Renew visits Scarborough: Housing at the Heart of Coastal Regeneration

Joined by our Chair, Lord Best, #Renew visited Scarborough, a regeneration priority for the North Yorkshire Council, designated the country’s first coastal Mayoral Development Zone by the York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority, and…

Liverpool Renew tour showcases ambitious regeneration but viability challenges must be overcome to go further

The Liverpool City Region Renew tour showcased how housing associations, councils, the combined authority and other partners are doing all they can to improve the area. However, there are significant barriers, particularly around viability of…

Renew Tour of Sheffield: Revitalising places with community at the heart

"I want kids from this estate to look across the city and see a real, achievable future before them, a future that with investment in their roots, can give them hope to grow.”   Lara Joyce, Secretary, Gleadless Valley Tenants and Residents…

Regeneration in Middlesbrough – progress and opportunities but challenges remain 

Renew visited Middlesborough to see one of the UK’s largest urban brownfield regeneration sites. The tour also went to some of the UK’s most deprived estates where progress is being made with regeneration, but significant barriers…

Renew advisory group dig deeper into regeneration in Leeds 

Our Renew Advisory Group met to review activity so far, including the launch of Unlocking over 500,000 good quality homes in the North, and what the project should prioritise to maintain momentum.  Following the meeting, the group…

NHC looks forward to working with new Prime Minister to ‘give hope for forgotten places’  

Andy Burham MP was today appointed as Prime Minister, the seventh Prime Minister in ten years.   Mr Burham has promised to ‘do things differently’ and to take a more collaborative approach to politics. He has pledged to launch a new…

Renew inquiry discussed in Westminster Hall debate on estate regeneration 

A Westminster Hall debate on estate regeneration was called by Luke Murphy, MP for Basingstoke. It triggered a lively discussion with broad consensus on the benefits of estate regeneration and the need to make sure it is done with residents…

Housing Minister welcomes Renew research at Westminster event

Housing Minister Matthew Pennycook MP spoke at the launch of the first Renew research report ‘Unlocking over 500,000 good quality homes in the North’.    The event took place in Westminster, and there was a strong turnout of…

NHC reaction to Andy Burnham MP’s speech

The Northern Housing Consortium (NHC) has today welcomed Andy Burnham’s focus on greater devolution of powers to places, and his statement that regeneration will be one of No10 North’s three priority areas. He stressed…

Leading the way with regeneration, devolution and partnership working – the Great North Theatre 26

The far-reaching role of housing-led regeneration, and the Renew inquiry, and partnership working have been big talking points at the Great Northern Theatre 26. The importance of housing-led regeneration shone through in the morning.…