Communities and Local Government

The Delivering Sustainable Communities Summit ran from 31 January - 2 February 2005 at the GMEX Centre, Manchester. It was hosted by the Deputy Prime Minister and supported by senior cabinet members from across Government.

The Summit explored the progress in delivering new and regenerated sustainable communities since the publication of the Sustainable Communities Plan in February 2003.

It was the largest event of its kind ever held in the UK and brought together more than 2000 experts from across the UK and overseas to discuss sustainable communities.

Key publications from the summit

• Summit 2005: Report back
  A summary of the Delivering Sustainable Communities Summit, with information on the workshop sessions, the winner of the DPM Award for Sustainable Communities, as well as delegate feedback.

Media Centre

The Summit media centre provided a 24hr service to journalists, editorial specialists and picture editors during the three day event. A chronology of news releases for the event is provided below. To see the streamed videos of the main plenaries, visit www.summittv.tv

Chronology of news releases

1 February 2005

31 January 2005

• Raynsford invites debate on improving neighbourhoods and strengthening leadership (External link)
• Disdvantaged areas are starting to catch up but government efforts for neighbourhood renewal to be increased (External link)
• Prescott unveils plans to give communities more say in local decision-making (External link)
• Finalists announced - Prescott's awards for sustainable communities 2004

9 November 2004

• Blunkett and Clarke attending Prescott's summit (External link)
• £100 million for gateway of opportunity (External link)

14 September 2004

• Prescott announces summit speakers (External link) 

9 August 2004

• DPM opens registration for the largest Sustainable Communities Summit in the UK (External ink)