UKR is about delivery: demonstrating how to transform places with purpose built private rented homes with a mix of other uses. We are in discussion with local authorities across the country. We welcome conversations about possible projects. There are very clear criteria in our “Framer”. This has 9 simple criteria covering: the right site; the right approach; the right way forward. Download our one page document “Framing the right collaboration” and contact us on projects@ukregeneration.org.uk
Measuring ‘Happiness’
The launch today of the National Wellbeing Project led by the National Statistician (I didn’t realise there was one!) is likely to cause excitement and derision in equal measure. At a cost of £2 million, it aims to develop a model that provides understandable measures of national wellbeing and there will be a major consultation [...]
Underestimating the Determination of a Quiet Man?
Iain Duncan Smith warned us as Leader of the Conservative Party in 2002 not to ‘underestimate the determination of a quiet man’. Last week he was true to his word as he launched the Coalition Government’s welfare reforms. Or was he? Hailed as the most radical changes in welfare benefits since the second world war, [...]
Enterprise Review
It’s welcome news today that Lord Young, the former Trade and Industry Secretary of State, has been appointed by the Prime Minister to lead a review of enterprise in the UK looking at how red tape for SMEs can be cut and how business start-ups can be encouraged. It has been trailed that this will [...]