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FINAL REPORT
Regenerating neighbourhoods in partnership
– learning from emergent practices |
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Table of contents
On definitions and strategic goals
1. What do we mean by regeneration?
- A process for renewing geographical neighbourhoods in decline, leading to improved outcomes for both the local community and the city as a whole.
2. What do we mean by ‘the community’
- Neighbourhoods are made up of complex networks, and involve many stakeholders. Regeneration agencies often have a narrow understanding of 'community'(often only residents), and in practice are unable to reach and involve wide sections of the resident population (especially minority groups). Only the 'usual suspects' appear in many local groups or nobody at all. In this paper, the private sector is considered as a major stakeholder with employers and employees of the neigh-bourhood being part of the complex networks.
3. What do we mean by ‘private public partnership’?
4. What do we mean by the private sector?
- We have defined the private sector in terms of what it does – in and for the neigh-bourhood. Our area of concern in ENTRUST is commercial organisations – SMEs and larger businesses; both local focused (e.g. small shopkeepers, real estate owners and developers) and beyond local (including city, regional and multi-national companies). We have not considered individuals – as home owners and consumers; social economy organisations – normally not for profit organisations that mainly undertake activities that are normally regarded as part of the public sector
The box below sets out the type of businesses in some of the ENTRUST neighbour-hoods. The majority are small scale commercial businesses – mainly retail and services rather than manufacturing or publicly owned or third sector:
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Local businessmen and their specific organisations; especially retail and services; house owners and privately organised public controlled housing compa-nies; private housing companies; start-ups from the creativity industries; privately organised, but publicly financed labour market companies (Berlin).
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Public and private companies, developers and private investors, and local busi-ness organizations, traders etc. (Dublin).
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Private Owners; retailers mainly participate in the business sector. One main emphasis lies in the revaluation of shopping streets also in the service sector networks are being built to promote competitiveness. One further main empha-sis lays in the promotion of start-ups. (Hamburg)
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While the private sector is a resource for the regeneration process, at the same time can benefit from it. Commercial organisations can be 'victims' in deprived neighbourhoods – for example, of high crime rates and of the difficulty of attracting staff who perceive the neighbourhoods as unsafe and prefer the more attrac-tive images of other districts.
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5. What do we mean by partnership?
- An approach and attitude of doing things together
- Working together in the broadest possible sense, either formally or informally
- Sum of parts greater than the individual contributions – including financially
- It can be a formal structure with a steering group/board which represents the different stakeholders in the neighbourhood and having a strategic role
- It can be working together on individual projects, within a predetermined strategy – e.g. joint funding
Addressing practitioners   Next
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