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Coastal Regeneration Handbook launch
Which way now for coastal regeneration? Despite 15 years' of national economic growth (pre-crunch!), coastal resorts do not appear to have benefitted: deprivation remains stubbornly high. What options, therefore, are available for regenerating our coastal communities in a world of reduced public and individual spending?
The 'Coastal Regeneration Handbook' argues that a more realistic and productive coastal regeneration objective could be ‘wellbeing’ and local distinctiveness, rather than the universally sought but elusive ‘economic growth’?
The IDeA, through its Economic Development and Healthy Community’s programmes, supported the Coastal Communities Alliance (CCA) in producing the first 'Coastal Regeneration Handbook'. The handbook was launched in Margate on 28 January 2010 by Dr Phyllis Starkey MP, who chaired the Select Committee Inquiry into Coastal Towns.
Why a coastal handbook?
The primary objective of the 'Coastal Regeneration Handbook' is to help reduce deprivation and improve the quality of life in coastal resorts by increasing the effectiveness of coastal regeneration. The handbook, which has been produced on a shoestring of 'coastal goodwill':
- clarifies ‘who's who’ and ‘who's doing what’ in coastal regeneration
- seeks to improving the knowledge and effectiveness of coastal practitioners; stimulating new debates on addressing coastal wellbeing and enterprise
- establishes coastal groups on leadership, enterprise, health, planning, worklessness, housing, coastal public costs and demographics to determine what is working, why and where!
The handbook is very much ‘work in progress’ and will be updated and developed on the related CCA website and by the findings of the virtual coastal groupings.
The Coastal Communities Alliance (CCA)
The CCA is a virtual network of local authorities and coastal organisations who seek to promote best practice in coastal regeneration and to inform policy by providing local evidence and local solutions for coastal resort issues.
Contact:
email: Nicola.precious@Lincolnshire.gov.uk or
telephone: 07500 992115.
Page updated February 2010.
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