Item UOW/11/CFSD/4 - Prioritising local environmental concerns – Where there’s a will there’s a way

Prioritising local environmental concerns – Where there’s a will there’s a way, Karen Lucas, Sara Fuller, Anthony Psaila and Diana Thrush (London: CfSD, University of Westminster/Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2004).

Local Strategic Partnerships (LSPs) have been identified as the overarching co-ordinating framework for neighbourhood renewal, with the duty of bringing together local authorities, service providers and the full range of voluntary and community groups. This thirteen month project, funded under Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s Reconciling Environmental and Social concerns research programme aims to examine the extent to which LSPs recognise the environmental concerns and priorities of the different (and in particular disadvantaged) local neighbourhoods they represent and to develop recommendations for ensuring that local neighbourhood priorities are taken account of within such structures.