This periodic listing contains a selection of the references recently added to the Greater Manchester Research Library Catalogue. It includes bibliographic references to books, reports, statistical series and journals held within GMR Library, covering planning, employment, economic development, urban policy, environment and other topics relevant to local government.

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CONTENTS

Reference
Economic Development
Economy
Employment
Europe
Health
Housing
Local Government
Planning
Population
Regional Development
Social Policy
Tourism
Transport
Urban Policy

REFERENCE

0004290
OFFICE FOR NATIONAL STATISTICS & DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION AND SKILLS
Education and training statistics for the United Kingdom 2003
The Stationery Office    2003 edition
STATISTICS

0004278
OFFICE FOR NATIONAL STATISTICS & DEPARTMENT FOR TRANSPORT
Transport statistics Great Britain 2003 edition
The Stationery Office  2003
STATISTICS
 

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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

AGENDA for Local Economic Development
Issue no 61  November 2003
Current research:
* School meals - costs and benefits; Healthy Eating Action Plan
LEDIS Case studies:
* Eden Project - facility for environmental, economic and social health and education
* Dalmuir Credit Union
* Access to Work project in the Machars (Dumfries & Galloway)
Issues in Focus:
* Community Planning in Scotland
* Community Interest Companies - entrepreneurship for communities

AGENDA for Local Economic Development
Issue no 62   December 2003
Current research:
* Employment legislation and small firms
LEDIS Case studies:
* Milton Keynes Community Foundation
* Linked Work and Training Trust Central in Falkirk
* Heeley City Farm, in south Sheffield
Publications and articles abstracted;
Issues in Focus:
* Entrepreneurial communities in rural areas
* Evaluating economic development partnerships

ESTATES GAZETTE
22 November 2003
* Olympic hurdles - Plans for the 2012 Olympics would regenerate a huge swathe of London but would also displace most of the area's businesses, who are not at all happy.

ESTATES GAZETTE
29 November 2003
Focus on North West Update:
* Industrial sector becalmed by lack of land
* Quality speculative office developments snapped up
* Several major revamps and extensions online for retail sector

ESTATES GAZETTE
6 December 2003
* Sir John Egan was briefed to find ways to attract talent into planning - instead he produced a far-reaching overhaul of the planning system itself, covering planning, environment and tax policy.
* Focus on West Midlands

INDUSTRIAL EVOLUTION
England's Northwest: Birthplace of the Industrial Evolution
Published by Sustainability Northwest and the Northwest Development Agency as part of the BA Festival of Science, September 2003
Features include:
* Building new benchmarks - sustainability in design and construction
* Environmental technology and sustainable science
* Natural clean up technologies for contaminated land
* Low carbon solutions to help control climate change
* Cleaning up the region's waterways
Includes regional contacts and context, and online resource listings

LOCAL ECONOMY
Vol 18 no 3   August 2003
* Neighbourhood governance: Holy Grail or poisoned chalice?
* Cooperation in industrial ecology - the case of Eco-industrial development
* Frameworks for examining community participation in a multi-level environment
Focus on Time Banks and LETS in local economic development:
* Origins of Time Banks and their importance in community participation
* Rushey Green and time banks as a tool for community self-help
* Time Banking in the Gorbals, Glasgow - towards sustainable economic development
* Lessons from LETS schemes - can time banks do it better?

