The government's plan to sell off or lease 258, 000 hectares of England's public forests, managed by the Forestry Commission, was intended to give the private sector, community and charitable groups greater involvement in woodlands by encouraging a "mixed model" of ownership.
But there has been at least 10 years of experience of similar programmes (or perhaps 20 years, from City Challenge to SRB and Objective One programmes.) What we aim to show in our film is that the partnership model of housing renewal does not allow for full communityinvolvement, despite the rhetoric of participation adopted by this and previous governments.