Creating Sustainable Communities: Tackling problems of persistent deprivation in a UK neighbourhood. From the Conference of the Journal of Neighbourhood Renewal November 19 2009. Presented by Nigel Berkeley and David Jarvis

1. Creating Sustainable Communities: Tackling problems of persistent deprivation in a UK neighbourhood Conference of the Journal of Neighbourhood Renewal 19th November 2009 Nigel Berkeley and David Jarvis

3. Understanding persistent deprivation: a three-fold typology

7. Transport and Connectivity – Are conditions enabling good access to opportunities and services? This also encompasses ICT.

8. Services – Are services appropriate to local needs? Are they responsive to meeting needs? Are they inclusive?

10. Economy – Is the local economy providing opportunities or is it in decline? Is it attempting to become more resilient?

11. Housing and the Built Environment – Is the local infrastructure well-maintained, invested in, and of high quality?

13. This may reflect distrust of statutory authority intervention based upon ‘broken promises’ and a sense that Canley is ‘overlooked’

15. suffers from poor transport links to key employment sites

16. Car ownership levels within Canley are low with greater dependent upon a reliable and efficient public transport service.

17. High levels of dissatisfaction with the frequency and punctuality of bus services

19. Evidence suggests that satisfaction with shopping facilities is relatively low indicating the need to improve the quality and variety of existing provision.

20. Respondents looking for ‘better variety of shops’ and more shops generally in the area

22. Driven partly by concerns over: levels of crime, cleanliness of streets, conditions of roads and pavements, and anti-social behaviour

24. Means that Canley has largely missed out on mainstream government regeneration funding

25. Lack of public investment over many years relative to other disadvantaged neighbourhoods in the city

27. Fewer than 50% of Canley residents are economically active. Those in paid work are in lower skilled, lower paid jobs

28. Economic inactivity, and resultant benefit dependency, is reflected in a significant proportion of working age households without an earned income

30. Has led to development of distinct, isolated communities that do not interact to any significant degree

31. Concerns about housing quality relate to outstanding repairs and accommodation that is too small

33. The neighbourhood demonstrates low levels of engagement in cultural and leisure activities

34. In part a reflection of poor connectivity to social and cultural services located in the city centre

36. Distrusting and disengaged residents

38. For many years, largely overlooked by area-based regeneration/ renewal policy due to proximity to prosperous neighbourhoods in the same Ward

39. Qualified for Neighbourhood Renewal Funding (NRF) on basis of being designated a ‘priority neighbourhood’ in the city

42. Lack of trust of neighbours as well as authority

43. Fragmented geography

44. High levels of transience

45. Anti-social behaviour

47. Poor public transport links

48. Poor maintenance of roads, streets and pavements; and degraded physical environment

50. Priorities of residents

51. Evidence of need – informed by SURGE’s analysis of data presented here

52. Extensive (£13m) package of physical, economic and social benefits e.g. 700 new homes, a Community Hub, and improvements to local shops, public realm, green space and public transport links.

54. Backed by substantial resources from land sales (but carries risk especially in the current economic climate)

56. Case study of Canley (Coventry) highlighted:

57. extensive nature of neighbourhood level deprivation

58. the complex structural, physical, social, economic and political factors which underpin persistent deprivation

59. the difficulties of re-engaging communities

60. the evidence-based and community-led Regeneration Programme designed to renew Canley from within

61. the risk involved in terms of the Programmes financing