Lauren Amery
Gavin Wray
martin sullivan
Oliver Nicholls
A new report published by Communities and Local Government, A New Deal for Communities Experience: A final assessment (pdf, 779kb), highlights how government investment has had a positive impact on the six New Deal for Communities (NDC) areas in the West Midlands.
The £2 billion flagship regeneration programme between 2001 and 2008 helped:
- Reduce the proportion of working age residents in Walsall NDC area with no qualifications by 17 percentage points
- Raised the satisfaction with housing to 91% in 2008
- Reduced the proportion of residents in the Aston NDC area feeling unsafe in the dark from 20% to 17% in 2008
- 81% of residents in Kings Norton NDC area feel they had good access to a doctor in 2008
- 69% of residents in the Sandwell NDC area felt the NDC had improved their area
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