Strategic Housing Investment Plan 2010 - Falkirk Council
Strategic Housing Investment Plan 2010 - Falkirk Council
Strategic Housing Investment Plan 2010 - Falkirk Council
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8. REGENERATION<br />
8.1 One of the key themes in the <strong>Council</strong>’s Corporate <strong>Plan</strong> is tackling disadvantage and<br />
discrimination and it is clear that investment in housing and regeneration activity<br />
can play a major role in helping to achieve sustainable improvements in particular<br />
priority areas. An important element in the <strong>Council</strong>’s Local <strong>Housing</strong> Strategy 2004-<br />
09 was the creation of development opportunities for new social housing through<br />
the redevelopment of areas of low demand housing stock which had blighted local<br />
communities.<br />
8.2 The SIMD 2009 (revised version) identified 17 data zones in the <strong>Falkirk</strong> <strong>Council</strong><br />
area which fall within the worst 15% overall in Scotland (Map 2). There are a total<br />
of 197 data zones in <strong>Falkirk</strong>, each with an average population of 750. The “worst<br />
15% data zones” are those where there are high aggregated measures of<br />
deprivation, based on income, employment, educational attainment, health and<br />
crime. 8.6% of <strong>Falkirk</strong>’s data zones fall within this definition of deprivation. This is a<br />
decrease of 1.4% since the previous SIMD data were published in 2006. Although<br />
there is no significant evidence of deprivation in relation to housing indices, it is<br />
considered that appropriate investment in housing conditions can play an important<br />
role in area regeneration strategies for specific priority estates.<br />
8.3 Those local data zones in the worst 15% in Scotland form the basis of the <strong>Council</strong>’s<br />
and Community <strong>Plan</strong>ning Partnership’s ten Priority Areas in relation to the<br />
Community Regeneration Strategy (Map 3). Within these areas, housing<br />
investment, involving <strong>Council</strong> stock improvements and development partnership<br />
activity in respect of new social housing provision, will be taken forward through the<br />
Standard Delivery <strong>Plan</strong> (SDP) and <strong>Strategic</strong> <strong>Housing</strong> <strong>Investment</strong> <strong>Plan</strong> (SHIP).<br />
8.4 The Priority Areas referred to above include parts of:<br />
• Dawson,<br />
• Grangemouth,<br />
• Camelon,<br />
• High Rise Flats, <strong>Falkirk</strong>,<br />
• Maddiston,<br />
• Westquarter,<br />
• Bo’ness,<br />
• Denny,<br />
• ‘The Bog’ area, <strong>Falkirk</strong>,<br />
• ‘The Valley’ area, Stenhousemuir.<br />
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