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This chapter examines the challenges inherent in partnership working with communities and service users and the questions of power and power imbalances in partnerships for community regeneration. It describes the evaluations of a range of regeneration initiatives and considers how far the continuing barriers to partnership can be eroded and the tensions addressed. It discusses some of the practical steps that need to be taken to strengthen partnership working in policy making, service delivery, consultation and training.

This chapter reflect on the author's experiences as the local partner lead for two University of Leeds-led projects. It explores what can be understood from them about the relationship between communities, digital heritage archives, institutions, and heritage engagement. Heritage (hi)stories, digital skills enhancement, and community empowerment are frequently cited ingredients in the mix of approaches to promoting community regeneration and development. Between October 2014 and March 2015, the two projects explored some of these themes with residents of the Isle of Bute, Scotland. Jointly, the projects brought together community, academic, institutional, and private sector partners to create new digital tools to support heritage-based community research and creative expression, and to further explore questions about heritage perception and digital engagement. Thus, this chapter discusses the meaningful contribution that projects such as Pararchive can make in the wider context of national ambitions for digitally engaged communities, and how project implementation might usefully be aligned with local communities in the future.

This chapter explores how concepts and vocabularies emerging in relation to digital culture provided the context from which a public artwork, the ‘digital totem pole’ was created in Wester Hailes, Edinburgh, Scotland. The chapter specifically considers how the digital media practices of ‘hacking’ and ‘read–writing’ provided the conceptual framework for the design of the physical digital platform. The relevance of the pole’s design and practicality to contemporary governance in the context of the ‘Big Society’ agenda, community engagement and regeneration is also considered. The chapter also highlights that this form of ‘hacking-inspired’ community art was possible through co-production between researchers and local residents. The chapter highlights the heuristic nature of the design intervention, and the risks of employing discourses derived from digital media culture to inform and inspire new models of governance, social reality and community regeneration.

This concluding chapter discusses Liverpool's prospects in the new millennium. The Port of Liverpool, for example, is undergoing rapid transformation with plans of new cultural and leisure facilities. The city is also becoming a leading site for call centres, new factories. Its potential as a major tourist centre is also being increasingly acknowledged. Liverpool has also been developing a reputation for innovation in community-based regeneration. Finally, the chapter discusses the role of civic and political leadership in the development and regeneration of Liverpool.

This chapter examines the place of social housing at the centre of social exclusion policy. It considers organisational vehicles for advancing the community regeneration agenda and responding to the immediate challenges of introducing the Best Value and Tenant Participation Compact regimes. It explores partnership activity in social housing at an operational level and describes the five main areas of operational partnership activity. It evaluates prospects for the development of operational partnerships and the place of partnership activity in housing service delivery.

This chapter evaluates the contemporary evidence about health inequalities and discusses the ways in which new evidence has allowed for the development of much more subtle and fine-grained approaches to the process of explaining health inequalities. It examines the relationship between health status and health services, and the way in which a partial rehabilitation of the concept of society since Margaret Thatcher has created space for a more creative relationship between the social sciences and the politics of health inequalities. The chapter explains that community regeneration or neighbourhood renewal and tackling health inequalities in Wales both involve interventions in wicked issues or problems.