Methods
and Actions to Achieve Urban Regeneration
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Economic
Development
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Physical
Improvement
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Environmental
Actions
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Neighbourhood
Strategy
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Training
and Education
Deal with
the social and economic issues of transportation projects
Provide funding for transport measures that support area
regeneration objectives
Give priority to the public transport needs of
regeneration areas within local transport plans and public funding
decisions
Finance and fund
brownfield development
Charge taxes to all forms of private non-residential car
parking provision (see
Sustainable Economy)
Restructure economy towards
sectors that consumes fewer environmental resources in use, manufacturing
or disposal (see
Sustainable Economy)
Charge an environmental impact fees on new development to
reflect its full environmental costs (see
Sustainable Economy)
Charge tax on vacant land, which does not penalise
genuine developers, but which deters owners holding onto land
unnecessarily (see
Sustainable Economy)
Rate houses for environmental rating and running cost
rating, so that house-buyers know what they are getting for their money
(see Sustainable Economy)
Tackle
Low Demand Housing Areas
Enforce the sale of abandoned and dilapidated sites or
buildings
Allow public bodies flexibility to pay disturbance
payments over and above market value in reaching negotiated settlements
for the acquisition of land
Allocate an
above-inflation funds for managing and maintaining the urban environment
Establish
jointly funded management arrangements between local authorities and local businesses
for improving town centres and other commercial
districts (see
Facilitate Economic Success
)
Use fines from criminal damage and community reparation
to repair and maintain the local environment, according to local people’s
stated priorities
Take into account economic needs when designating
employment sites in local development plans (see
Facilitate Economic Success
)
Create revolving funds for land assembly, so that public
investment in the initial costs of site purchase can be off-set by a share
of subsequent gains achieved through regeneration and disposal
Introduce regional regeneration investment companies and funds, to increase
the amount of private finance flowing into the regeneration projects (see
Facilitate Economic Success
)
Pilot estate renewal projects and other area
regeneration projects through the private finance initiative
(see
Facilitate Economic Success
)
Introduce a package of tax measures, providing
incentives for developers, investors, small landlords, owner-occupiers and
tenants to contribute to the regeneration of urban sites and buildings that
would not otherwise be developed (see
Sustainable Economy)
Restrict public subsidy
for social housing developments of more than 25 homes to schemes where homes
for rent are integrated with shared and full-ownership housing
Increase the cost effectiveness of public support for housing renewal by
private owners by using a mix of grants, loans, equity stakes and tax relief
to encourage home improvements
Attract institutional
investment into the residential private rented market
Attract
private investments
Improve
Public Investments
Partnership approach instead of corporatism (see
Facilitate Economic Success
)
Unlock latent demand and expenditures
from current users and visitors
Attract new visitors
Fulfil the Social and Economic Needs of Local People
Work with the market
Facilitate
Economic Success at National, Regional and Local Levels
Develop
Regeneration Projects
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Manage and maintain
the whole urban environment
Maintain land and premises to an acceptable standard
(including public utilities and agencies properties, see Manage and maintain
the whole urban environment)
Design for inclusive and safe public spaces in all forms from grand to intimate
Public facility
planning
Improve the
quality of urban design
Produce an integrated spatial masterplan
for area regeneration schemes
Adopt an integrated approach to design-led regeneration
of different types of urban neighbourhood
Design regeneration projects within a national urban
design framework that is based on key design principles, land use
planning, public funding guidance, and best practice guidelines
Designate home zones by designing streets, reducing
speed limits and use traffic-calming measures
Explicitly plan transport to reduce car journeys,
and continuously increasing the proportion of trips made on foot, bicycle
and public transport
Tackle
Empty Properties and Brownfield Areas
Recycle
Buildings
Provide housing on brownfield land and in recycled
buildings (see
Tackle
