Priority areas

English Partnerships' investment in the next few years of its role will be tightly focused on the areas of greatest need, currently definded as:

Areas of major housing growth in the wider south east including, but going beyond, the four target areas (centred on Milton Keynes and the South Midlands, the London-Standstead-Cambridge-Peterborough Corridor, Thames Gateway and Ashford)

Housing Market Renewal areas, including Pathfinders

The Coalfields

Strategic brownfield sites or hardcore brownfield land in, or adjacent to, any of the above priority areas or in areas of housing pressure or housing abandonment.

The 20 per cent most deprived wards in the country, as defined by Communities and Local Government and currently adopted for a number of measures, such as stamp duty exemptions.