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Developing a Community Regeneration Strategy for Wrexham

Developing a Community Regeneration Strategy for Wrexham. Presentation and workshop for the Environment and Regeneration Scrutiny Committee Gary Brown, Community Development Manager, Economic Development Department, 25 July 2007. Contents. Historical developments in Wrexham

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Developing a Community Regeneration Strategy for Wrexham

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  1. Developing aCommunity RegenerationStrategyfor Wrexham Presentation and workshop for the Environment and Regeneration Scrutiny Committee Gary Brown, Community Development Manager, Economic Development Department, 25 July 2007.

  2. Contents • Historical developments in Wrexham • Current context – national and local strategies • Desired outcomes for community regeneration • Proposed processes to devise the Strategy • Discussion points – establishing principles

  3. 1. Historical developments • 10 years of area-specific developments: • Caia Park – the Caia Park Strategy (1996) • Cefn Mawr – Strategic Development (1996) • Southsea & Brynteg – People in Communities(1998) • West Wrexham URBAN II (2000) • Communities First (2001) • Leader+ and Rural Community Action (2001)

  4. 2. Current context • National strategies: • Making the Connections, Beyond Boundaries, & the LSBs • Communities First (and its use of the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2005) • Wales: A Vibrant Economy • National Strategic Framework for Community Development • Local strategies: • Community Strategy & Core Corporate Business = Regenerated Communities • Thematic strategies tackling inequalities (eg Adult and Community Learning, Health Social Care and Wellbeing, Older Persons Strategy, etc) • Economic Development Strategy and Service Plan 2007-10 (detailed overleaf…)

  5. Economic Development Strategy 2007-10: • Three-year rolling strategy, approved annually, firstly in 2004 • Aim – ‘To provide economic opportunities for local people thereby helping to improve their quality of life’ • Four mechanisms including ‘nurturing community regeneration’ • Four service objectives: Business, Learning, Physical Regeneration and Social Inclusion • Departmental roles: • Direct – developing a framework for community regeneration in Wrexham (Service Plan 2007-8) • utilising a community development approach to tackle social exclusion • Indirect – engaging partners to influence and target mainstream resources to tackle social exclusion

  6. 3. Desired outcomes • A strategic framework to underpin the aim of Regenerated Communities which details: • Definitions of ‘Community Regeneration’ and ‘Development’ • Clear links to other relevant strategies • A consistent method of measuring impact • A clear specification of direct and indirect interventions • A method of determining the targeting of interventions • An operational plan to deploy resources

  7. 4. Proposed processes • Four phase inclusive process: • Conceptualisation – scoping & establishing principles (July & Aug ’07) • Design – detailed work to draft the strategy (Sept to Nov ’07) • Consultation/Testing – gauging and resolving impact on current arrangements – Is it fir for purpose? (Dec ‘07 to Mar ’08) • Adoption/Implementation – introducing new ways of working? (April ’08 onwards)

  8. 5. Discussion points • Conceptualising the strategy by considering its dimensions: • Geographic vs thematic targeting • Anti-poverty vs participative democracy as the prime aim • Growth vs maintenance as the focus for effectiveness • Direct(ie CD workers) vs indirect(ie programme bending) interventions as the way of working

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