Recommendations to improve community cohesion, performance evaluation and the balance of development from city centre to suburban areas are just some of a raft of measures designed to improve the Government’s flagship housing market renewal scheme that have been mothballed in Whitehall for two years, writes Tamar Wilner, Regeneration & Renewal,
2 November 2009.
The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) last month published seven reports stemming from the national evaluation programme of the Housing Market Renewal pathfinder scheme. According to the DCLG, the purpose of the research, which began in 2005, ‘was to assess the extent to which the programme was meeting its national objectives and establish the wider impact of the programme, as well as drawing out early lessons and good practice in order to contribute to the development of the (pathfinder) programme’. But researchers told Regeneration & Renewal that six of the seven reports now published had been with the DCLG since 2007.
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