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Regenerating the English Coalfields

Author : Great Britain. National Audit Office
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780102963359
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (633 download)

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Download or read book Regenerating the English Coalfields written by Great Britain. National Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2009 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whitehall initiatives to revive former coalfield communities have helped to make them more attractive places to live and work but many remain among the most deprived areas in England and opportunities to help train local people and promote local businesses have been missed. The regeneration effort has three strands: the National Coalfields Programme, to decontaminate and find uses for former coalfield sites; the Coalfield Regeneration Trust, to provide grants to community projects; and the Enterprise fund, to support businesses. The cost for these three schemes is £630 million to date and spending is set to reach almost £1.1 billion. The Programme expects to have treated 90 per cent of land by its target completion date of 2012 and it will take twice the ten-year timescale of the original Programme to achieve its aims for housing and employment space. While the Trust has exceeded most of its targets, because of strict funding cycles for departments it can currently offer support only up to 2011 and so the future of many projects is at risk. The Department took five years to put the Enterprise Fund in place because of delays in meeting state aid requirements and protracted and unsuccessful negotiations with a private bank. The NAO also found there is no overall strategy to coordinate the three initiatives and each reports and accounts for its work in isolation. A forum established in 2007 to co-ordinate efforts across Whitehall has met only six times, is poorly attended and has no substantive actions to date. At the local level the NAO found the Trust and the Fund could work more closely with the National Coalfields Programme to help train people to benefit from jobs created by the regeneration and to promote local business moving onto employment space developed on the sites. In addition, the Homes and Communities Agency and some Regional Development Agencies each claim all the credit for jobs created on coalfield sites, resulting in over-reporting of the benefits

Regenerating the English coalfields

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780215544520
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (445 download)

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Download or read book Regenerating the English coalfields written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2010-03-10 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviving the former English coalfields is one of the largest regeneration challenges over the last 30 years. Between 1981 and 2004 over 190,000 people lost their jobs in coal mining. The speed and extent of pit closures resulted in severe economic, social and environmental deprivation in many communities. In response, the Department for Communities and Local Government developed three specific initiatives to regenerate coalfield areas, involving almost 1.1 billion pounds of public money.As at July 2009, the three initiatives had spent 630 million pounds and had brought 54 former coalfield sites back into working use, and enabled private development of 2,700 houses and 1.1 million square metres of employment space.Thirteen years after the start of the initiatives, the Department still lacks a clear vision and has no overarching strategy for the regeneration of these areas, has not sufficiently coordinated the three strands of the regeneration, and has failed to coordinate wider Government activity. In consequence, training and support to help former coalfield communities find employment has rarely been linked to job opportunities created on coalfield sites.The Committee is concerned about the value for money of these initiatives. The Department does not know what improvement has made to the lives of people in the coalfield areas. It does not have a robust assessment to prove to the true number of additional jobs created nor the business occupancy rates for employment space on the redeveloped sites, or the number of people from former coalfield communities who have benefited. Although progress has been made regeneration has cost the taxpayer much more than originally expected and taken longer than planned. The Department needs to develop more sophisticated benchmarks that take into account the different levels of contamination on a site and allow separate evaluation of the incremental costs to develop housing and employment space.

Coalfields Regeneration

Author : Katy Bennett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coalfields Regeneration written by Katy Bennett and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coalfields regeneration tells a story of social change and the attempts made by communities to reconstruct their lives in the context of destructive economic and competitive processes. While the report focuses on British coalfields, which have been particularly affected by these changes, it has a broader provenance. There are lessons to be learned for regeneration strategies in other areas (urban and rural) that have experienced such changes, especially when they, too, were formerly mono-industrial places, dependent on a single economic activity for their economic well-being.The former coalfields of Britain are among the poorest places in Europe and are beset with problems of high unemployment, poverty, social exclusion, disaffection and petty crime. The problems of these places are exacerbated by their former reliance on one industry which has all but disappeared, and by the absence of small and medium-sized enterprises and long-term foreign direct investment to provide replacement employment and a social focus for the communities that live there.Based on in-depth and personal studies of communities in two coalfields, the report:situates the socioeconomic changes in these places within a context of general coalfield decline in Britain;assesses current regeneration strategies and organisations;looks at best practice for community development;discusses policy implications.Coalfields regeneration argues that the extent to which local initiatives can begin to regenerate positive change will ultimately depend on policies made elsewhere and that existing top-down approaches have not led to successful regeneration of the coalfields. It concludes that the persistent problems characteristic of former coalfield areas would be better tackled by regeneration initiatives that focus on the needs of communities rather than on national policy directives.Coalfields regeneration is invaluable reading for all those involved in community development and regeneration policy making and anyone interested in area regeneration strategies and socially excluded communities.

