Wythenshawe End of Scheme Evaluation and Strategic Regeneration Framework (SRF): Manchester City Council
The Brief: To evaluate the recently ended 7 year regeneration programme and the development of a new SRF. The plan covers the next 20 years and tackles major issues including how to encourage true partnership between stakeholders.
In spite of being next to Manchester Airport and some of the most prosperous parts of the North West, Wythenshawe is a community of 60,000 people with significant economic and social problems, possessing until recently the most deprived ward in England based on the IMD rankings.
Our work comprised two strands: evaluating the Partnership’s recently completed 7 year regeneration programme and developing, as part of a team of consultants, a comprehensive new vision and framework covering all aspects of life in Wythenshawe for the next 20 years – access to jobs, business growth, learning, transport, housing, children’s and families services, environment and neighbourhood conditions, culture and leisure, crime and community safety. In developing the SRF, we have grappled with a number of key issues which will influence the long term success of the plan, and others like it across England, including how best to tackle multi-faceted economic, social and physical problems; how to address the mismatch between funding aspirations and available resources; and how to make the leap from joint working to true partnership between stakeholders.
Sheffield