Regeneration Politcs
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Updated: 10 Oct 2018
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Created byAlin Enache
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London Docklands
Development Corporation
'Post LDDC for more info'The Urban Development Corporations
were set up in the 1980s primarily to
regenerate inner city areas.
The boards made up of people from local
businesses and were encouraged to buy
land in order to build infrastructure and
attract private investmentThe "City Challenge",
where cities had to compete
with each other for government
regeneration grants. This encouraged
cities to solve social, economic,
and environmental problems to
get a government grantHulme City Challenge Partnership,
Manchester"New Deals for Communities" partnerships were established to carry out
a 10 year strategic programme designed to transform
deprived neighbourhoods, and improve lives of residents and local
businessesDevonport Regeneration Company.
PlymouthThere have been calls for greater devolution of powers to
English cities, of the type granted to Greater Manchester
in 2014. Some feel like this will lead to more effective
place based urban policies.Periods
Thatcher (Conservatives) 1979 - 1991Major
(Conservatives)
1991 - 1997Blair & Brown (Labour) 1997 - 2010Cameron & May
(Conservatives)
2010 - PresentEmphasis given to property-led initiative and the creation of an
entrepreneurial cultureUrban Development
Corporations (1980s)Partnership schemes and
competition held policiesArea Based InitiativesThe Future
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