Regeneration Network

Offenders will be more likely to get away with their crimes as police numbers are cut in the wake of the government’s spending review, a thinktank has said.

New local enterprise partnerships will have only a limited role in shaping the delivery of European regeneration funding after the government confirmed DCLG will run the programme.

A drop in the number of new jobs has exposed the government’s economic strategy as a sham, according to the head of Unison.

England’s 12 core cities could have to pay more than £3m in redundancy costs if executive mayors are created, LGC analysis suggests.

Council workers in Manchester are to be asked if they want to vote on strikes over plans to axe 2,000 jobs in the first sign of industrial unrest about redundancies caused by spending cuts.

Economic recovery will be “unevenly spread” across the country, with some cities needing extra government help to create jobs this year, according to a new study.

Grant Shapps has written to the LGA expressing his “disappointment” that some councils have made significant cuts to their Supporting People programmes despite insisting that it is

Greater Manchester is developing plans for an innovative US-style funding tool that will enable its 10 councils to pool business rates across the city region and borrow against future revenue to fu

The local government finance settlement frontloads cuts, meaning councils will suffer bigger reductions in the first of the two-year period than they will in the second.

Regeneration strategies that attempted to boost cities by building new housing in deprived areas failed because they were not able to counter market forces that were pushing people away from those

Every pound invested in regeneration generates £2.30 worth of direct social benefit on average, a government-commissioned report has found.

On 19 October 2010 at the Homeless Link Conference, Housing Minister Grant Shapps announced a programme of investment in new community based services to help single homeless people find and sustain

The scale and speed of the public spending cuts will leave civil society with an impossible job to do and not nearly enough support, according to a new report.

A pilot that will involve using an innovative funding mechanism to fund a Government project aimed at reducing reoffending rates has received £6 million from the Big Lottery Fund.

Grassroots community groups are an "easy target" for government budget cuts, a think-tank has warned.

Voluntary and community sector organisations are 'welcome' to get involved in the negotiations to establish LEPs which are set to regional development agencies (RDAs).

Developer Peel Holdings has independently submitted a bid to ministers to create a local enterprise partnership in the North-West.

 Proposals to regenerate part of Rochdale's town centre have taken a step forward after the council's development partner Genr8 agreed a funding deal with real estate investor Kajima.

The Government’s Regional Growth Fund to provide support for projects that offer potential for sustainable economic growth and new private sector employment was launched on 30th June

An inquiry into new Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) was launched by a committee of MPs in July.

Regeneration projects in the North West could receive an investment boost after the selection of a preferred bidder to establish a major new fund.

The new public-private partnerships LEPs are to be handed a "lead role" in coordinating funding through the coalition's planned £1 billion Regional Growth Fund.

More than 100 projects that approached the NWDA for funding in the current financial year will not receive the cash following £52 million of cuts to the agency's budget in 2010/11.

The Big Lottery Fund  has launched a £200m  fund to help regenerate up to 150 neighbourhoods across England that have previously found it difficult to access renewal funding.

Development trusts and community groups could lose their ability to innovate if more start delivering statutory public services under the Government's 'Big Society' plans.

Contracts worth £1.64 million are cancelled by Government as Right to Bid initiative is shut down in system overhaul.

Four Communities in England will be eligible to apply for funding from a new Big Society Bank under plans outlined today by the Prime Minister to create a generation of volunteers. <

The housing minister has signalled his intention to scrap a nationwide survey that gauges residents' perceptions of their areas and local services.

Funding for the LEPs with which the coalition government intends to replace RDAs could come from local authorities pooling their resources in addition to coming from the budgets of RDAs.

The coalition Government today announced plans to allow communities in rural areas to build homes, shops and other facilities without requiring planning permission.