ABSTRACT
From 1976 to 1979, community development was gradually tied ever closer to urban renewal and economic regeneration. Economic regeneration and the need to create jobs were implicitly recognised in 1972 Community Industry Scheme, which operated in economic black spots such as Glasgow, Liverpool and Wearside. Two new policy groups were considered by the Conservative government in 1973, one for housing and the other for the inner city. Heath agreed and the group was created to look at measures needed, according to its own Terms of Reference, to support the development of "healthy communities in the inner cities" with particular reference to poverty, housing, health, education and immigration. The Town and Country Planning Association had supported the extension of development corporation powers to improve the inner cities through new agencies directly responsible to the government. Shore stressed that main issue was to generate, and attract, greater levels of commercial activity and that all other policies were designed to enable economic regeneration.
