The Same but Different

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The Same but Different

• Delivering regeneration on both sides of the
  border

Helen Forsyth Regeneration Director
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Creating Communities of choice for all
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Background

• 7,000 properties 80 social
• Population decline 15 in 10 years
• Lack of choice in housing
• Limited job opportunities
• Shortage of essential services
• Poor transport links

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Master Planning and Delivery

• One Partner for both parts
• Competed with private developers
• Local community originally opposed
• Residents on panel
• We were interested in the people who would live
  there, not just the buildings
• In it for the long term

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The process 2002 -2006

• Created evidence for change
• Offer substantial community involvement
• Did not duplicate council role

• Took risks
• Created formal partnership with council and local
  people and other stakeholders

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No Public meetings

• Exhibitions
• Events
• Home visits
• Mothers and toddlers
• Other hard to reach groups
• Questionnaires and face to face surveys
• Focus groups, away days, weekends, informal walks
  
• You name it we probably did it.

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Principles and Promises

• We issued a promise about how we would deal
  with people
• We are developing a promise for working with
  business
• We developed principles of place making and
  worked with local people in workshops to do it

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Knowing the community

• 475 million over 15 years

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Where are we now Scotland

• Communities Scotlands regeneration remit
• Financial inclusion
• Working for families
• Anti social behaviour initiatives
• Support for social enterprise
• Reducing no. of developing RSLs
• Homestake
• Community ownership
• Housing market
• Edinburgh stable
• Outlying areas buoyant