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Neighbourhood initiatives in Wales and England: shifting purposes and changing scales

Pill, Madeleine Claire 2012. Neighbourhood initiatives in Wales and England: shifting purposes and changing scales. People, Place and Policy Online 6 (2) , pp. 76-89.

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Abstract

This article compares two government-led ‘flagship’ area-based initiatives (ABIs) targeting deprived neighbourhoods - the New Deal for Communities, launched in England in 1998, and the Communities First programme, launched in a post-devolutionary Wales in 2001. In England, a shift in the national paradigm from ‘big state’ interventions towards the ‘big society’ agenda has heralded the decline of the ABI approach. In Wales, the approach remains but has recently been re-launched. Shifts in the purpose of neighbourhood governance as encapsulated in these two ABIs are considered and contrasted, using Lowndes and Sullivan’s (2008) typology of rationales as a framework. The shift in the emphasis of both ABIs from holistic, place-bound strategies to broader, service-influencing efforts points to the up-scaling of neighbourhood governance, despite the renewed policy emphasis on localism.

Item Type: Article
Status: Published
Schools: Geography and Planning (GEOPL)
Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Uncontrolled Keywords: Neighbourhood governance; area-based initiatives; Wales; England
Publisher: Sheffield Hallam University
ISSN: 1753-8041
Last Modified: 07 Nov 2019 09:05
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/35805

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