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Demolition urged to renew poor areas

16 July 2004

Deprived housing estates and neighbourhoods should be demolished and redeveloped to break up concentrations of poverty, according to a leading American authority on regeneration.

ODPM warns regeneration pilots

16 July 2004

Housing market renewal pathfinders are not being radical enough in their approach and need to be more innovative to justify future funding, an ODPM chief warned last week.

In our interview with Lord Steel (Regeneration & Renewal, 9 July, p15), we quoted his comments on rural community councils. We want to make clear that Lord Steel meant the bodies known in Scotland as community councils and in England as parish councils. In England, rural community councils - the bodies praised in Lord Haskins's report on rural issues - are charitable development agencies that bring together voluntary and community groups.

News brief: Street furniture blights towns says English Heritage

16 July 2004

A welter of signs, posts, poles and bollards are blighting towns and villages, claims English Heritage. The Government's architectural adviser has estimated that more than 20 agencies take part in decisions to install street furniture. It plans to publish a best practice report in October outlining recommendations to the Department of Transport.

News brief: Market Estate in Islington to be redeveloped

16 July 2004

A run-down 1960s north London housing estate will be redeveloped following the decision of 88 per cent of residents to transfer their homes to the Southern Housing Group. The Market Estate in Islington will be demolished and replaced with houses, flats and maisonettes around a traditional street pattern. The vote also allows for improvements to be made on the adjacent Caledonian Park estate.

News brief: Affordable homes to be created on former Ovaltine factory site

16 July 2004

Up to 110 affordable homes will be created on a former Ovaltine factory site in King's Langley, Hertfordshire. The new homes will be a mixture of houses and flats, which will include 71 units offered for rent to families on the Three Rivers Housing Association tenant list. The remaining 39 properties will be offered on a shared ownership basis.

News brief: Chancellor will struggle to meet pledge says think-tank

16 July 2004

The Chancellor will struggle to meet his pledge to halve child poverty by the end of the decade, an influential think-tank has claimed. The Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) said that the chancellor's plans to halve the total of children in low relative income homes by 2010 was ambitious. IFS programme director Alissa Goodman said: "It's quite likely that there will be more public spending required."

Moves: Appointment at Boreham Consulting Engineers

16 July 2004

Boreham Consulting Engineers has appointed transportation consultant Carl Tonks as regional director for the South-West.

Moves: Appointment at Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council

16 July 2004

Jameel Malik has joined the policy and regeneration team at Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council as senior policy officer. He was previously acting director for Race Equality Sandwell, covering housing, regeneration and community cohesion.

Moves: Appointment at North-West Regional Development Agency

16 July 2004

The North-West Regional Development Agency has appointed Karen Spriggs as rural regeneration manager - Cumbria. She will be responsible for the management of the Cumbria Rural Recovery Plan and delivery of the Market Town Initiative in Cumbria. She joins from government rural watchdog the Countryside Agency.