Regeneration Measuring Success of Rural Regeneration By the

Regeneration – Measuring Success of Rural Regeneration By the end of this lesson you will have: • Re-capped measures of success in urban places • Studied the success of regeneration strategies used in rural places • Used the Egan wheel to consider different stakeholder’s views of success

Regeneration - Enquiry Question 4 • Assessing the success of regeneration 4. A 12 Different rural stakeholders have different criteria for judging the success of rural regeneration A) A study of the strategies used in restructuring of a rural place (North Antrim coast) and the contested nature of these decisions within the local community B) The changes that have taken place as a consequence of national and local strategies can be judged using a range of economic, social, demographic and environmental variables in a rural areas C) Different stakeholders (local and national governments, local business and residents) will assess success using contrasting criteria; their views will depend on the meaning and lived experiences of a rural place and the impact of change on both the reality and the image of that place

Re-Cap: Speak it out • Use your phones to time how long your partner can talk about the following bullet points • Who can speak for the longest from memory? • Success of Salford quays regeneration • Different measures of regeneration success • Conflict matrix

Success of Rural Regeneration • When developing rural regeneration plans, the Egan wheel is a useful way in which success can be measured (can be used for rural or urban success measurement)

Rural Regeneration – Grizedale forest • Use the table on page 18. 5 to see how you will measure the success of Grizedale forest rural regeneration • Talk through the table with your partner to see how you could apply the Egan wheel to grizedale • Extension: Which other rural regeneration projects in your locality could you apply the egan wheel to?

Rural Regeneration Projects • Successful: Eden project • Mixed Stakeholder Agendas: North Antrim Coast • Unsuccessful: Earth Centre in Doncaster • TASK: Each pair should take a different case study to read about and feedback to the class

Rural Stakeholder Views • As with urban areas, rural areas have different stakeholders with different views fro regeneration • Players in rural areas tend to be: landowners, farmers, government’s defra • Successful regeneration can have different aspects: better leisure, better retail, more jobs, more visitors, higher biodiversity

Rural Stakeholder Views • Rural-Urban fringes tend to be the most hotly contested rural regeneration areas because of the green belt • Use figure 18. 7 on page 270 to explore the contested nature of building on rural – urban fringes

Exam Practice • ‘Explain why there are variations in people’s perceptions of the success of regeneration in a rural place; both real and imagined’