Police in Liverpool have claimed that the introduction of a neighbourhood agreement in 2008 has made a “genuine” difference to the Westminster estate in the north of the city. Since the agreement residents have taken ownership of anti-social behaviour which has resulted in fewer crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour. Read more
Inner-city areas in England face decline without government support
Chairman of Urban Splash Tom Bloxham, a pioneer in the urban renaissance of Manchester and Liverpool in the 1990s, has suggested that inner-city areas in England face decline without government support and civic vision. Speaking on the Regional Growth
Fund to the BBC, Bloxham argued that the government’s ambition for “locally-driven growth” will not materialise if there is no acknowledgement of increasingly “poor and depressed” ‘doughnut’ areas around the city centers. Read more
