufficiently allow public money to be clawed back if projects generate more revenue than expected. They also found that the ‘polluter pays’ principle has not been fully applied so that national and EU funds have borne part of the cost of environmental clean-ups.
Start small, think big: Localising change. Newcastle, 17 April 2013
Posted on: 25 April 2013
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This event brought together experts involved with defining a viable alternative approach to regeneration, development and asset management. Presentations are available online.
Planning for growth. London, 19 April 2013
Posted on: 25 April 2013
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This conference explored how local authorities are seizing the tools and opportunities available to unlock development and speed up economic recovery. Presentations are available online.
Responsible recovery: A social contract for local growth
Posted on: 11 April 2013
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Market failure, inequality and deprivation are real and must be tackled, and government has a vital role to play in order to maximise the productive potential of our poorest neighbourhoods. But regeneration is not just a matter of reviving housing markets, providing transport infrastructure or devolving financial responsibilities. The starting point should be to understand and engage with the people who are most affected by poverty in the places where they live, working with them to create solutions that work in the context of their lives and strengthening the links and assets that are already important to them. This paper argues that we need to see people as the solution, not as the problem.
Cities: the new green entrepreneurs
Posted on: 10 April 2013
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Inside Track is the occasional journal of Green Alliance. It provides a platform for views on environmental politics, with updates and news on Green Alliance’s work. Issue 32 (Spring 2013) focuses on the new leadership UK cities are providing to develop a more sustainable, greener economy.
Shared space project
Posted on: 4 April 2013
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The village of Poynton in the UK has undertaken one of the most ambitious experiments to date in this type of street design, whose most prominent advocate was the Dutch traffic engineer Hans Monderman. Variations on the shared-space model have been implemented in other European cities since the early 1990s, but never before at such a busy junction. A film is available, documenting conditions before and after the change.
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