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Want genuine community-led regeneration? Learn from what HMR tells us

It’s vital we learn from programmes like housing market renewal if we’re serious about putting communities at the heart of regeneration, says Jennifer Strutt

A billboard advertises new homes in the Walker district of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, one of the city’s HMR areas, back in 2007.

With housing market renewal (HMR) wound up – apart from transitional funding to support those areas left most in limbo – what is the future of regeneration? Whatever is next, communities need to be at the heart of the process.

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Building ideas

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The One Rhyl Project: rebuilding trust in deprived communities

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The added power of green investment

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Turning ‘bad jobs’ into ‘good jobs’

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The transformative power of planning

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Linking up the ‘five pillars’ can deliver equality

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Responsible Reform: The findings

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Bringing local start ups to the high street

The Made in Stirling shop in Stirling city centre

Using empty shops as the platform for local entrepreneurs to test their ideas, Start Up Street Stirling is re-invigorating its town centre from within, as Diarmaid Lawlor reports

Finally, the sign went up. It was real. ‘Made in Stirling’, the first shop delivered as a collaboration between Start Up Street and the Stirling Creative Industries Forum, was ready.