LOCAL WORK - Centre for Local Economic Strategies
No 54  December 2003
Regenerating communities - the role of extended schools, by Claire Millett, CLES

MANCHESTER UPDATE -Manchester City Council
Vol 8 issue 3   December 2003
* New future for Victoria Baths after £3m restoration grant
News on:
* Urban regeneration
* Economy
* Employment including jobs gained/lost and roundup
* Development - including Manchester and North West
* Planning - applications approved

0004280
UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER CENTRE FOR URBAN POLICY STUDIES
Measuring the economic impact of higher education in the North West
region, by Brian Robson, Iain Deas and David Whyte
University of Manchester CUPS     September 2002
378.427

0004277
UNITED KINGDOM SCIENCE PARK ASSOCIATION
The planning, development and operation of science parks, edited by
Malcolm Parry and Peter Russell
UKSPA    September 2000
338.476
 
 

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ECONOMY
 

BANK OF ENGLAND QUARTERLY BULLETIN
Winter 2003   Volume 43 number 4
* Survey shows more than one third of people are £3,500 in debt, and 26 per cent owe more than £5,000, with one tenth of people feeling that unsecured debt is a burden on the household.
* E-payments - innovations in retail payments
* Financial stability and the UK's external balance sheet
* Summaries of recent Bank of England Working Papers

BUSINESS FORECASTS NORTHWEST
Autumn 2003
Northwest Economic Forecasting Panel for NWDA & NW Regional Intelligence Unit
Economy -  Northwest, UK and world;
Forecasts -
* NW economic outlook
* UK and NW GDP
* Sector output
* Expenditure
* Labour market
* Prices and earnings
* Construction and Property
* Historical data

0004295
DEMOS & ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CHARTERED SURVEYORS (RICS)
Northern soul - culture, creativity and quality of place in Newcastle
and Gateshead, by Anna Minton
RICS  2003
338.474287

0004296
DEMOS, ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CHARTERED SURVEYORS (RICS) & BURA
Boho Britain - creativity, diversity and the remaking of our cities
The Boho Britain Creativity Index  2003
338.4742

NATWEST QUARTERLY SURVEY OF SMALL BUSINESS IN BRITAIN
November 2003  Q3
* Small firms' performance has recovered some lost ground and confidence about prospects is up.
* Hotels and restaurants remain most positive and retailers have recovered most.
* Firms more reliant on owners' financial resources, rather than external sources.
* Performance - comparisons across regions, business sectors and size bands;
* Expectations - comparisons across business sectors, size bands and regions;
* Problems ranked worst are general economic climate and gvt regulations;

NATWEST QUARTERLY SURVEY OF SMALL BUSINESS IN BRITAIN
2003 Q4
* Weak performance in the UK's small firms sector in the third quarter of 2003 dented confidence about the final quarter.
* Retailers report worst performance and are not optimistic about the Christmas period.
* Electronic trading or e-commerce is not yet widely exploited by small companies, despite increased use of technology.
* Statistics for performance and expectations across regions, business sectors and size bands;
* Problems remain over-regulation by government and paperwork, but smallest firms cite hostile economic climate as their worst problem;
* ICT - Wider use of technology evident but less than 60% of small firms have a web-site and only 8% have an e-commerce site.

UNITED KINGDOM NATIONAL ACCOUNTS - The Blue Book 2003
National Statistics
Estimates of the domestic and national product, income and expenditure of the UK, based on European System of Accounts  1995 (ESA95)
* Main aggregates (eg GDP and national income) and summary accounts
* Industrial analyses
* Sector accounts
* Environmental accounts
Other analyses and derived statistics
 

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EMPLOYMENT
 

BOTTOM LINE - Greater Manchester Low Pay Unit
Autumn 2003
Pensions Special -
* Covers pensions crisis and solutions;
* Pensioners poverty;
* Age discrimination

GREATER MANCHESTER LOW PAY UNIT BRIEFING
December 2003
Job vacancies and rates of pay in Greater Manchester 2003
* Increasing number and variety of vacancies but still predominantly low paid

0004287
GREATER MANCHESTER LOW PAY UNIT
Jobwatch 2003 - a survey of vacancies in Greater Manchester
Jobcentres, by Claire Faichnie
GMLPU    December 2003
331

