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MOVES: Appointment at Derby Cityscape

30 January 2004

Urban regeneration company Derby Cityscape has appointed a new chief executive. John Cadwallader (left) has more than 20 years' development and urban regeneration experience, having previously held a range of posts at development company Beazer. Acting chief executive Michael Wall has left to become chair designate at the East Midlands Development Agency's Business Services East Midlands, a new organisation aiming to overhaul business support services in the region.

Make use of urban fringe area potential, advises consultation

30 January 2004

More use should be made of the land between town and countryside to promote sustainable development, a consultation paper argued this week.

Prescott backs calls to revisit Barnett formula

30 January 2004

Deputy prime minister John Prescott is privately backing attempts to get the Government to reconsider its support for the controversial funding formula that gives Scotland a disproportionately generous slice of the public spending pie.

LGA chair criticises 'new localism' policy

30 January 2004

Voter fatigue and fragmentation of public services could be the end result of the Government's proposed "new localism", according to the chairman of the Local Government Association.

Media can help build community cohesion, committee is told

30 January 2004

Local media have an important role to play in building community cohesion, an ODPM committee heard this week.

Screen scheme

30 January 2004

Designers Hudson Architects and DSDHA's plans to transform central Castleford (see visualisation, above) are among the first round of proposals being considered for Channel 4's forthcoming series on the regeneration of the South Yorkshire town. Three teams of architects were this week appointed to produce detailed plans for schemes focusing on the Castleford's centre, its frontage onto the River Aire and a possible new crossing over the same river. Designers McDowell & Benedetti will work on the river crossing, while Sarah Wrigglesworth has been invited to develop a masterplan for the riverside area. The series is scheduled for late 2004 or early 2005.

Entrepreneur damns government support

30 January 2004

A prominent entrepreneur this week hit out at government business support schemes.

'Enterprise city' contest mooted

30 January 2004

A European City of Enterprise competition was this week proposed by the chancellor as the Government pledged to tackle the chronic malaise in UK entrepreneurship and aspiration.

STOP PRESS: Planning application for Olympic facilities

30 January 2004

A planning application for Olympic facilities within the Lower Lea Valley in east London was due to be submitted as Regeneration & Renewal went to press. The application will include an Olympic Stadium and linked facilities, as well as 37 bridges crossing waterways into newly-created parks on former industrial land. It will be considered by a joint planning team from Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest, Newham and Hackney councils.

STOP PRESS: Tenants of council housing estates ...

30 January 2004

Tenants of council housing estates that reject the transfer of their homes to registered social landlords will not have their dwellings refurbished with council cash, planning minister Keith Hill said this week. Speaking at a select committee hearing on the decent homes standard, Hill said that the Government had torn up its previous commitment, made two years ago, that all unfit homes in the social sector would be improved irrespective of who owned them.