Community into Business: Growing Hackney Through Social Enterprise
In January 2003, DEMOS was commisioned by HCD to produce a strategy and implementation plan for social enterprise in Hackney. This report is the result of three months of research involving interviews with over 30 practitioners in the social enterprise sector, and a mapping exercise which involved contacting over 250 social enterprises based in Hackney and interviewing over 70 of them.

The aim of the report is not to prescribe a fixed set of actions and solutions, but instead to suggest where various actors could make interventions most constructively. We hope this will enable local decision-makers to determine priorities and timescales for implementation on a well-informed basis, and turn the potential for Hackney's social enterprise sector, that this report helps to articulate, into a reality.

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Kingsland Basin Framework Study
A study of recent and planned developments to affect the Kingsland Basin. The principle elements being:

· The ongoing, redevelopment of the redundant eastern side of the Basin (Baltic Wharf, De Beauvoir Wharf, Kings Wharf, Commercial Wharf and Quebec Wharf).

· The current imminent proposal for the redevelopment of the north end of the Basin at Downham Road, and the Hertford Road site on the Southwest corner

· The immediate to medium term prospect of extensive redevelopments on the western side of the Basin.

· The extensive change in the character of the immediate area including the potential arrival of a tube station.

· The developing policies of the Local Authority to affordable housing, live/work accommodation and the content of Section 106 Agreements.

· The potential for future development by the major freeholder, the Benyon Trust.

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The Role of Retail in Neighbourhood Renewal and Regeneration: "Promoting community economic development by fostering retail vitality" by Adam Hart
A paper for The Local Food Retailing Conference, London, 9th July 2002
This paper presents the prospects for regeneration, rather than the familiar pattern of gentrification, in the Bradbury Street area of Dalston, Hackney. It shows how a re-valuation of the ground conditions in Dalston reveals all the hallmarks of a potentially successful neighbourhood. Its current retail vitality is a key component. It sets out the main conditions for sustainability in the community economic development of this area. It describes HCD's pivotal voluntary sector role in forging the three sector Gillett Square Partnership and the issues which need to be addressed if the local community is to remain a fair stakeholder in the determination of this area's future. It warns that full success is unlikely to be achieved or maintained without major improvements in local, metropolitan and national regeneration strategies.

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