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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.

Economic Development News: North-south divisions are getting wider, says study

9 July 2004

The country is being split in half as the north-south divide grows ever wider, researchers have claimed.

Economic Development News: Defra set to push for national road charge

9 July 2004

The Department for the Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has pledged to fight for nationwide road charging.

Economic Development News: Locals left out of cultural renewal

9 July 2004

Culture-led regeneration initiatives need to put in place safeguards to ensure that they do not lead to local residents being forced out of gentrified areas and losing out on job opportunities, according to a government consultation.

Physical Regeneration News: Bid change mooted to curb cash crisis

9 July 2004

Local projects operating within one of the biggest regeneration schemes in Europe have drawn up plans to help the local regional development agency overcome what they see as a funding crisis.

Physical Regeneration Brief: Mersey Partnership awarded

9 July 2004

Economic regeneration body the Mersey Partnership has been awarded one of three British hospitality awards by the British Hospitality Association (BHA) for its success in promoting the region as a tourist destination. The partnership, which brings together nearly 400 businesses, was described by BHA chief executive Bob Cotton as a "role model" for joint working.

Physical Regeneration Brief: Sunderland exchange finished

9 July 2004

Work has just finished on a new telephone exchange in Sunderland which will offer access to broadband technology for residents and businesses in the city. The Hylton exchange upgrade forms part of a £10 million scheme being rolled out across the region by regional development agency One North-East in conjunction with British Telecom. The completed scheme will offer broadband access to 94.5 per cent of the region's population.