Regeneration of the Coalfield Areas

Author : C. Critcher
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Regeneration of the Coalfield Areas written by C. Critcher and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1995 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The UK government's pit closure programme dramatically highlights the steady decline of heavy industry, especially coal and steel, during the post-war period, in many industrial regions of Europe. Whilst the political controversy over pit closures may have died down in the UK, the problem remains for planners and policy makers of regenerating areas which previously had high levels of employment and strong communities.

A Mine of Opportunities

Author : Audit Commission for Local Authorities and the National Health Service in England and Wales
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781862405585
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book A Mine of Opportunities written by Audit Commission for Local Authorities and the National Health Service in England and Wales and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Out of the Ashes?

Author : David Waddington
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780117027299
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Out of the Ashes? written by David Waddington and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-term decline of the British coal industry has had serious and lasting implications for miners, their families and communities. Out of the Ashes? Presents an authoritative review of the history and current state of this process. Drawing on their own research in Nottinghamshire and South Yorkshire mining communities, the authors chart the impact of pit closures, of their threat, on community life. The viability and working practices of the restructured industry are examined alongside case studies of successful and failed worker take-overs. The management of decline and attempts to stimulate the local economies affected are compared with very different strategies pursued in Germany, Belgium and Spain. The book concludes with an examination of the likely future of what remains of the industry and the prospects of the communities it once supported. Written in an accessible style, Out of the Ashes? Will engage all who have a professional or personal interest in the decline of the British coal mining industry, as well as academic and students of regional studies, sociology, psychology and the social sciences in general.

Urban Regeneration in the UK

Author : Andrew Tallon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136629629
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book Urban Regeneration in the UK written by Andrew Tallon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-07 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Striking transformations are taking place in the urban landscape. The regeneration of urban areas in the UK and around the world has become an increasingly important issue amongst governments and populations since the global economic downturn. This textbook provides an accessible and critical synthesis of urban regeneration in the UK, analyzing key policies, approaches, issues and debates. It places the historical and contemporary regeneration agenda in context. The second edition has been extensively revised and updated to incorporate advances in literature, policy and case study examples, as well as giving greater discussion to the New Labour period of urban policy, and the urban agenda and regeneration policies of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition government elected in 2010. The book is divided into five sections, with Section I establishing the conceptual and political framework for urban regeneration in the UK. Section II traces policies that have been adopted by central government to influence the social, economic and physical development of cities, including early town and country and housing initiatives, community-focused urban policies of the late 1960s, entrepreneurial property-led regeneration of the 1980s, competition for urban funds in the 1990s, urban renaissance and neighborhood renewal policies of the late 1990s and early 2000s, and new approaches since 2010 which have sought to stimulate enterprise and embrace localism in an age of austerity resulting from the global economic downturn. Section III illustrates the key thematic policies and strategies that have been pursued by cities themselves, focusing particularly on improving economic competitiveness, tackling social disadvantage and promoting sustainable urban regeneration. Section IV summarizes key issues and debates facing urban regeneration in the early 2010s, and speculates upon future directions in an era of economic and political uncertainty. Urban Regeneration in the UK combines the approaches taken by central government and cities themselves to regenerate urban areas, providing a comprehensive and up-to-date synthesis of the field. Each chapter also contains case studies, study questions, suggested further reading and websites, making this an essential resource for undergraduate students interested in Urban Studies, Geography, Planning and the Built Environment.

Regenerating the Coalfields

Author : Royce Logan Turner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781856284141
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book Regenerating the Coalfields written by Royce Logan Turner and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of the de-industrialization of the English coalfields. It looks at the activities of the CCC and the NUM in pursuing the needs of the coalfield dwellers. Case studies are used to examine the problem of regeneration. Areas discussed include Doncaster, Barnsley and Bolsover.

