Can ‘Pride in Place’ be an enduring solution for community and neighbourhood renewal?

The overarching intention of the UK Government’s £5bn ‘Pride in Place’ (PIP) strategy and programme is to reverse decades of decline in deprived neighbourhoods by empowering local people—through Neighbourhood Boards and devolved funding—to decide how assets are revitalised, high streets are improved, and social cohesion is built.

In this Espresso Shot episode, we discuss whether the strategy is robust and devolved enough to overcome deep-seated, systemic socio-economic deprivation and/or deterioration in the public realm. The requirements on local and regional leadership teams if PIP is to be translated into hyper-local transformation will be considerable.

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