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About neighbourhood renewal
Improving the quality of life of people in the most deprived areas to ensure that no-one is disadvantaged by where they live
Our neighbourhood renewal team is responsible for overseeing the Government's neighbourhood renewal strategy.
Under this strategy a range of different programmes has been established to determine local needs and to find new ways of fighting deprivation in our poorest, most deprived communities. The aim is that within 10-20 years no-one should be seriously disadvantaged by where they live.
The National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal responds to local circumstances rather than directing everything from Whitehall. It aims to harness the hundreds of billions of pounds spent by key government departments rather than relying on one-off regeneration spending.
The initiatives include:
New Deal for Communities partnerships - established in 39 neighbourhoods across England to bring local communities and organisations together to tackle problems in an intensive and co-ordinated way. Over the ten-year life of the programme, they will receive approximately £2 billion to tackle five themes:
- poor job prospects
- high crime levels
- educational under-achievement
- poor health
- problems with housing and the physical environment
Neighbourhood management, working with local organisations to improve and link their services at a local neighbourhood level.
Neighbourhood wardens, providing a highly visible, uniformed, semi-official presence in residential and public areas, town centres and high-crime areas.
Local Strategic Partnerships
Neighbourhood renewal encourages communities to play a central role.
Organisations like the health authorities, local and regional government, police, business, voluntary and community groups are drawn together in an umbrella group known as a Local Strategic Partnership (LSP).
These LSPs are responsible for creating a Local Area Agreement (LAA). This is a three-year agreement setting out the priorities for their particular area. The idea is that, with everyone working together they have the power to achieve a much higher standard of services for their community.
Research
The neighbourhood renewal team within Communities and Local Government monitors the progress of the National Strategy on Neighbourhood Renewal, assessing the barriers and commissioning independent evaluations. We continue to develop government understanding of the problems of deprived neighbourhoods.
For more information on neighbourhood renewal visit our practitioners' site or the website www.neighbourhood.gov.uk where there are factsheets and information to support local initiatives.