The Shadow of the Mine

Author : Huw Beynon
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1839767987
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (397 download)

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Download or read book The Shadow of the Mine written by Huw Beynon and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2024-03-19 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one personified the age of industry more than the miners. The Shadow of the Mine tells the story of King Coal in its heyday – and what happened to mining communities after the last pits closed. The Shadow of the Mine tells the story of King Coal in its heyday, the heroics and betrayals of the Miners’ Strike, and what happened to mining communities after the last pits closed. No one personified the age of industry more than the miners. Coal was central to the British economy, powering its factories and railways. It carried political weight, too. In the eighties the miners risked everything in a year-long strike against Thatcher’s shutdowns. Their defeat doomed a way of life. The lingering sense of abandonment in former mining communities would be difficult to overstate. Yet recent electoral politics has revolved around the coalfield constituencies in Labour’s Red Wall. Huw Beynon and Ray Hudson draw on decades of research to chronicle these momentous changes through the words of the people who lived through them. This edition includes a new postscript on why Thatcher’s war on the miners wasn’t good for green politics. ‘Excellent’ NEW STATESMAN ‘Brilliant’ TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT ‘Enlightening’ GUARDIAN

Regenerating the Coal Fields

Author : Gareth Rees
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781904767091
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Regenerating the Coal Fields written by Gareth Rees and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Coalfields and Neighbouring Cities

Author : Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781859355824
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book Coalfields and Neighbouring Cities written by Joseph Rowntree Foundation and published by . This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Recession and Beyond

Author : David Bailey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136664726
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book The Recession and Beyond written by David Bailey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How has the recession impacted on firms, people and places? How have local and regional authorities responded? This book aims to answer these questions by offering an overview of the impacts of the recession on people and places and how it has affected local authorities in the UK and other OECD countries. The volume makes a fresh contribution to understanding local economic development and governance by providing a unique perspective and original data on the way local authorities have dealt with the recent economic shock across countries.

Fair Play

Author : Daniel Dorling
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1847428797
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Fair Play written by Daniel Dorling and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encompassing an extensive range of print and online media, this reader brings together a selection of highly influential writings by Danny Dorling which look at inequality and social justice.

Community Under Attack

Author : Ken Coates
Publisher : Spokesman Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
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Download or read book Community Under Attack written by Ken Coates and published by Spokesman Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Town and Country Planning in the UK

Author : J. B. Cullingworth
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 041521775X
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book Town and Country Planning in the UK written by J. B. Cullingworth and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Town and Country Planning in the UK has become the bible of British planning. It provides an explanation of the nature of planning, the institutions and organisations involved, the plans and other tools used by planners, planning policies and more.

The Post-Industrial Landscape as Site for Creative Practice

Author : Gwen Heeney
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527513025
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book The Post-Industrial Landscape as Site for Creative Practice written by Gwen Heeney and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together experts in the fields of art history, visual arts, music, cultural geography, curatorial practice and landscape architecture to explore the role of material memory in the post-industrial landscape and the ways in which that landscape can act as a site for many forms of creative practice. It examines the role of material memory in the siting of public artworks and politically inspired installation art within the socio-economic post-industrial landscape. The post-industrial ruin as a place for innovation in the curatorial process is also investigated, as are social memory and the complexities of inscribing memory into places. A number of chapters focus on photography and its important role in recording memory as transformation, abandonment and erosion. Artists and musicians present personal case studies examining the siting of permanent and temporary artworks which can invoke memory of both culture and place. The land itself and its associated histories of post-industry are explored in artistic terms investigating dislocation, wasted spaces and extinction. Landscape architects and cultural geographers explore the aesthetic of the urban ruin, its natural and human ecologies and the re-wilding of urban spaces. The volume provokes discussion by a group of diverse experts on a very contemporary subject.

Town and Country Planning in the UK

Author : Barry Cullingworth
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134246099
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Town and Country Planning in the UK written by Barry Cullingworth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-10-16 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised fourteenth edition reinforces this title's reputation as the bible of British planning. It provides a through explanation of planning processes including the institutions involved, tools, systems, policies and changes to land use.