But there has been at least 10 years of experience of similar programmes (or perhaps 20 years, from City Challenge to SRB andObjective One programmes.) What we aim to show in our film is that the partnership model of housing renewal does not allow for full community involvement, despite the rhetoric of participation adopted by this and previous governments.
The overall objective was to produce concrete outcomes in plenary sessions, workshops and cross-sectoral dialogue formats with the aim of arriving at decisions that have the potential to make a genuine difference in terms of sustainable impacts.