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Summary

In March 1999 the DETR commissioned action research into the Millennium Villages initiative and its contribution to sustainable development, and to stimulate debate about the creation of sustainable communities. The project had key aims to:

• support the development of sustainable communities in a wide range of contexts, including local housing and regeneration programmes in urban areas, small towns and rural areas; and
• propose a framework to facilitate the subsequent evaluation of the Millennium Villages initiative and to draw out any transferable lessons which could be fed back into their current development.

In outline, the study involved the following activities:

• refining a working definition of sustainable development as a basis for developing a coherent set of sustainable community objectives;
• devising and proposing an evaluation framework;
• assessing five places against the framework: the two Millennium Villages were used (Greenwich and Allerton Bywater), plus an 'Urban Village' (West Silvertown, London), a Housing Action Trust development (Waltham Forest, London), and the Duchy of Cornwall's Poundbury scheme (Dorset). This included interviews with key players at each place as well as national stakeholders, site visits, and in-depth interviews.
• drawing on secondary research, project implementation knowledge, and good practice from elsewhere, to combine with the evaluation framework application in forming views on the potential and measurability of the factors under review.

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