Bristol City Council: Regeneration

Regeneration

Bristol City Council is working to improve the city's built environment, reduce social exclusion in our most disadvantaged neighbourhoods, strengthen the city's economy and improve access to employment and training, particularly for people living in deprived neighbourhoods.

Improving Bristol's built environment

A variety of major regeneration schemes are taking place across the city and are listed below. For further information about these developments visit our 'Transforming Bristol's built environment' pages or click on the page links in the table below:

Bristol City Council: Regeneration

Bristol URBAN Programme - Introduction

The Bristol URBAN Programme is a community-led initiative to encourage and support local residents to regenerate the area where they live.

The URBAN area covers a population of over 17,000 residents in the wards of Ashley, parts of Easton and Lawrence Hill as shown on the area map. It includes St Pauls, St Werburghs, St Agnes, Barton Hill, Redcliffe, Old Market and parts of Easton.

The Programme's focus has been to improve the training and employment prospects of the local community, by increasing empowerment, participation and wealth and enhance the impact of existing regeneration programmes.

Bristol URBAN Programme - Introduction

London Profiler

Welcome to the NEW London Profiler website!
Here you can visualise your neighbourhood's profile using different area classifications through the Google Map interface.

London Profiler

Where a baby girl is a mother's awful shame

Over the past 20 years in India, 10 million female babies have been aborted. The pressure to have sons is terrifying - mothers who bear daughters are beaten or cast aside by husbands and in-laws desperate to escape the financial burden of a girl's dowry. Now mothers are being urged to 'save the girl child' as the country tries to end decades of tragic abuse

Where a baby girl is a mother's awful shame World news The Observer

Store is the Core | Helping Village Shops Thrive

STORE IS THE CORE is an advisory and grant programme designed to help sustain existing village shops and to encourage the development of community owned shops in the South West of England

Home Store is the Core Helping Village Shops Thrive

Rural Shops Alliance

The RSA is an alliance of key suppliers, authorities
and other organisations, working for and on behalf of independent
village shops across the country

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Rich countries launch great land grab to safeguard food supply

Rich governments and corporations are triggering alarm for the poor as they buy up the rights to millions of hectares of agricultural land in developing countries in an effort to secure their own long-term food supplies.

The head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, Jacques Diouf, has warned that the controversial rise in land deals could create a form of "neo-colonialism", with poor states producing food for the rich at the expense of their own hungry people

Rich countries launch great land grab to safeguard food supply Environment The Guardian

Wiltshire news

Wiltshire news, sports, classifieds & more ! Definitive guide to the Wiltshire area - updated daily!

UK net immigration up to 237,000

Net immigration to the UK increased to 237,000 in 2007, according to the Office for National Statistics.

That is 46,000 more than in 2006 - as a result of emigration falling faster than immigration.

BBC NEWS Politics UK net immigration up to 237,000

Deforestation in Mato Grosso, Brazil

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Deforestation in Mato Grosso, Brazil : Image of the Day

Community First

Community First is a charity that works at the forefront of community development to help improve the quality of life and economic well being of people and local communities throughout Wiltshire and Swindon.
We work in close partnership with local grass roots communities, voluntary organisations, statutory agencies and funders to help develop and deliver wide ranging community programmes that bring social, economic and environmental benefits to local people in Wiltshire and Swindon.

Village Shops

actnow broadband Cornwall

Led by Cornwall Enterprise, actnow is a not-for-profit partnership project dedicated to accelerating economic growth and social inclusion in Cornwall through the use of the Internet and ICT.

Home - actnow broadband Cornwall - ensuring that wherever businesses are in Cornwall, they have access to broadband

Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE)

HIE is the Scottish Government's economic development agency for the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. We work with private businesses and enterprising public and third sector organisations to build sustainable economic growth across a diverse and beautiful region, from Shetland to Argyll and from the Outer Hebrides to Moray. We are committed to developing the Highlands and Islands as a competitive region which is home to strong communities, successful, high growth businesses and excellent quality of life.

Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE)

UNDP | H2O Knowledge Fair

About the fair
Sound water governance is one of the key challenges facing our world in the 21st century. UNDP has organized this virtual exhibition to enable experts and practitioners to share best practices and solutions.

NDP H2O Knowledge Fair

WaterAid UK site

WaterAid UK site

Regeneration and Renewal

This page describes regeneration and renewal activities by the various agencies in West Cornwall

Regeneration and Renewal

Loading up Amazon.com this Christmas

Ten years ago, Amazon started selling books. Today, in the UK alone, it is receiving nearly 1m orders a day, having transformed itself into a giant online shopping mall. It is now challenging all the major high street chains for the title of Britain's biggest retailer, shipping millions of items at rock-bottom prices.

Earlier this year it opened one of Europe's largest warehouses in Swansea, 60% bigger than its existing monster-sized distribution centre in Milton Keynes. But already the firm is seeking a site for another huge warehouse as it anticipates sales growth of at least 15%. Other retailers are mired in gloom as consumer spending is hit by the credit crunch. But not Amazon - it is already tooling up for its next big move, with the launch early next year of a low-cost, music download service that could rival Apple iTunes

Loading up Amazon.com this Christmas Money The Guardian

The climate system

INTERACTIVE animation of CLIMATE

Good Global Circulation Model

The climate system

Atlas of hidden water

What the UNESCO map reveals is just how many aquifers cross international borders. So far, the organisation has identified 273 trans-boundary aquifers: 68 in the Americas, 38 in Africa, 155 in Eastern and Western Europe and 12 in Asia.

Each trans-boundary aquifer holds the potential for international conflict - if two countries share an aquifer, pumping in one country will affect its neighbour's water supply.

Atlas of hidden water may avert future conflict - environment - 24 October 2008 - New Scientist

GLOBALISATION is good