Addressing transport barriers to work in low income neighbourhoods: A review of evidence and practice

Richard Crisp, Tony Gore, Lindsey McCarthy - Sheffield Hallam

Year of publication: 2017

This research looks at connectivity and low income neighbourhoods. It finds an increasing mismatch between location of housing and major centres of employment.

Topic: Economy, Equality, Infrastructure, Placemaking, Regeneration

Type: Report

Does Gentrification Help or Harm Urban Neighbourhoods? An assessment of the Evidence Base in the Context of the New Urban Agenda

Rowland Atkinson

Year of publication: 2002

A systematic review of research literature on gentrification impacts specifically focused on neighbourhood impacts.

Topic: Placemaking, Regeneration, Society

Type: Report

Development: The Value of Placemaking

Savills

Year of publication: 2016

Through a land value model and series of case studies, this report outlines the financial benefits to placemaking. The model suggests that early investment in placemaking, such as schools, public realm, shops, services and employment, will raise land values by 25%. Early investment releases the potential for higher sales rates and sales values, while later investment leads to a reduction in land value. Early investment does present a development risk, so solutions, such as patient capital and/or Joint Ventures with landowners willing to draw receipts later in the development process, are needed.

Topic: Culture, Economy, Infrastructure, Regeneration, Society, Urban design, Value

Type: Report

Industrial Strategy: A response to the Government’s Green Paper

The Rt Hon the Lord Heseltine of Thenford CH

Year of publication: 2017

This document gives Lord Heseltine’s response to the UK Government Green Paper Building our Industrial Strategy. He sets out how important it is for the Government to have an industrial strategy and proposes eight initial steps to achieve this, including: creating a ministerial committee of all the wealth-generating potential of Whitehall; reporting by departments on how they can contribute to the strategy; organising the Civil Service to respond effectively to the increasing place-based policies of devolution; producing a Competitiveness White Paper, and review devolution of more policy functions (such as skills and employment).

Topic: Economy, Infrastructure

Type: Report

People or Place? Urban policy in the age of austerity

The Work Foundation

Year of publication: 2012

This report discusses whether economic and regeneration policy should be more focused on people rather than places.

Topic: Economy, Placemaking, Regeneration, Society

Type: Report

The economic footprint of UK housing building

Home Builders Federation and Nathaniel Lichfield and Partners

Year of publication: 2015

A research report to highlight the economic impact of house building.

Topic: Economy

Type: Report

Better homes for local people – The Mayor’s Good Practice Guide to Estate Regeneration

Mayor of London

Year of publication: 2018

This good practice guide sets out the principles and mechanisms of estate renewal that the mayor wants to implement across London. The key proposals are: Resident consultation and involvement at every stage of regeneration In the case of demolition there will be:o a mandatory ballot;o social tenants are guaranteed full rights to return and leaseholders and freeholders are given a fair deal; ando the number of social housing properties remains the same or increases.

Topic: Placemaking, Regeneration, Urban design

Type: Report

Meeting the challenge of urban renewal: the G15’s contribution to regenerating London’s estates

G15

Year of publication: 2016

This report outlines the g15’s vision and activity to respond to the housing crisis in London by delivering 14,000 new homes by 2040 through 35 estate regeneration schemes. It sets out the key challenges of regeneration, asks of local and central government and gives case studies to support analysis of the work already undertaken.

Topic: Placemaking, Regeneration, Society, Urban design

Type: Report

A new framework for housing in the North: Report of the Commission for Housing in the North

Northern Housing Consortium

Year of publication: 2016

The report of the Commission for Housing in the North examines the differences between the housing markets in the North of England and the South East, seeking to identify its unique challenges and find solutions that can address these.

Topic: Economy, Placemaking, Regeneration, Value

Type: Report

Striking a (local) grand bargain: How cities and anchor institutions can work together to drive growth and prosperity

National Resource Network (lead author: Neil Kleiman; co-authors: Liza Getsinger, Nancy Pindus and Erika Poethig)

Year of publication: 2015

The report argues that, as large businesses leave American cities, a ‘grand bargain’ must be struck between cities and their anchor institutions, such as universities and hospitals. The authors contend that their relationship should focus not on specific transactions but on identifying shared interests, developing ambitious targets based on these, and then working together to achieve them.

Topic: Anchor institutions, Economy, Placemaking, Regeneration

Type: Policy document