Regenerating The English Coalfields
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Regenerating The English Coalfields
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Author : Great Britain. National Audit Office
language : en
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Release Date : 2009
Regenerating The English Coalfields written by Great Britain. National Audit Office and has been published by The Stationery Office this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Business & Economics categories.
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
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Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts
language : en
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Release Date : 2010-03-10
Regenerating The English Coalfields written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts and has been published by The Stationery Office this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-10 with Business & Economics categories.
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
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Author : Katy Bennett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Coalfields Regeneration written by Katy Bennett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Business & Economics categories.
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.
A Mine Of Opportunities
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Author : Audit Commission for Local Authorities and the National Health Service in England and Wales
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
A Mine Of Opportunities written by Audit Commission for Local Authorities and the National Health Service in England and Wales and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Coal mines and mining categories.
Regeneration Of The Coalfield Areas
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Author : C. Critcher
language : en
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Release Date : 1995
Regeneration Of The Coalfield Areas written by C. Critcher and has been published by Burns & Oates this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Technology & Engineering categories.
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.
Regenerating The Coalfields
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Author : Royce Logan Turner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Regenerating The Coalfields written by Royce Logan Turner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Business & Economics categories.
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.
Urban Regeneration In The Uk
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Author : Andrew Tallon
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-06-07
Urban Regeneration In The Uk written by Andrew Tallon and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-07 with Political Science categories.
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.
Coalfields And Neighbouring Cities
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Author : Joseph Rowntree Foundation
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007-01-01
Coalfields And Neighbouring Cities written by Joseph Rowntree Foundation and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with Coal mines and mining categories.
Developing Coalfields Communities
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Author : David Waddington
language : en
Publisher: Policy Press
Release Date : 2003-12-03
Developing Coalfields Communities written by David Waddington and has been published by Policy Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-12-03 with Political Science categories.
In 1998, following a sobering report by the Coalfields Task Force, New Labour unveiled a £350 million package of measures to remedy coalfield deprivation and social exclusion. This book examines the impact of this investment in Warsop Vale, a village which has starkly emphasised the negative consequences of coalfield decline.
Out Of The Ashes
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Author : David Waddington
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2001
Out Of The Ashes written by David Waddington and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Architecture categories.
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.