Empty Properties and Brownfield Areas and
Recycle
Buildings)
Release
redundant land and buildings owned by public bodies and utilities for
regeneration (see
Tackle
Empty Properties and Brownfield Areas and
Recycle
Buildings)
Develop
new housing on recycled land in urban areas where housing demand is low (see
Tackle
Empty Properties and Brownfield Areas and
Recycle
Buildings)
Take
action against authorities that consistently fail to deliver planning
permissions within a reasonable time period
Prevent low-grade temporary uses, such as car parking,
of derelict and vacant lands
Reduce levels of vacant stock and take action against
owners who refuse to sell their properties or restore them to beneficial
use (see
Tackle
Empty Properties and Brownfield Areas and
Recycle
Buildings)
Restore and use historic buildings left empty by their
owners (see
Tackle Empty Properties and
Brownfield Areas and
Recycle
Buildings)
Facilitate the conversion of more empty space over shops
into flats by providing additional public assistance, including public
equity stakes and business rate reductions (see
Tackle
Empty Properties and Brownfield Areas and
Recycle
Buildings)
Optimise
the Use of Urban Space
Encourage high-density urban developments
Prevent excessively low-density urban development
Link density standards to design quality
Building on opportunities when stock
has strong qualities (water, building of historic quality etc.)
Urban food system planning
Digital and tele-communications
use to improve urban life
Urban
information systems maintenance
Control urban
sprawl
Urban planning
Urban water resource
management
Emergency management
Accelerate the Change
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Remove allocations of greenfield land for housing from
development plans where the allocations are not consistent with
sustainability objectives (see Manage the Land
Supply)
Retain the general presumption against development on
greenfields and designated green belts (see Manage the Land
Supply)
Designate urban green space in
development plans (see Manage the Land
Supply)
Clean up land and bring all contaminated land back into
beneficial use (see Clean up brownfield
sites)
Prevent site owners from contaminating land
Provide site owners with one set of standards, covering contaminated land,
water and waste to work to when resolving problems of site contamination
Do not take further action over contaminated sites once remediation schemes
have been carried out to an agreed standard
Identify, manage and communicate the risks that arise throughout the
assessment, treatment and after-care of contaminated and previously
contaminated sites
Provide certainty and consistency
in the management and sale of contaminated and previously contaminated land
Manage the Land
Supply
Reuse brownfield land (see Manage the Land
Supply)
Clean up brownfield
sites
Use waterways for public transport
Control the
environmental impact of transport
Control
the effect of transport on air quality
Plan
for sustainable transport system
Create comprehensive green pedestrian routes around
and/or across each of major towns and cities
Give priority to the needs of pedestrians and cyclists
in urban development and highway projects
Develop projects that prioritise walking, cycling and
public transport
Specify maximum walking distances to bus stops and other
public transports
Provide cycle storage facilities at stations and
interchanges
Set a maximum standard of one car parking space per
dwelling for all new urban residential development
Provide bus services to all towns
Impose tougher
restrictions on the use of private cars, such as car parking
charges and road
pricing
Encourage
patterns of developments, which reduce the need to travel by car
Development
in highly accessible central urban areas
Use public, less polluting and
more energy efficient modes of travel
Campaign for and promote public transports
Reduce
the need to travel through use of IT and integrated land-use and transport
planning
Exploit the advances in IT to
restructure cities along sustainable lines
Encourage
innovation in goods and services, which use fewer environmental resources
in use, manufacturing or disposal
Waste management
Reduce the amount of untreated waste
disposed to landfill and ensure that landfill practices conform to
acceptable standards (see Waste management)
Minimise waste by reusing, recycling,
re-selling, recovering usable materials or
generating energy from
waste (see Waste management)
Develop options for process improvements
and minimisation initiatives, recycling and assessing the efficiency of
all aspects of waste management services (see Waste management)
Reduce solvent evaporation and emissions
(see Waste management)
Eliminate solvents use and the release of hazardous
sludge (see Waste management)
Increase
the use of renewable energy
Reduce energy use and produce a renewable source of energy
Urban water resource