LABOUR MARKET TRENDS
November 2003  Vol 111 no 11
Labour market update, assessment, news and research;
Spotlight includes:
* Economic activity of young people
* Women in the labour market
* Sickness absence
* Teleworking
Features includes:
* Job mobility and job tenure in the UK
* Labour market turning points
* Work permits and foreign labour in the UK
* Seasonally adjusting the Average Earnings Index excluding bonuses series

LABOUR MARKET TRENDS
December 2003  Vol 111 no 12
Labour market update, assessment, news and research;
Spotlight includes:
* Homeworkers by occupation and industry
* People with disabilities and the labour market
* Ethnic groups by economic activity
* Job-related training
Features:
* Patterns of pay - results of the 2003 New Earnings Survey
* Economic inactivity among students
* Changes to self-employment in the UK, 2002-3

LABOUR RESEARCH
December 2003  Vol 92 no 12
* Pub and restaurant workers at increased risk from passive smoking
* Laws on faith discrimination leave some loopholes
* Making workplaces disability-friendly

LABOUR RESEARCH
January 2004  Vol 93 no 1
* Unions face increasing employer hostility
* Unionised women and working parents fare better on pay and work conditions
* Local authority health and safety services in crisis - ten best and worst LAs

WORKING BRIEF
December/January 2004   Issue 150
Pre-budget report:
* Increasing employment opportunities for all
* Learning and Skills, and Education Maintenance Allowances
* Full employment in every city and region
* Trade unions, professional bodies and workforce development
* NEET (Young people under 19 not in education, employment or training) figures at 181,000 and rising;
* Barriers to employment and support for asylum seekers and migrants;
* Worklessness in Hackney and Merthyr Tydfil;
* Self-employment sector grows whilst statistics for employees are falling
 
 

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EUROPE

EUROPEAN INFORMATION SERVICE
3 November   Issue 244
UK acts on social inclusion with a bi-annual national action plan, and welfare changes to benefit working families with children, and the LGA's campaign to encourage councils to promote benefit take-up;
Funding programmes:
* Large scale youth projects
* International non-governmental youth organisations
* Legal and policy responses to tackle discrimination
* Sustainable use of Europe's natural resources
* Sustainable energy projects
* Improving environmental performance of freight transport

EUROPEAN INFORMATION SERVICE
8 December 2003    No 245
Manchester City Council singled out for praise by UK Treasury for its euro changeover preparations;
Funding programmes:
* Media Plus grants for film festivals
* Bremen partnership award for local authorities and businesses
* Non-governmental organisations against discrimination
* Ehealth awards for good practice in new health technology
* 2004 town twinning grant
* Food safety research
* International Walk to School Award
* Promoting understanding of non-EU countries
 
 

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HEALTH

HEALTH STATISTICS QUARTERLY
Winter 2003  No 20
Health indicators and recent publications;
Articles include:
* Estimating excess winter mortality in England and Wales
* Trends in social class differences in mortality by cause, 1986 to 2000
* Infant and perinatal mortality by social and biological factors, 2002
 

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HOUSING
 

AXIS - Housing, planning and regeneration
Vol 57.10
* Community strategies and local development frameworks
* Gvt economic development is only helping the most prosperous regions
* Manchester and Salford Pathfinder gets £125m, a quarter of the £500m pot
* Thurrock council wants an Urban Development Corporation to support its work on Thames Gateway
* Building green homes requires a financial incentive
* Regeneration programmes must include better-targeted drug strategies

AXIS - Housing, planning and regeneration
Vol 57.10
* Community strategies and local development frameworks
* Gvt economic development is only helping the most prosperous regions
* Manchester and Salford Pathfinder gets £125m, a quarter of the £500m pot
* Thurrock council wants an Urban Development Corporation to support its work on Thames Gateway
* Building green homes requires a financial incentive
* Regeneration programmes must include better-targeted drug strategies

0004281
INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH
Housing, equality & choice, by Chris Holmes
IPPR  2003
363.5

ROOF
November/December 2003
Housing associations are muscling in on the traditional territory of the private developer - will they be any good at it
Rural homes for local people -  social housing practice

