newlands : where we've come from



			Where we’ve come from In March 1997 the Newlands Partnership set out with £17.6 million of Single Regeneration Budget (SRB) and ambitious plans to empower the local community. Seven years on, the achievements have been outstanding. Where we started… The Newlands Partnership focused on the area covered by Thorpe Edge, Greengates, Ravenscliffe, Fagley, Thornbury and Bradford Moor. When the Newlands programme began the community suffered from long-term unemployment and the associated problems of poverty, crime, low educational achievements and poor health. But Newlands saw the area’s potential - a prime location on the Leeds side of Bradford adjacent to beautiful Yorkshire countryside - and the regeneration began. Equally important, the Newlands Partnership wanted to create sustainable investment growth, providing a solid foundation from which the community could continue to grow and flourish. What we did… Five areas key to the future welfare of Newlands were identified: Education and training Employment initiatives Environmental and physical infrastructure Crime prevention Social, community and health / cultural Community centres Land and building purchases A holistic approach to regenerating the Newlands area was taken, as it was vital that all the problems faced by the people of Newlands were tackled together. As a result, a range of projects designed to approach the problems within each key area were implemented.