Apologies for cross posting.
Readers might be interested in the following seminar, for which there
are a few places left.
Towards neighbourhoods that work
A seminar organised by LEPU.
Wednesday 13th June 2001, South Bank University.
The Blair Government's vision for neighbourhoods is now clear, with on
one hand an emphasis on managerial solutions from new Neighbourhood
Managers who will 'knock heads together to get things done', and on
the other a continued emphasis on community involvement in New Deal
for Communities and Local Strategic Partnership.
Building on our seminar "Taking forward the National Strategy for
Neighbourhood renewal", this seminar will look at the future of area
regeneration. What blue-skies approaches are being developed that
ensure that local services are accountable and effectively delivered,
ensure joined up multi-agency working, and put local people as close
to the heart of decision making as they want to be?
Professor Marilyn Taylor from Brighton University will put the seminar
in context with a review of the Government's Neighbourhood Renewal
Strategy, concentrating especially on what the Government seems to
have got right, weaknesses, and suggestions for how some of the gaps
might be filled locally by communities and local partnerships.
Andy Attfield from O-regen shows how neighbourhood management has
developed in Waltham Forest over the last 10 years, building on the
award winning work of Waltham Forest Housing Action Trust (HAT).
Building on grounded experience, he will discuss how the best of the
Neighbourhood strategy can be put into action locally, while
commenting on what more needs to be done to get neighbourhoods to
work. Bill Peterman from the University of Illinois, currently a
Fulbright Scholar based at the University of the West of England will
give an overview of lessons for the UK from community-based
development from the United States.
In the afternoon, we examine lessons from the New Deal for Communities
for developing inclusive regeneration. Graham Duncan from the New Deal
for Communities Central Support Unit will draw on a range of examples
from across the UK to report on what lessons have been learned from
NDC experience; while John Batchelor from CSR Partnership in
Birmingham will comment from grounded experience with NDCs in the West
Midlands to discuss how reality needs to change if the rhetoric of
local community empowerment is to be made real.
The seminar would be of interest to policy makers, academics,
practitioners, Local Authority members and officers, and all involved
in local regeneration, who want to reflect critically on how policy
could be improved to facilitate better local area regeneration, and
discuss ways to make these changes locally.
Programme:
10.00 Introduction. Pete North, LEPU
10.10 Building neighbourhoods that work: what are the issues?
Professor Marilyn Taylor, University of Brighton
10.40 Questions and discussion
11.00 Tea and Coffee
11.20 From Housing Action to Development Trust: the O-Regen
experience
Andy Attfield, Chief Executive, O-Regen
11.40 Questions and Discussion
12.00 Community-based development - lessons from the USA
Bill Peterman - Chicago State University and University of the West
of England
12.30 Questions and discussion
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Lessons from the New Deal for Communities (1) - national
lessons.
Graham Duncan, New Deal for Communities Central Support Unit,
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions.
14.30 Questions and discussion
15.00 Tea and Coffee
15.20 Lessons from the New Deal for Communities (2) - making it
happen locally. John Batchelor, CSR-Partnership, Birmingham
15.40 Questions and discussion
16.10 Closing remarks
16.20 Close
Cost: £165 full, £65 local and voluntary organisations, £25 students
orm unfunded organisations when paid on a personal cheque.
Book on line, pay £155 or £55.
www.sbu.ac.uk/~lepu
or call Julie Miranda 020 7815 7798 fax 020 7815 7799
email [log in to unmask]
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Peter North
Local Economy Policy Unit
South Bank University, London
Tel: 020 7815-7706
E-Mail: [log in to unmask]
Website: http://www.sbu.ac.uk/~lepu/
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