ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how such aspirations played out in Haringey. It focuses on the experiences of community participants in Haringey regeneration programmes. The chapter considers how and to what extent such programmes fostered community capacity whether as defined within new Labour urban policy. At the heart of New Labour neighbourhood renewal policy was a belief that the quality of public services in deprived areas depended on the ability of residents to engage effectively with service providers and ensure that provision was shaped around their needs. The chapter interviews some regeneration initiatives, notably Joined Up Northumberland Park (JUNP) and West Green, were being wound down. The findings from Tottenham support Putnam's contention that vertical linkages of the kind described in it, no matter how dense and how important to participants cannot produce sustainable forms of social capital. Community participation in regeneration and the regeneration of Tottenham both seemed by 2006 to still be on life-support, requiring ongoing institutional support.
