Regeneration Management

• How is regeneration managed?


  investment in infrastructure to improve areas accessibility
• Governments policy to regenerate an area


  Levelling up making poorer pre-industrial areas more developed
• What does levelling up an area do?


  -spread jobs

  -increase wealth

  -decrease travel times
• Impact of HS2 on the west


  Gives them £10 billion
• Arguments against HS2


  -recent review £100 billion

  -people are being forced to leave homes

  -government buying people's homes, leaves renters homeless

  -trees, wildlife areas destroyed

  -money could be used to improve existing transport
• Arguments for HS2


  -connectivity

  -money, businesses and infrastructure can move north

  -people would travel and spend in cities more often

  -creates jobs (cost benefit analysis)

  -cheaper houses along the route

  -long term reduces congestion

  -carbon neutral

  -planting 84,000 trees
• Deregulation


  making it easier to invest and bring money into and area
• How governments' decisions can influence

  1. Financial transactions and markets by making it easier for companies to set up and trade

  2. Supporting neoliberalism

  3. Making areas attractive for investment

  4. Dictating areas regeneration schemes

  5. Whether resource development and infrastructure can set up

  6. Labour market influences by migration

  7. How areas are sympathetic to business development
• 2004 EU enlargement POST ACCESSION

  A8- estonia, latvia, lithuania, poland, slovenia, czech republic, slovakia, hungary
• Science Parks 


  attracts talent and entrepreneurs to well equip areas.
• Benefits to science parks


  immediate access to world class facilitates, modern equipment + services, support and mentioning, networking, collaboration
• enterprise zone 2012


  provides tax breaks and has government support- great for new and expanding companies
• rebranding an area


  attempts to represent areas as being more attractive for potential investors and visitors, locals, by changing public perception
• importance of rebranding for UK industrialized cities


  show the attraction of places, creating a specific place identity, industrial heritage
• strategies to regenerate


  themed events- Olympics, Stratford

  tourism- Portsmouth

  tech lead enterprise- science parks

  improved buildings- Liverpool

  infrastructure- HS2

  sustainable communities- Giwenitch

  history interest
• Top-down and Bottom-up Strategies

  top-down: government, big money for big projects

  bottom-down: smaller community groups doing smaller projects
• flagship project/ development 


  large scale, high profile and high investment projects, on brownfield sites, such as major new museums, art galleries, theaters or sports facilities
• re-imaging


  positively changing the standing and reputation of a place through specific improvements e.g improving cultural identity or sporting excellence