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Community Renewal: Telly with vision

9 July 2004

Inspired by the BBC series Restoration, the Community Channel set out to identify sites where locals are rebuilding their heritage. Jamie Carpenter visits one dramatic find, while Matt Ross profiles the programme's other stars.

Editorial: All parties must be team players if UDC is to work

9 July 2004

To read about a Tory council leader complaining about her lack of influence over an "undemocratic" urban development corporation (see News, p3) will strike many as deeply ironic. After all, it was the Tories who championed the UDC in the 1980s, not least because it sidelined local authorities they believed to be incapable of changing their areas for the better.

Opinion: Time to halt the southern drift

9 July 2004

Writing this while listening to Sunderland Arc's estimable Tom Macartney address a conference in a Glasgow hotel about his previous (and great) work with the Crown Street Regeneration Project, wondering whether he had more than one black polo shirt in his wardrobe, I pondered the nature of the North-South divide. This issue of course has become topical again - though it never went out of style in this column - because of a recently published study by Professor Daniel Dorling of Sheffield University.

Opinion: Turning round the race question

9 July 2004

Earlier this month, Strength In Diversity - Towards a Community Cohesion and Race Equality Strategy was laid before Parliament. It's not a conventional consultation document, as it does not propose specific policy responses. Instead, it purports to engage people in issues key to the Home Office in pulling together the cohesion and race equality strategy.

Opinion: UK wins some and loses some in policy match

9 July 2004

For us self-flagellating Brits, the grass is always greener on the other side of the Channel. They do things differently there - and better: the national myth, now extended to football. But a new article in Built Environment (Vol. 30, No. 2) by three researchers from the Sorbonne - Oliver Coutard, Gabriel Dupuy and Sylvie Fol - suggests that as regenerators, the French are indeed different, though not necessarily any better, from us. The researchers studied poor people in two inner-city locations - the Salvador Allende Estate in St-Denis, a Paris inner suburb, and the De Beauvoir Estate in Hackney in London - and two contrasting outer small-town locations, the Shelley Estate in Chipping Ongar in Essex and Chaumont-en-Vexin north-west of Paris. They found that New Labour policies have systematically encouraged poor people off welfare and into jobs - but that to reach these jobs, especially more distant better-paid ones, people find public transport so bad that they're forced to buy cars.

Interview: Rural go-between takes the chair

9 July 2004

It's notoriously difficult to build a consensus on countryside issues. So when the Carnegie Trust decided to do exactly that, it saved the chairman's seat for a master of negotiation. Matt Ross meets Lord Steel.

Analysis: High demands of work on the street

9 July 2004

A study into English and Welsh street-based youth work uncovered the huge pressures that many of these schemes are under. Most worrying, over half of the surveyed projects were struggling financially to keep going, says John Pitts.

Economic Development News: Ship shape

9 July 2004

The Scottish Highlands are set for a major economic boom as a result of a 78 per cent increase in cruise liners due to visit the area this year, according to a local tourism agency. Cruise Highlands, set up last year to promote the Cromarty Firth's attractions for cruise liners, estimates that more than 22,000 passengers will dock at the port at Invergordon in Easter Ross this year, spending around £800,000. The agency says that nearly all of these passengers and many of the 11,000 crew will take coach trips to other tourist attractions across the region, including the Isle of Skye, Loch Ness and Dunrobin Castle. The port is due to host 27 liners in July and August, four more than last year.