Topics : Neighbourhood Renewal

Evaluation of the Mixed Communities Demonstration Projects

CCHPR is part of a consortium evaluating the Mixed Communities Demonstration Projects. These aim to develop comprehensive approaches to neighbourhood renewal through major changes to the housing stock and tenure / income mix, improvements to the environment and action to reduce worklessness and crime. Whilst previous housing and regeneration programmes have included tenure and income diversification, the MCI aims to do this further and faster to achieve genuine and sustainable change in disadvantaged areas.

Mixed Communities Policy Review

The Minister for Housing & Communities requested a review to explore how Scottish Government policies that aim to create mixed communities are being implemented on the ground. The purpose of the review was to:

1. clarify what housing, regeneration and planning policies the Scottish Government have which should lead to the creation of mixed communities

2. identify whether and how these policies are being implemented and what impact they are having

3. consider policy implications

Mixed Communities Review

CCHPR has been contracted to provide a call-off contract for the Scottish Government. This is to meet some of the analytical needs which the Communities Analytical Services Division (CASD) will have in 2009 and 2010.

CASD provides analytical services to the Scottish Government in the areas of housing, regeneration, planning, and social justice (social and financial inclusion, poverty, and equalities). The call-off contracts enable CASD to obtain smaller analytical services of good quality at short notice and quickly.

Scoping Study to Identify the Contribution of Housing to Urban Renaissance

The purpose of this research is to explore the role of housing development across the West Midlands region in generating urban renaissance.

The Ward Penalty in Birmingham

The Barrow Cadbury Trust approached Land Economy and CCHPR to conduct an investigation into the relationships between race, place and poverty in Birmingham. The study begins from the observation that many of the highly deprived parts of the city, particularly the inner urban areas, are also those with large minority ethnic populations.

The Ward Penalty in Birmingham (Additional Case Studies)

This project extends the previous research on race, place and poverty in Birmingham. This will primarily involve carrying out two additional case studies using the same methods as before, but this time in deprived neighbourhoods in more suburban locations, with a predominantly white British population.

The Working Neighbourhoods Fund Scoping Study

The Working Neighbourhoods Fund was established by Communities and Local Government and the Department for Work and Pensions in 2008. Replacing the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund, it directs funding to 65 local authorities to help them tackle concentrations of worklessness. A team from the Department of Land Economy, under the direction of Prof Peter Tyler and including several members of CCHPR, led the scoping study and interim evaluation of the WNF.

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