Devolution: New Energy for the State; Real Power to the People »

Successive governments have known that most inner and outer ring urban areas have struggled for many decades and are in need of civil renewal. For 50 years, renewal initiative after initiative has been launched – Urban Aid, ICP, SRB, NDC, NRF, WNF. They have cost billions of pounds. But, there are as many excluded neighbourhoods as there were before all these costly remedial initiatives started. How can this be?