ABSTRACT
Private-management planning is premised on the belief that the recovery of some of the most deprived areas in the country can be achieved by private-sector agencies taking over the management, the resourcing and the direction of the renewal process. Public-sector agencies, in particular local authorities, are seen as having failed these areas. In contrast, the dynamism and imagination released by bringing in the private sector will, it is argued, enable such areas to be brought back to life. This chapter provides a study of private-sector management in practice by examining the takeover of a problem council estate in Knowsley, Merseyside, by a consortium of private agencies including Barclays Bank, the Abbey National Building Society and Barratts, a major volume house builder (Fig. 8.1).
