There are many small social housing estates, where residents experience profound deprivation and disadvantage. These can be amongst the most disadvantaged neighbourhoods in an area, but are often not big enough to attract substantial regeneration funding or management initiatives. These estates sometimes become the housing of ‘last resort', home to the most disadvantaged and excluded families and individuals.

This project will identify solutions to long‐standing problems in such estates, drawing on the lessons from intensive work on three estates as well as wider research and practical evidence. In each estate we will bring together a range of stakeholders - public agencies, community groups and local residents - to identify the issues that affect residents quality of life, and design and develop approaches to alleviate these for local people. We will develop a toolkit of approaches that could work in other similar areas.

This scoping paper examines the context of housing and regeneration policy, and explores the impact of changing economic circumstances. It looks at the issues from the perspective of public services and residents and suggests different approaches to finding workable solutions.

To download a copy of this scoping paper please click here.