ABSTRACT
The Urban Programme effectively ended in 1992, but the process of managed change continued with the City Challenge programme, which began in 1992-3 and ended in 1998. Members of the Planning Department who claimed they had instigated change through the Urban Programme and City Challenge were made redundant in 1997, with accusations circulating about corruption. Southview Challenge Company Limited (SCCL) was important in the sense that it came to symbolically represent the 'critical mass' of change. In Southview, the focus on institutional change as a means to enact social change provoked conflict. Nevertheless, the Executive of SCCL was open about the idea that they wanted to promote changes to local governance in Southview and to radically alter traditional institutional and funding practices. SCCL had a clear orientation towards not only regeneration per se but in altering the conditions of local economic and social organisation.
