Good regeneration is also created from a long term vision with a plan that takes into account functions of local neighbourhoods and integrates them with wider economic strategies. A regeneration strategy to succeed should be able to link worklessness and training opportunities to deliver sustainable employment to local residents, as well as physical regeneration of the environment.
It is useful to consider Ferguslie Park, a small housing estate in Paisley built as a series of projects between 1926 and 1966, that reached at its peak 3,500 dwellings with a population of 13,500. By the end of the 1960s, Ferguslie Park’s fortunes went into reverse. This was mirrored by a matched decline of the areas mains employers such as textiles, ship building and car manufacturers. Ferguslie Park was also socially isolated, a factor reinforced in public housing allocation policies which had the result of concentrating the poorest families within the local community. By 1988, local population had decreased to 5,600, 39% of households composed of single parents and unemployment exceeded 30%. (Scotland.gov.uk 1998)
Previous attempts at regeneration in Ferguslie Park had tried but never succeeded. In 1988, Ferguslie Park was included in the launch of the New Life for Urban Scotland programme. A 10 year strategy was established for regeneration developed in collaboration with local residents that set out a plan for how the community would improve in physical, social and economic terms. Since the 1930s Tenants Associations had been active in the area showing the local community were keen to be involved in changes to their local area. Since then the Ferguslie Park Community Forum had commenced in 1993, which consisted of an 18 person Executive Committ...
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...ted before, research in 2012 still shows that although money was spent within Ferguslie Park, it is still classed as one of the most deprived areas in Scotland but the question is, what would of happened of Regeneration hadn’t taken place?.
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Fraser, D. (2003) 3rd Ed. The Evolution of the British Welfare State. Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. Stitt, S. (1994) Poverty and Poor Relief: Concepts and Reality.
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