Newcastle City Council is delivering a 'fair' neighbourhood regeneration service that has uncertain prospects for improvement.
The Council has been involved for many years in regeneration schemes across the City with varying degrees of success. The City has a deep-seated legacy of worklessness, deprivation and depopulation in some areas. In Elswick, progress has been made against all indicators of regeneration – the only New Deal area where this is so. This progress is recognised by the community.
In Walker the planning framework has been put in place for regeneration, the community has been effectively involved, but only limited numbers of new houses have been built.
In Scotswood, a great deal of demolition and land assembly has been achieved and local people have been re-housed effectively but no new houses have been built, although a new school, Excelsior Academy, opened in September 2008.