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REGENERATION

Neighbourhood watch

With the UK’s Shared Prosperity Fund expiring imminently, the launch of the Pride in Place programme has placed a renewed focus on neighbourhood regeneration – but the funding shift will not benefit everyone, as David Blackman explains.

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Neighbourhood regeneration hit the headlines earlier this month but not in the way that the Government intended.

Keir Starmer had gone to Hastings to announce that 40 new neighbourhoods will benefit from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government's (MHCLG) Pride in Place programme. But few in the press pack were listening as questions to the Prime Minister focused on the then latest fall out from the Lord Mandelson scandal.

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