Salford City Council Scrutiny Commission – Regeneration in Salford
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Further action planned
LSP Marketing  Identified as Cabinet and
1. The City Council to do
 Development of shared
and Comms
further work to promote
LSP overarching priority
vision will underpin review
Gp /
the ‘vision for Salford’,
of Community Plan due to

URC
developing
Vision
Central Salford
and in doing so work with URC
be produced in Autumn
and Framework for Central
local communities to
2005
Salford
ensure they feel they own
 Strategy for Salford
 LSP appointed Marketing
and understand the
West will be developed
and Communications Officer
solutions being
during 2005/6
developed.
 Further examination of
what can be delegated to
communities to be
undertaken
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Comments
Extensive efforts are
put into consulting
with the local
community. There is a
balance to strike
between consulting
and delivering, which
residents are also
keen to see
Community capacity
building will be a
constant feature of the
continuous
regeneration of the
City
More effort should be
made to include BME
communities
Salford City Council Scrutiny Commission – Regeneration in Salford
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2. The City Council and its
SCC
 Regeneration Initiatives
 Revised Community
partners to ensure that
Strategic
Cabinet Working Group
Plan will provide
future programmes
Directors/
and Officer Group
strategic framework
combine positive
Cabinet/
established to ensure
alongside Central
physical, economic, social LSP
coherent strategic
Salford Vision and
and environmental
framework and holistic
Framework and strategy
aspects of regeneration
approach
for Salford West
for a sustainable
 Community Plan Cabinet
 Strategy for Salford
community.
Working Group
West will be developed
established to lead
during 2005/6
Community Plan review
 Plans to base Cultural
process
Partnership Manager in
 Officer Group established
Chief Execs.
to develop corporate
Regeneration and
strategy for older people
Improvement Division
 LSP Good Practice
 Review of LSP
Project provides training
processes, particularly
and assists older people
relating to Social
to become involved and
Inclusion structures and
have their voice heard
Living Environment
Forum planned, aimed
 Importance of river, open
to improve approach to
spaces and city
cross-cutting + interenvironment recognised
related issues
and opportunities to
exploit will be articulated
 GONW planned
in URC Vision and
intervention to support
Framework for Central
improved LSP
Salford
performance will review
and recommend in
 New investment in
relation to all aspects of
highway maintenance
Neighbourhood renewal
delivered via Urban Vision
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Comments
Central Government
are prescriptive in
many instances about
what monies can be
spent on
Clear lessons have
been
learnt
by
partners about the
need for a holistic
approach
to
regeneration
Salford City Council Scrutiny Commission – Regeneration in Salford
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3. The City Council should
Lead
 NRF resources targeted at  Building Schools for the
prioritise improving
Member
improving attainment in
Future will direct central
attainment and capacity
/Strategic
underachieving secondary
government funding to
levels, especially in
Director
schools
rebuild or refurbish all of
secondary sector
Education
the City’s secondary
 Planning and land use
education in the inner city
schools in the next 10
powers used proactively to
areas.
years.
secure new education
facilities
 Work with Salford
University and the Centre
 A secondary School
for Educational Leadership
Improvement Team has
to develop leadership and
been established, which
management skills
priorities work with schools
amongst senior staff in
in Ofsted categories and
schools.
where pupils are
underachieving.
4. The City Council and its
SCC
 Chief Executives
 Developer agreements

partners should establish Strategic
established Time Expiry
to be negotiated to include
corporate exit strategies
Directors/
group to co-ordinate
amounts to cover future
for all regeneration
Cabinet/
succession arrangements
maintenance
initiatives in Salford, with
LSP/
for time expired activity
 Evaluation of NRF
a continued allocation of
Regeneratio
across City
programme commenced
resources to the area.
n Boards
 Seedley and Langworthy
to support strategic

