Government’s regeneration framework

The government has reaffirmed its commitment to regeneration by announcing a new framework that will focus on ‘people as well as places’, and be driven by local needs and opportunities. In her speech yesterday to the British Urban Regeneration Association, Hazel Blears announced the aim of regeneration was to reverse economic, social and physical decline where market forces will not do this without support from the government. Regeneration must be focused on improving economic outcomes and tackling worklessness, she added.