The report examines the benefits and impact of NEM and assesses the contribution of different partners to the delivery of NEM goals.

It explores whether and how NEM brought added value to the whole east Manchester area.

It also looks at NEM's implementation arrangements and measures how successful the programme has been in attracting resources to the area.

New East Manchester (NEM) was one of the first three Urban Regeneration Companies designated by government in 2000 in response to Lord Rogers’ Urban Task Force report.

It is recognised as important that the lessons that have emerged about the roots of success and failure from URCs are learned and built into the next phase of urban policy.

In particular, the success of New East Manchester tells a lot about how the United Kingdom should best manage hard-pressed urban areas in future.

This report assesses NEM in relation to the specific goals it set itself but also in relation to a set of wider national success factors.

The report draws upon a variety of different evidence including:

It also rests upon detailed analysis of NEM’s achievements in:

The evaluation finds that NEM is making very good progress, is on course to reach many of its specific outputs and targets and is improving many of the social and economic conditions of the area.

New East Manchester
Phone: +44 161 223 1155
info@neweastmanchester.com

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01/01/2007

Researchers from the European Institute for Urban Affairs, Liverpool John Moores University.

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