management
Environmental Impact Assessment
(EIA)
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Neighbourhood Strategy is about the
coordination of efforts and city-wide
approach for regeneration 
net overall economic gain
avoid clustering activities
in certain areas and decline in others
Regeneration
Partnership
Capacity building
Community groups need to
improve their capacity to engage in local economic development and social
initiatives
They need to improve their Skills, Knowledge, Resources and Power &
Influence Thus:
Capacity
building
Build upon and develop the potential
of skills in the area (see
Capacity
building)
Build upon strengths of the members of
the community (see
Capacity
building)
Engage the
community in the brownfield projects
Develop flagship projects to encourage regeneration
Improve housing conditions in poor
area to mobilise the community
Fulfil the
social and economic needs of local people
Allow people to gain democratic control of their cities
(see
Multi-sector
and multi-agency approach and Involve All)
Multi-sector
and multi-agency approach
Involve All
Give local people a stake in the
decision-making process of neighbourhood management, relaxing
regulations and guidelines to make it easier to establish devolved
arrangements (see
Multi-sector
and multi-agency approach and Involve All)
Enable the full involvement of local communities in the urban planning
process (see Involve All)
Reflect the priorities of local people when carrying local environmental
improvements and developing community facilities (see
Fulfil the
social and economic needs of local people)
Create special packages of powers and incentives for authorities and people
to assist neighbourhood renewal
Establish single points of responsibility for carrying environmental
services devolved to designated estates, neighbourhoods or town centres.
Appoint caretakers or wardens for social housing estates
Allow community groups and voluntary organisations to access the resources
needed to tackle derelict buildings and other eyesores that are spoiling
their neighbourhood
Penalise
individuals or organisations that breach regulations related to planning
conditions, noise pollution, littering, fly-tipping and other forms of
anti-social behaviour
Provide an
efficient, reliable and safe transport system
Ensure every low-income housing
estate is properly connected to the town and district centre by
frequent, accessible and affordable public transport (see
Provide an
efficient, reliable and safe transport system)
Prevent
gentrification
Narrowing
the gab between deprived and wealthy neighbourhoods
Develop mixed tenure neighbourhoods and make sure
developers have less scope to buy their way out of their obligations to do
so (see
Prevent
gentrification)
Control the development of
‘social’ housing where there is already over-provision in that neighbourhood
Enable more mixed income housing projects to proceed, including use of more
challenging planning briefs and discounted equity stakes for low to middle
income households in areas where property values are high (see
Prevent
gentrification)
Allocate social housing not
only to accommodate the poor. In unpopular areas, available housing should
be marketed to other groups, including low to middle income working
households and students
Plan, monitor and manage housing demand, to ensure the
early correction of an emerging under-supply or over-supply of housing.
Deal with
the social and economic issues of transportation projects
Improve the use of waterways to revitalise towns and cities
Security and crime
prevention in cities
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Improve education
Provide school buildings, to
accommodate future increases in pupil numbers in high quality facilities
in regenerating urban areas
Train
for skills in demand
Carry
on existing skills provision and identifying skills gaps (see Train
for skills in demand)
Create
skills improvement strategy (see Train
for skills in demand)
Improve the skills-base in urban development by joint
working between professional institutions, education providers and
employers (see Train
for skills in demand)
Train professional staff and trainees by exposure to
best practice
Promote culture of
enterprise and innovation
Develop a network of regional resource centres for urban
development, promoting regional innovation and good practice,
co-ordinating urban development training, and encouraging community
involvement in the regeneration process
Establish local architecture centres in major cities,
fulfilling a mix of common objectives and local specialisms.
Hold a design competition for all significant area
regeneration projects and notable public buildings
Provide
Employment Opportunities for All
Tackle urban joblessness
Create
jobs that engaged in producing goods
Create jobs in sectors with long-term growth trends
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