Ward, C;
(2008)
How and to what extent do English partnerships control the quality of provision of public space in public-private-partnerships?
Doctoral thesis , UCL (University College London).
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Abstract
The report looks at the relationship between the production of quality in public space and the arrangement of partners in Public-Private-Partnerships involving the Government's national regeneration agency, English Partnership. The paper argues that the particular arrangement of English Partnerships' projects enables the agency to demand high quality public space through development mechanisms, levers and controls that they have structured into their deals with the private sector. From a financial perspective, the paper concludes that EP's ability to control and influence the quality of public space varies site-by-site and is determined by the level of investment in public space a scheme can support given the value that the development is able to generate based on the requirements and restrictions of satisfying local planning policy and the local property market conditions in terms of capital values and rents for the site, the influence of the level of funding English Partnerships is able to invest into the site to subsidise the costs of the scheme and the attitude of the private partner towards investing in public space. However, the quality of public space is not solely determined by financial investment but is influenced by other factors such as the quality of design and community engagement in the development process, which are more reliant upon 1 political commitment towards public consultation, strong leadership and the championing of good design in the development process. English Partnerships ultimately use a variety of controls, either positive in nature such as leadership or political commitment or negative in nature such as imposed standards or regulation, that are embedded in the organisation of the PPP to promote and control the quality of public space.
| Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
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| Title: | How and to what extent do English partnerships control the quality of provision of public space in public-private-partnerships? |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Thesis digitised by ProQuest. Third party copyright material has been removed from the ethesis. Images identifying individuals have been redacted or partially redacted to protect their identity. |
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| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1569198 |
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