ballymun regeneration

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Regeneration case Study Ballymun Estate
Introduction
This essay will give brief history of urban regeneration in Ireland, it will identify the key stakeholders (participant) that involved in the regeneration process, and this essay will describe the engagement of the community. It will also explain the structure of the regeneration process, and the background of social problems; it will go further to brief the role of the community worker.
History of urban regeneration in Ireland
‘Ireland socio economic history in the twentieth century saw it successively change the basis of its mode of development within a relatively short space of time’ (Bissett 2008, p11). In the early twentieth by being a pre-industrial society, in brief period of industrialisation that Ireland went through, but now some as considered to be pre-industrial society. Urban regeneration in Ireland has now taken place by change the situation of the developing economy and to modernise Irish society.
‘In 1960s ‘Myles Wright’ planning strategy of new towns on the edge of the city to accommodate increasing population in the future, i.e. Tallaght, Clondalkin/Lucan Blanchardstown and Ballymun’ (Bissett 2008, p. 12). During that time Dublin city centre was abandoned and almost undeveloped, within 1969-70 the last social housing flat complex that built in the city was St. Michael’s Estate. Inside the 1986 Urban Renewal and finance Acts provided structure to developed new model of regeneration. In the city particular area were chosen for renewal and developers, it were going to continue to encourage completing by providing the important of tax inducement for development. Department of Finance and Department of the Environment were the two states that coordinated the chang...

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... for community replacements to drug-taking that is the reason of the project. Originally, the Project struggled to see to the needs of the youth population; the youth families and friends, the specific needs of drug-taking youth, and the need for preventative community education in relation to drug use.
The role of community worker
‘By comparison with national standards, education standards are low in Ballymun. A survey in 2004 found that only 26% of pupils in Ballymun passed the Leaving Certificate compared with 74% nationally’
‘Ballymun Partnership Education Working Group currently has twenty four members representing a variety of education stakeholder organisations and groups from voluntary, community and statutory sectors’ (Ballymun Whitehall Area Partnership 2014). In the area of education Ballymun Whitehall Area Partnership are the organisation that promoting

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