urban, rural and region - same difference?
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Urban, rural and region - Same Difference?
SURF seminar, Perth
7 November 2006
Alasdair McKinlay
Learning Connections Manager
Communities Scotland
Outline
• Asset ownership and Communities Scotland
• Opportunities
• What works
• Same difference?
Registered Social Landlords
• have loads of assets, 177 landlords own almost 260,000 homes ;
• are regulated; • have stable income streams;• have professional staff and support
structures; SFHA, SHARE, EVH
• Role not limited to housing
RSLs
• Audit Scotland found post stock transfer:
- Tenants consider the service is better
-Transfers have promoted greater tenant control
RSLs’ Wider Role
• Between April 2003 and end March 2006 £5.518m of WR funding had been spent supporting the development, purchase and creation of community assets
• Most are RSL owned multi purpose community facilities (the majority in Glasgow but with a spread right across the country)
RSLs’ Wider Role
• However there are some examples of community transport, work on renewable energy proposals, community owned workspaces, recycling centres
• WR funding always part of a wider package of funding
Futurebuilders
• Not all community based organisations
• But, are social economy and often targeted at communities of interest
• Over 60% of Investment Fund invested in urban areas and overall £11m invested in asset development
Futurebuilders
• Sense Scotland, £250,000 towards a £3.6m scheme to refurbish and renovate an office block in Kinning Park, Govan
• Inspire, £350, 000 towards a £1.6m new-build in Aberdeen
• Asset ownership as a way of increasing sustainability
Development Trusts
• Less active in urban areas and tend to be smaller scale
• But this changing
• Support to DTA Scotland to expand their work in Urban areas
Opportunities
• Capacity building to support BLF’s Growing Community Assets programme
• £250,000 per year 06/08 initially targeted at West central Scotland
• Focus on smaller groups with less capacity
• Make strong links to local Social Economy Partnerships - and do National development work
Opportunities
• Development and implementation of guidance and regulations on disposal of public sector land
• Social Investment Scotland, bespoke loan responses to community need
What works
• Role of RSLs can be very positive
• Not just as leaders, but as advisers and supporters
• Expertise in property development and management
• Can spin off new social enterprises, for example Development Trusts
What Works
• Supportive public sector
• As paying tenants, or by delivering mainstream services from assets
• Transferring assets
• Building community capacity
Same Difference?
Similarities?
• need to be business like; • need for ongoing revenue income; • need broad community buy in;• Technical issues in asset development
and management - whether buildings or land
Same difference?
Issues/Differences?
• Scale - Greater Easterhouse vs Gigha - defining urban communities in relation to assets
• Community organisations’ confidence and capacity and who builds it
Same difference?
• Generating revenues in the most disadvantaged areas - for example finding tenants, running money making businesses
• Risk of narrow focus on buildings? For example community centres?
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