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AGENDA

9 January 2004

AGENDA TO 25 MARCH

BOOK REVIEW: Battleplan against bad behaviour

9 January 2004

The current Government has done more than most to recognise that successful neighbourhoods are complex structures and that unless regeneration policies tackle the myriad problems facing deprived communities, its plans to tackle inequality will be thwarted. Frank Field's timely book looks at perhaps the single most pressing issue for communities and government alike - the need to get to grips with anti-social behaviour.

DIARY: Flights of fancy, fiery speech from the DPM and a haunting campaign

9 January 2004

News just in from Transport Towers: People living in the flight path of Heathrow's planned third runway should be offered subsidised school trips to the countryside by air operators, or the provision of quiet music or reading rooms to make up for the 24,000 tonnes of jet rattling their walls to the foundations every hour.

TURNING POINT: Agent for community investment

9 January 2004

A turning point can be reached without knowing it. I only realised recently how my life had changed and that I had in fact been heading in a new direction for some time.

2004: The year ahead

9 January 2004

After years of growth, 2004 looks set to be a year of belt-tightening in the regeneration sector. Ben Willis, Ben Walker, Nick Loney and Matt Ross cast their eyes over the year ahead.

EDITORIAL: Lottery funders must remain free to take risks

By Richard Garlick

9 January 2004

Pumping tens of millions of pounds of public money into a new botanical visitor attraction in a remote Celtic outpost is clearly a risky enterprise.

OPINION: Less whingeing, more action

9 January 2004

After my last piece before Christmas (Regeneration & Renewal, 12 December, p18) even the vicar scowled at me at midnight mass (Ok, I made the last sentence up for effect, but you get the drift). I confess: I was tearing what's left of my follicles out because a noble deal was going off the rails. Accordingly, my usually balanced and more-or-less good natured (yeah, well) commentary on the foibles of the whacky world of regeneration got swept away in a somewhat unseasonal avalanche of exasperation.

OPINION: Making real life headline news

9 January 2004

Just before Christmas, I spent two days with a journalist and photographer from the Guardian, introducing them to projects in Handsworth and Aston in Birmingham. Their brief was to review progress since the shootings of Letisha Shakespeare and Charlene Ellis one year ago. The feature was published to coincide with a vigil organised by the victims' mothers, Beverley Thompson and Marcia Shakespeare.

OPINION: A very seasonal tale of housing market growth

By Sir Peter Hall, professor of planning at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London. Email: sir.peter.hall@haynet.com

9 January 2004

The Christmas and New Year period is the season of recycled roast turkey and instant microwave news. You suddenly realise that a large part of the news is manufactured - not in the Hutton Inquiry sense, but simply processed and served in neat chunks to meet the insatiable appetites of the meeja. But at holiday times, the news factories shut.

INTERVIEW: Heading up a hospital transplant

9 January 2004

Combining two health trusts and a medical college, a new hospital complex is set to rise in Paddington. Gareth Goodier, chief executive of one of the trusts, talks to Colin Marrs about the implications for regeneration.