UK: Urban regeneration

United Kingdom
26/11/1999
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Chaired by world-renowned architect Lord Rogers of Riverside, the Government’s Urban Task Force has made more than 100 recommendations for revising inner cities in the UK in the report, “Towards an Urban Renaissance”. The report concludes that the Government must initiate a series of practical measures for developing new partnerships to revise derelict land and to rekindle the popularity of the inner cities. The publication coincides with figures showing an increase in the net migration of people from the northern cities to the south, together with a growing need for housing, especially in the south east. Major proposals include: using previously-developed land and buildings first for new housing; committing at least 65% of transport public expenditure to walking, cycling and public transport over the next ten years; introducing Home Zones giving local people more control over traffic movement through their neighbourhoods; giving local authorities new powers to manage the urban environment; introducing tax measures to provide incentives for developers, investors, small landlords and tenants to contribute to the regeneration of urban land and buildings and establishing a Renaissance Fund for use by community groups and voluntary organisations to deal with derelict buildings in urban areas. Comments on the Report were invited until the end of September, these, together with the findings of the report will be considered for the Government’s forthcoming Urban White Paper.
(DETR, July 1999)

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