What is regeneration?
Regeneration is a term that means different
things to different people, ranging from large scale activities
that promote economic growth to neighbourhood interventions that
improve quality of life. The Government's view is that regeneration
is a set of activities that reverse economic, social and physical
decline in areas where market forces will not do so without
support of government.
In doing so regeneration should:
- Secure long-term change by tackling barriers to growth and
reducing worklessness – moving communities and individuals from
dependence to independence.
- Improve places and make them more attractive to residents and
investors, enabling new and existing businesses to proposer;
- Foster ambition and unlock potential in the most deprived areas
by breaking cycles of poverty; enabling everyone in society to gain
more power in decisions made which affect them,
and to take advantage of the economic opportunities that
regeneration brings;
- Supplement (not replace) and help to improve the flexibility
and targeting of the mainstream government services in
underperforming areas;
- Deliver sustainable development which contributes to people’s
satisfaction with where they live as well as a wider Governments
goals; and
- Open up opportunities to create more equal communities
(Taken from the Review of Sub-national Economic Development and
Regeneration, HM treasury, Department for Business, Enterprise and
Regulatory Reform, and Communities and Local Government, July
2007)
Key regeneration outcomes from the Allerdale Corporate
Improvement Plan 2008 - 2013 include:
- Reduce worklessness in most deprived areas
- New and existing businesses encouraged to grow
- Land brought back into use for employment
Key projects
and activities in Allerdale are:
- Developing and managing sustainable regeneration partnerships,
programmes and projects within all key localities
- Working with West
Cumbria Local Strategic Partnership partners to reduce the rate
of worklessness in Allerdale with targeted support towards the
worst performing neighbourhoods
- Implement transformational activity to secure sustainable
economic growth of West Cumbria and increase in Gross Value Added
based on energy and environmental technologies in line with the
Energy Coast
Masterplan
- Maximising European
funding streams to increase economic opportunities for all our
urban and rural communities
- Complete the Port
of Workington investment plan
- Encourage the creation of new businesses through delivery of
the
enterprise development project
- To reduce the rates of worklessness in Allerdale with targeted
support towards the neighbourhoods in most need.