Scottish Urban Regeneration Forum Perth, 7th November 2006

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Scottish Urban Regeneration Forum Perth, 7th
November 2006

• Tom Warburton
• Head of Regeneration, One NorthEast

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Outline

• English Context
• Regionalism in England
• Regional Development Agencies
• Policy shifts
• North East of England
• Region
• Regional Economic Strategy
• Use of Assets in Regeneration
• One NorthEasts role and use
• Role of other programmes and use of assets

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English Context

• Regionalism in England
• Regional Development Agencies
• Policy Shifts

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Regionalism in England

• Government Offices and Regional Planning Guidance
  pre 1997
• New Labour in power 1997
• Regional Development Act - 1998
• Set up RDAs in 1999
• Regional Economic Strategies
• Referendum for directly elected Assemblies
  November 2004 - No vote
• Regional Assemblies (non-elected)
• Regional Spatial Strategies statutory role in
  land use planning
• Regional Housing Strategies/ Boards (84
  million/annum in NE)
• Regional Transport Strategies/ interim Boards
  (47 million/ annum in NE)

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Regional Development Agencies
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Regional Development Agencies

• 8 Regions (plus LDA in London)
• 2 billion per annum
• One NorthEast has around 250 million /annum
  highest per capita
• Statutory role from Act
• economic development and regeneration
• business efficiency, investment, competitiveness
• promote employment
• development and application of skills
• contribute to sustainable development

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Policy Shifts Regions

• New Deal for Communities
• Neighbourhood Renewal
• Sustainable Communities Plan/ Housing
• City Regional debate
• Local Government White Paper
• Transport investment/ Boards
• Communities England The review of Regeneration
  (English Partnerships and Housing Corporation
  merger?)
• Sub-National Review
• CSR 2007
• Quirk Review of Community Ownership and
  Management

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Policy shifts RDAs

• Single pot from 11 previous programmes - 2002
• Role on Housing Boards
• Role on Transport Boards
• PSA 2
• New Targetary Framework - 2005
• Independent Performance Assessment - 2006
• CSR 2007

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North East of England

• Region
• Regional Economic Strategy

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North East economic performance
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RES priorities

• Collective regional leadership
• Business
• Enterprise
• Business solutions
• Preparing for structural change
• People
• Skills
• Economic inclusion
• Place
• Strategic transformational regeneration
• Business accommodation
• Transport ICT connectivity
• Promoting, enhancing and protecting our natural,
  heritage and cultural assets

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RES targets

• Move from 80 of national average GVA per head to
  90 of national average GVA per head by 2016
• Achieve sustainable economic growth through
• Increased participation Tackle worklessness
  unemployment to increase economic activity rate
  to UK average. (61,000 to 73,000 jobs created by
  2016)
• Greater productivity Focus on raising GVA per
  head i.e. average contribution of each individual
  worker to GVA. (18,500 to 22,000 new businesses
  created by 2016)

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North East economic performance
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The RES Principles

• Increase productivity and participation
• Tackle barriers and constraints
• Fewer, bigger more strategic interventions
• Clear investment criteria
• Maximise economic impact
• Sustainability

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Use of Assets in Regeneration

• One NorthEasts role and use
• Role of other programmes and use of assets

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One NorthEast Assets in Regeneration

• RDA Role
• Economic development
• Economic Inclusion - barriers to labour market
  participation
• Community assets vehicles
• Local Development Trust (particularly in rural
  settlements)
• Some enterprise assets vehicles
• Special Purpose Vehicles/ Local Asset Backed
  Investment vehicles
• Private leverage vehicles using public owned
  assets or cash
• Local, City Regional, Regional, Northern?

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Role of other programmes

• More local community based programmes
• Neighbourhood Renewal/ LSP
• Sustainable Communities Plan
• New Deal for Communities
• Sure start etc
• One NorthEast linked but not core role

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Community management assets

• Quirk Review October 2006
• Build on Communities taking control
• Stephen Thake study of Community assets
• Reports to Ruth Kelly and Ed Miliband in Spring
  2007
• Community Interest Companies
• Potential for asset locked vehicles

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Summary

• English Context
• Regionalism in England
• Regional Development Agencies
• Policy shifts
• North East of England
• Region
• Regional Economic Strategy
• Use of Assets in Regeneration
• One NorthEasts role and use
• Role of other programmes and use of assets