and NDC Boards developing
approach to future NRF
strategies
 LSP Team and Good
Practice Project to review
succession strategy and
development of
community involvement
structures in light of Local
Area Agreements and
Safer Stronger
Communities Fund
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Comments
Not all activity can be
rolled forward but
increasingly the focus
will be on prioritisation
via mainstream
budgets
Neighbourhood
Management will also
provide the focus for
re-orientation of local
service patterns to
embed successful
regeneration activity
Salford City Council Scrutiny Commission – Regeneration in Salford
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5. The City Council is
SCC Chief
 Memorandum of
 Leaders will sit on each
encouraged to continue
Exec.
Understanding between 2
others URC Boards
developing their
/Leader
City Councils developed –
relationship with
Central
includes regular Leaders
Manchester, following the Salford URC
and Chief Execs. meetings
example of Gateshead
 Joint work eg on Irwell
and Newcastle.
Corridor studies, HMR,
ERDF and Knowledge
Capital underway
 URC in regular contact
with MCC
 Lead Members for
Planning from 2 Cities meet
regularly
 Development of the new
6. To increase cross
SCC Chief
 SCC Strategic
corporate PMF will encourage
Directorate partnership
Exec./
Governance review
directorates to consider cross
working, and for
Strategic
undertaken
cutting issues such as
regeneration to be a key
Directors
 Regeneration Initiatives
regeneration more fully.
topic to be included in all
Cabinet Working Group and
future decisions and
Officer Group established to
strategies, thus providing
ensure coherent strategic
a collective approach to
framework and holistic
regeneration.
approach
 Measures/indicators to be
7. The City Council should
SCC Chief
 LSP Performance
reviewed to provide better
implement local
Exec./
Management Framework
picture of how regeneration
performance measures to Strategic
developed
progressing Community
identify how successful
Directors
 Range of performance
Involvement performance
the City Council and
indicators to be developed
measures in place eg jobs
through Safer Stronger
partners are in
created, population change,
Communities Fund
regeneration.
average house prices and
reported quarterly to
Cabinet WG/ LSP/
Regeneration Boards
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Comments
 The
relationship
between
the 2 Cities is good and is
developing but there will
always be an element of
competition
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Comments
8. Members of the
Lead
 Developer preference for
 HMR programme is
 SCC cannot
Regeneration
Members
apartments as opposed to
developing
commission house
Commission ask the City
Housing and
family housing being
new tools eg shared
building directly but
Council to be more
Planning/
addressed through the
equity to promote
will do all possible to
forceful in ensuring
Strategic
preparation of a
affordable housing across
shape /bend
developers provide a
Director
development document
tenures
developer /market
mixture of family
Housing and
under new planning system,
inclinations and
accommodation and
Planning
negotiation of developer
promote affordable
affordable housing, as
agreements and the
housing whilst not
well as one bedroom
Housing Restraint policy
depressing the price
apartments.
of housing locally
 Proactive use of Council’s
land assets to encourage
family and affordable
housing
9. Engagement with local
LSP
 Extensive effort put into
 More work needed to
 See comment under
communities is
Marketing
consultation with residents
develop Community Action
recommendation one
imperative; therefore the
and Comms
and new methods
Plans and link to
City Council need to be
Gp/ SCC
developed eg in Lower
Neighbourhood
more transparent and
Chief Exec./
Broughton/Ordsall and via
Management and
communicative when
Strategic
Neighbourhood
regeneration
consulting with local
Directors
Management
 LSP Good Practice
communities with regards
Project to provide advice
 LSP Good Practice
funding, processes,
Project developed Gold
and guidance to develop
decisions and timescales,
Standards IN Community
URC community
and as a result
Consultation adopted by all
engagement programme
contributing to building
LSP Partners and URC
the capacity of local
people.
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Salford City Council Scrutiny Commission – Regeneration in Salford
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10. There must be open
Regeneratio  LSP Good Practice
acknowledgement
n Boards
Project developed Gold
throughout regeneration
Standards IN Community
processes that
Involvement adopted by
community involvement is
all LSP Partners and URC
not only crucial, but also
hard work for the
community
representatives involved,
to help ensure that
communities do not feel
used or sidelined but are
an intrinsic part of
regeneration.
11. The City Council and
LSP
 Most secondary schools
 A key focus of the
partners to ensure that
Cabinet
and many primaries have
development of a new
young people are
SCC
school councils.
Children’s Services
included in the processes, Strategic
Directorate is ensuring
 There are young people
as they are the future of
Directors
that young people are
on the Connexions
the City.
involved at all levels eg
Strategic Partnership
young people will be
 Good practice in youth
appointed to the new
engagement has been
Children and Young
developed via NRF funded
People Partnership
projects in Ordsall,
board, the strategic body
Seedley/Langworthy and
with oversight of
NDC
Children’s Services
 Lead Member for Youth
will engage with other
Lead Members to
promote a joined up
approach to youth
issues
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Salford City Council Scrutiny Commission – Regeneration in Salford
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12. The City Council and its
SCC Chief
 Central Salford URC
 Dissemination of best
partners should create
Exec/
emphasis on learning from
practice and lessons learnt
opportunities to learn and Strategic
existing URCs. Founder
to be built into SRB5
promote local and
Directors/
Member EP has role
Evaluation process
national best practice.
Central
nationally re this
Developing clear lines of
Salford URC  HMR Pathfinder involved
communication between
in range of Working Groups
all parties involved in
that are developing new
regeneration.
housing products and
new/best practice
13. That regeneration
SCC
 Neighbourhood
 Strategy for Salford
initiatives are coRegeneratio
Management model being
West will be developed
ordinated throughout the
n CWG/OG
rolled out and linked to area
during 2005/6
process at all levels with
Central
priorities
each other and with
Salford URC  URC established and
mainstream services, to
developing Vision and
prevent the “doughnut”
Framework for Central
effect at the edges of
Salford
regeneration initiatives.
 Regeneration Initiatives
Cabinet Working Group and
Officer Group established to
ensure coherent strategic
framework and holistic
approach
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Comments
Recommendation
14. The Commission
welcomes the Master
planning process, but
urge the City Council to
consider ways of
speeding up the planning
process, ensuring we
proactively engage with
the private sector.
Salford City Council Scrutiny Commission – Regeneration in Salford
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 Protocol to govern treatment of
Lead
 LSP Good Practice
planning and land issues under
Members
Project Gold Standards IN
development by URC and SCC
Housing and
Community Involvement
 LSP Good Practice Project
Planning/
and Community
providing advice and guidance to
Strategic
Consultation to be
the Pendleton Master Planning
Process on best practice in
Director
included in planning
engaging
with
the
community
and
Housing and
processes
private sector consultants
Planning
 Officers try to strike balance
Central
between consultation with
Salford URC
residents and following statutory


