Administering regeneration in Wales: Policy and practice in a systems view
Author
Paget, David
Date
2017Type
Thesis
Publisher
Cardiff Metropolitan University
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As a public service in the UK, area-based regeneration is a multi-objective and multidisciplined
approach aimed at developing more equal places. Complexity is a delivery
challenge. There are problems with strategic coherence, public value and transparency.
Mainstream public services are however improving their understanding of public strategy
through embracing complexity. In Wales, with fifty years of experience of regeneration in
the field, re-viewing delivery complexity is worthy of similar attention.
In this study, an understanding of complexity and the management of local area
regeneration re-thinks public service regeneration as a single system. A first orientation in
Wales of regeneration in terms associated with a systems approach to managing change,
usefulness to regeneration administration would be the eventual test. A new £100 million
regeneration framework for Wales, Viable and Vibrant Places, provides the setting for
operational action research, where policy and practice was examined in a systemic inquiry,
over an extended period.
With the EU referendum result offering new possibilities, Well-being legislation in Wales
in early operation and some form of area-led regeneration reform in prospect, re-viewing
regeneration in a single system was found to offer real-time and predictive administrative
benefits to local area change: in understanding complexity, in the development of more
purposeful, adaptable and transparent strategy, in the evaluation of attribution and
sustainable regeneration integration.
The aggregate qualities that make up excellence in delivery in regeneration policy and
practice; ethical conduct, necessary knowledge and progressive measures, are appreciated
in an arête model structure designed to be able to support improved regeneration
conversations and delivery possibilities. Through systemic co-operation and collaboration
regeneration leadership in Wales can, in a new era of change, advance citizen involvement
and actor professionalism in the field, through new standards, and a plan that starts with
imaginative action in conference and other proceedings.
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PhD Thesis - School of Management
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