Sustainable Communities
This research group was set up in 2004 to investigate the initiation, development, design and management of mixed income and mixed tenure housing developments in response to the ODPM's policy initiative in 2003 entitled Sustainable Communities: Building for the Future. In 2004 the Group was awarded a contract by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation to prepare a Good Practice Guide on Creating and Sustaining Mixed Income Communities. The project team included Professor Nick Bailey, Anna Haworth, Dr Tony Manzi and Professor Marion Roberts, together with Primali Paranagamage who was appointed Research Fellow. The Good Practice Guide was published in 2006. In 2007 the team was invited to prepare a revised version of the Guide which related specifically to Scotland.
The Good Practice Guides are available on the Joseph Rowntree Foundation website:
Creating and Sustaining Mixed Income Communities: A Good Practice Guide
Chartered Institute of Housing/ Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2006
http://www.jrf.org.uk/sites/files/jrf/9781905018314.pdf
Creating and Sustaining Mixed Income Communities in Scotland: A Good Practice Guide
Chartered Institute of Housing/ Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2007
http://www.jrf.org.uk/sites/files/jrf/1946-mixed-income-communities-scotland.pdf
In 2007 the team carried out an evaluation of the masterplan for the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trusts proposed urban extension at Derwenthorpe in York.
In 2007 Nick Bailey and Tony Manzi worked with Urbed Ltd on a commission from English Partnerships and the Housing Corporation entitled Mixed Communities: Good Practice Guidance for management and Service Provision.
In 2008 Nick Bailey and Tony Manzi published a JRF Findings paper entitled Developing and Sustaining Mixed Tenure Housing Developments (available at http://www.jrf.org.uk/sites/files/jrf/2295.pdf)
Recent Book Chapters and Journal Articles:
- Bailey, N. (forthcoming) Building Sustainable Communities from the Grassroots: How Community Land Trusts can Create Social Sustainability. Chapter in Allen. J & Manzi, T (eds.) Social Sustainability. London: Earthscan
- Manzi, T and Smith-Bowers, W (2004) So many managers, so little vision: Registered social landlords and consortium schemes in the UK. European Journal of Housing Policy, 4(1), pp.57-75
- Roberts, M. (2007) Sharing space: Urban design and social mixing in mixed income communities. Planning Theory & Practice, 8(2), pp.183-204
The group regularly participates in conferences and workshops organised by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Department for Communities and Local Government and has made a number of presentations to professional bodies such as the Chartered Institute of Housing annual conferences in England and Scotland.
We continue to investigate mixed housing developments and have a particular interest in processes of collaboration between sectors, housing design, place shaping and infrastructure provision, provision for special needs and community facilities, sustainable management and the development of social capital in new communities.
Contact: Professor Nick Bailey
T: 0207 911 5000 ext 3117
E: baileyn@westminster.ac.uk