timetables set eg for planning and
CPO
15. The City Council and
partners should employ
regeneration staff on
permanent contracts;
offering training
opportunities that forms
part of an appraisal
system.
Lead
 Some Directorates eg
Member/Stra
Chief Executives and
tegic
Housing and Planning
Director
second staff into
Customer
regeneration projects to
and Support
provide continuity of
Services/
employment
Head of
Personnel
16. The Urban Regeneration
Company have to be
explicit on how they
intend to involve local
communities, this should
include a community
representative on the
board.
Central
Salford URC
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
Short term and long term
community engagement
strategies being developed
by URC in conjunction with
University of Salford and
LSP Good Practice project
 Regular e-updates
initiated by URC
Comments
Need to be clear that
some processes are
statutory/legal and
cannot be shortcircuited. Nonstatutory processes
are easier to speed
up.
Building consensus
between community
and developers can
also take time

Review arrangements
for determining permanent
or temporary nature of
employment contracts
where based on time
limited funding and to
consider arrangements for
redeploying temporary
staff at end of their
contracts
 LSP Good Practice
Project to provide advice
and guidance to develop
URC community
engagement programme

SCC is only allowed
by ODPM one seat on
the URC Board and is
represented by an
elected Member, the
Leader
Recommendation
17. The City Council and
Salford University should
consider how they intend
to retain students from
Salford University in the
local economy.
18. Members of the
Regeneration
Commission encourage
the City Council and
Greater Manchester
Police Authority to
celebrate and highlight
achievements in reducing
crime; therefore helping
to alter the publics’
perception that crime in
Salford is increasing.
Salford City Council Scrutiny Commission – Regeneration in Salford
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University of  HMR and Knowledge
Salford/
Capital addressing this
LSP ED
issue
Forum
Lead

Member
Community
Safety/Head
of
Community
Safety
LSP Crime
and Disorder
Partnership
Community Safety

Strategy 2005/08 (from
1/4/050 includes an
Objective ‘Helping all our
communities feel safer’
and a Target – ‘Increase
feelings of safety and
confidence in communities
by a target to be identified 
by September 2005.
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Work to establish
baseline of perceptions
of safety and confidence
through the Salford
Citizens Panel /
Communications
strategy under
development.
Communications
Strategy will include
working jointly with
partners (including the
police) to maximise
positive publicity and
promotion opportunities
to build safer, stronger,
confident communities.
Outcomes against the
baseline will be
measured by follow up
survey work.
Comments
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Further action planned
19. Greater Manchester
GMPTE
 SCC Economic

Accessible bus and
Passenger Transport
Development Strategy
rail services particularly
Executive (GMPTE) is
includes private sector
along the A6 Corridor
asked to form closer links
funding Metro Shuttle
into the regional centre
with the private sector
are a key priority within
 SCC liasing with GMPTE
with regards to providing
the emerging Central
about the provision of
employment-based
Salford Vision and
employment based
transport.
Regeneration
transport, within the
Framework
financial limits that the
PTE can afford
20. The City Council and its
Central
 Protocol to define and
 LSP Good Practice
partners are asked by
Salford
govern relationships with
Project to provide advice
local communities to
URC/Regen
Regeneration Boards under
and guidance to develop
clarify responsibilities and eration
development by URC
URC community
relationships between
Boards/ LSP  LSP represented on URC
engagement programme
various bodies i.e.
Board
Partners in Salford &
Urban Regeneration
Company.
21. The Partnership should
Lead
 Links between
be involved in ensuring
Members
regeneration and
developers and
Housing and
Neighbourhood
regeneration
Planning/
Management to be
professionals are
Strategic
strengthened
accountable to the
Director
 LSP Good Practice
existing community for
Housing and
Project Gold Standards
the work and
Planning/
IN Community
developments they
Central
Involvement and
deliver.
Salford URC
Community Consultation
to be included in
planning processes
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Comments

See earlier comments