ROOF
January/February 2004
* Landlords in nine Pathfinder areas may pull out of the social housing market if plans to pay housing allowances direct to tenants go ahead
* Manchester and Salford  have £125m to reverse their failing housing markets
* Identifying housing need among minority communities
* Roof Index 2003

0004288
TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ASSOCIATION
Home truths - setting out the evidence of the need for more new homes
TCPA  2003
363.5
 
 

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LOCAL GOVERNMENT

LARIA News
October 2003  Newsletter no 73
* Research in Norfolk County Council;
* One Number Census - the LGA Review
* Demos Project
* Cultural context: marketing services to older people
* Regional Information and Statistical Framework

LOCAL GOVERNMENT CHRONICLE
7 November 2003
* BNP members and other extremists could gain control over policing if home secretary David Blunkett presses ahead with plans for directly elected police authorities, says Association of Police Authorities chair Ruth Henig;
* Audit Commission gives Manchester city council `excellent' rating for housing management services due to significant improvement, with more facilities online, including repairs booking. Council praised for addressing nuisance neighbours and anti-social behaviour, but average re-let times on empty properties has deteriorated, and value for money on repairs service yet to be fully demonstrated.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT CHRONICLE
21 November 2003
* Time to place your BIDS please - Business Improvement Districts are the gvt's latest gamble but whether they achieve all that is hoped for them is a different matter entirely

LOCAL GOVERNMENT CHRONICLE
28 November 2003
Regeneration special:
* Northmoor Homezone finalist for ODPM Sustainable Communities award
* Public spaces must be safe, clean and interesting, not homogeneous

LOCAL GOVERNMENT CHRONICLE
5 December 2003
Regeneration special:
* RDAs are hampered in their role promoting regional government
* Do Local Strategic Partnerships dilute local democracy?
* Thurrock and other London councils resurrect Urban Development Corporations to support Thames Gateway regeneration project

MUNICIPAL JOURNAL
6 November 2003
* Manchester's provisional census estimates revised upwards by 20,000 for 2001 and 22,000 for 2002

MUNICIPAL JOURNAL
13 November 2003
* Who cares about regional assemblies? - no-one, according to shadow local government secretary Eric Pickles, who says they will mean more taxes, more politicians and more bureaucracy;
* GLA report on cinemas urges local councils to take an interest in what can often impact on regeneration and be a major aid to local businesses;
* Oldham councillors call for probe into care home partnership deal which accounts for half of £1.8m  budget overspend

MUNICIPAL JOURNAL
20 November 2003
Stockport Council Focus
* Interviews with Leader and Chief Executive;
* HR - the key to success;
* Finance services;
* A growing community;
* A keen eye on social services, plus education, environment, e-services and crime prevention

MUNICIPAL JOURNAL
28 November 2003
Sustainable Communities Plan:
* Progress on the plan for  200,000 new homes in the South East
* Housing market renewal in the North, including Rochdale-Oldham and Manchester-Salford Pathfinders

MUNICIPAL JOURNAL
18 December 2003
* Capita is processing Westminster's benefits in Blackburn - how many other councils could or should operate via call centres in or outside the UK?
* CPA results published - Bury most improved council rising from weak to fair; Bolton and Tameside excellent

MUNICIPAL JOURNAL
8 January 2004
* Festivals are bringing benefits to towns and cities all over Britain, such as Wigan's International Jazz Festival, an eight-day event attended by nearly 9,000 people, which brings prestige and an important economic boost to the town.
 
