THE Masefield housing estate in Northfield, a suburb of Birmingham, is in many ways a typical 1960s council development.
"It is important there is total transparency about how the cuts will impact, who and where they will hit the hardest and their combined effect with local council, Development Agency and education cuts.
Further up the valley is the Byker Wall, part of the Byker estate, a then-revolutionary, partly flawed, now listed 1970s council development famous for the human scale of its detail and for the ways in which architect Ralph Erskine consulted residents about their needs and wishes.
However, council development officers said the huts would significantly enhance the area's tourism appeal.
Guided by the Institute of Medicine's Community, Health Improvement Process framework, we first developed a logic model that delineated processes and intermediate systems-level outcomes in council development, planning, and community action.
Dan Hudson, council development strategy group manager, said: "The council has an ambition to deliver new and affordable homes that are sustainable and well designed".
Dawn Easter, council development officer, said: "It has the potential to deliver a lot more jobs than it does at the moment".
As a part of the Practice Leadership initiative, a national support structure of established county council development centres was initiated with the aim to provide strategic support to the regional strategic management teams.
Councils and development agencies more than matched that sum.
