Appendix 1
Questionnaire

Group A strategy

1.  How does your city define the private sector? Is it:
   Owner/occupiers
   Not for profit organisations ( for example those that get more than 50% of their capital funding from private investment – including banks (e.g. housing associations)
   investors (financing);
   small investors – individuals
   local commercial organisations for whom the profit motive is the prime motive
   national and multi national companies
   others
    
2. What is defined as the public sector?
    
3. What kind of involvement does the private sector have with regeneration (eg strategic planning)?
    
4. Motivation – why is the PS involved? –
   To achieve the same outcomes as if public finance was available; or to create different type of area?
    
5. What kinds of businesses are involved in the case study areas?
    
6. What motivates them to be involved?
    
7. How is the impact of the private sector involvement measured

Group B techniques to get the PS involved

What we need here are examples of techniques or instruments (not just from the case study areas, but from other parts of the city)
e.g.:

Organisations that deliver regeneration and have become PS/ commercial (e.g. STEG – why was it privatised; is it an example to other cities. Privatising Municipality co-ordination, example Dublin, Gorbals Initiative )

How to get PS involved in decision making

Inducing/Levering/Anchoring private sector spend (e.g. improvement & GRO grants, ERDF money)

Co-financing

PPP – e.g. education

Corporate Social Responsibility (charitable work)

Planning/community gain (Dublin/Vilnius)

How local business are helped to develop

For each of these ‘mini case studies’ we need to understand

Why were they formed?

What kind of organisation are they (e.g. Not-for-profit, commercial)?

How do they work?

How do they contribute to the regeneration of the area?

How do you measure their success?

What are the key lessons?

 And finally:

Can we all answer the question: What would be the key message you want to give to the EU president about the involvement of the private sector in regeneration?