The New Deal for Communities Experience: A final assessment

Elaine Batty, Christina Beatty, Mike Foden, Paul Lawless, Sarah Pearson and Ian Wilson Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research Sheffield Hallam University

Year of publication: 2010

This report collates the evidence presented in a series of final reports from the national evaluation of the New Deal for Communities (NDC) Programme carried out from 2001 to 2010.

Topic: Anchor institutions, Equality, Health, Regeneration, Society

Type: Report

State of the Nation 2017: Social Mobility in Great Britain

The Social Mobility Commission: The Rt Hon Alan Milburn (Chair) The Rt Hon Baroness Gillian Shephard (Deputy Chair) Paul Gregg, Professor of Economic and Social Policy, University of Bath David Johnston, Chief Executive of the Social Mobility Foundation

Year of publication: 2017

The annual report by the Social Mobility Commission analyses social mobility through the prism of the Social Mobility Index. Using 16 indicators, the index assesses the education, employability and housing prospects of people living in each of England’s 324 local authority areas. The index highlights where people from disadvantaged backgrounds are most and least likely to make social progress.

Topic: Economy, Environment, Equality, Health, Society, Value, Social Mobility

Type: Report

regeneration project in Scotland (Vineburgh, Irvine North Ayrshire)

SROI Network on behalf of Cunninghame Housing Association

Year of publication: 2012

This research was conducted on behalf of Cunninghame Housing Association to examine the economic, social and environmental impact of housing and regeneration activity on the Vineburgh estate in North Ayrshire. SROI is a method developed to measure the social and environmental impact of activities and put a monetary value on them (although most have no tradeable value).

Topic: Anchor institutions, Economy, Environment, Equality, Health, Placemaking, Regeneration, Society, Value

Type: Report

Good design: the fundamentals

Richard Simmons, CABE

Year of publication: 2008

This essay focuses on the importance of good design. Simmons believes people must be at the heart of strategy for the built environment. Places which delight tend to be valued and cared for - those which do not tend to cost more in crime, high maintenance, poor health and social exclusion.

Topic: Economy, Environment, Placemaking, Regeneration, Urban design, Value

Type: Report

Creating Strong Communities: How to Measure the Social Sustainability of New Housing Developments

Social Life, University of Reading and Berkeley Group

Year of publication: 2015

Social sustainability describes the extent to which a neighbourhood supports individual and collective well-being. This report attempts to create a framework by which to measure social sustainability, with a focus on the design of new residential developments. Four case studies are included, all developments by the Berkeley Group, who commissioned the work. Affordable housing formed 30%-50% of the homes in the case study developments.

Topic: Culture, Environment, Health, Placemaking, Regeneration, Society, Urban design

Type: Report

Challenging the rhetoric of stigmatisation: the benefits of concentrated poverty in Toronto’s Regent Park

Martine August, Department of Geography and Program in Planning, University of Toronto

Year of publication: 2014

This academic paper examines the experience of residents of Toronto’s Regent Park, Canada’s first and largest public housing estate, through the process of regeneration and redevelopment.

Topic: Environment, Placemaking, Regeneration, Society, Urban design

Type: Report

Should we move public sector jobs out of London?

Centre for Cities

Year of publication: 2017

This report looks at moving publicly funded jobs out of London. It focuses on the move of the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to Newport, and the BBC’s relocation to Salford. It considers the potential benefits of job relocation, including the effects on and for different types of job.

Topic: Economy, Equality, Placemaking, Regeneration, Society

Type: Report

Household repayment behaviour and neighbourhood effects

Sarah Brown, University of Sheffield

Year of publication: 2014

This paper explores the connection between financial distress, particularly housing payments, and the strength of neighbourhood connections.

Topic: Economy, Placemaking, Society

Type: journal article

Partnerships for Demolition: The Governance of Urban Renewal in East Germany’s Shrinking Cities

Matthias Bernt, Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology, UFZ — Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig-Halle, Permoserstrasse 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany

Year of publication: 2009

This article in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research considers the experience of cities in eastern Germany, where rapid population and de-industrialisation have posed questions for urban governance that are not answered by the typical pro-growth or ‘entrepreneurial’ approach to local politics.

Topic: Anchor institutions, Economy, Placemaking, Regeneration, Society, Urban design, Value

Type: journal article

The Final Report of the Industrial Strategy Commission

The Industrial Strategy Commission

Year of publication: 2017

The Commission was formed independent of government. It aimed for a fresh and robust perspective on shaping the UK’s new industrial strategy.

Topic: Anchor institutions, Economy, Equality, Regeneration, Society, Value

Type: Report