Competition-led initiatives

• Competition-led (1991-1997)

  • Included partnerships between local and national governments and the private sector
  • Unlike UDCs, all partners were consulted fully, including residents
  • Included a bidding process
  • Examples include: City Challenge Partnerships (CCP)
• Aims:

  • Expand housing choices
  • Strengthen the economic base
  • Enhance the quality of the physical environment
  • Improve access to employment opportunities for local residents
• Bidding process

  1. Local authority decides which area needs regeneration
  2. Local authority involves local community groups and leaders
  3. Local authority seek private sector partnership (investment)
  4. Local authority, community groups, and private companies decide on an imaginative project
  5. Together all partners formulate a written 5 year plan
  6. Plan is submitted to central government (Downing Street)
  7. Government decides on which proposals to fund
  8. Most successful bids combine social, economic and environmental outcomes.