Effectiveness of Government Regeneration Initiatives

Download or read book Effectiveness of Government Regeneration Initiatives written by Great Britain. Parliament House of Commons. ODPM: Housing, Planning, Local Government and the Regions Committee and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first half of the twentieth century urban improvements were mainly carried out by local authorities. Now it is mostly Government agencies who provide services and fund regeneration schemes via a host of initiatives. However there is evidence that this is not effective. The Committee is concerned that the single-issue initiatives skew local bids to meet short-term criteria rather than match real local needs. In addition the geographical boundaries of some initiatives can lead to uneven distribution and be divisive. The Committee therefore recommends that no more centrally driven national initiatives should be launched, instead local authorities should develop their own regeneration plans.. It is thought that such an arrangement would reduce the amount of underspend in the current system and also waste less administrative time.