 

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PLANNING

0004279
CITY OF SALFORD DEVELOPMENT SERVICES
Draft planning policy in Salford - City of Salford unitary development plan: revised deposit draft replacement plan 2003-16 (Includes written statement, proposals and amendments maps, schedule of changes
and sustainability appraisal by Baker Associates)
Salford City Council    November 2003
711.43

0004284
LOCAL AUTHORITIES RESEARCH & INFORMATION ASSOCIATION
Local information for neighbourhood planning - proceedings of the 2002
LARIA annual conference, edited by Graham Smith.
LARIA  2003
352
Papers on:
* Neighbourhood renewal research
* Local leadership
* Joined Up Geography Testbed
* Neighbourhood statistics
* Community profiling
* Evidence-based policy
* Community strategies

0004276
MANCHESTER CITY COUNCIL
Unitary development plan for the city of Manchester - first deposit
alterations - ALT 15: Regeneration area - introduction; ALT 16: City
Centre - policies RC3, RC11 and RC20
Manchester City Council    November 2003
711.43

0004286
OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER
The relationships between community strategies and local development
frameworks - final report by Entec UK Ltd
ODPM    October 2003
307.12

PLANNING
7 November 2003
* Seaside towns appear to have adapted well to economic changes and, with care and attention, can thrive, says a new report

PLANNING
28 November 2003
* Urban coding and sustainable development to be introduced into planning, says Prescott
* Policies directed at forcing families into the inner cities are pointless, says Robert Gillespie
* Contaminated sites offer valuable business opportunities if risks are properly managed

PLANNING
5 December 2003
Focus on Thames Gateway:
* Kent Thamesside developers intent on building sustainable communities with employment and housing
* Second-generation Urban Development Corporation for Thurrock
* East London boroughs wary of extent of powers of prospective East London Urban Development Corporation

PLANNING
12 December 2003
* Last orders for use classes - changes to halt the spread of bars and pubs
* South Yorkshire former coal communities in drive towards economic transformation
* High density developments must take privacy and noise issues seriously

TOWN & COUNTRY PLANNING
November 2003   Vol 72 no 10
* Balance of human rights in planning decisions
* Environmental planning
* ODPM guidance for Strategic Environmental Assessment
* Buchanan report Traffic in Towns revisited
* Integrating light rapid transit and cycling
* Eradicating the cash-in-hand economy in deprived communities
* Gated communities and social inclusion policies

TOWN & COUNTRY PLANNING
December 2003   Vol 72 no 11
* Barriers to sustainable brownfield development
* How to meet public sector costs of development using taxation options
* How Slow Cities and Smart Growth can achieve Liveability

0004277
UNITED KINGDOM SCIENCE PARK ASSOCIATION
The planning, development and operation of science parks, edited by
Malcolm Parry and Peter Russell
UKSPA    September 2000
338.476
 

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POPULATION

0004289
OFFICE FOR NATIONAL STATISTICS
Mortality statistics - general - Review of the Registrar General on
deaths in England and Wales, 2001
The Stationery Office          2003
DH1 no 34
STATISTICS

POPULATION TRENDS
Autumn 2003   No 113
* Looking beyond the 2001 Census
* Quality Assurance issues in the One Number Census
* Implications of 2001 Census for mid-year population estimates
* A demographic statistics series for the 21st century
Reports:
* Internal migration estimates for local and health authorities, England and Wales 2002
* Revised international migration estimates 1991-2001
* Divorces, England and Wales 2002

POPULATION TRENDS
Winter 2003   No 114
* Fertility assumptions for the 2002-based national population projections;
* Changes in the distribution of marital age differences , 1963 to 1998
* Unmarried parenthood: new insights from the Millennium Cohort Study
* Mid-2002 population estimates report
 

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REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT

 
315 - the NWDA magazine
October 2003  Issue 01
* Interview with Steven Broomhead, NWDA chief executive
* Investment in science to promote regional competitiveness
* Accommodating the knowledge economy
* Business finance available via EU-backed £17m NW Business Investment Scheme
* Merger of UMIST with Victoria University of Manchester will create the UK's largest university
* Newlands community woodlands scheme
* Liverpool capitalises on culture for 2008
* NW tourism revamp and revitalisation
* Manchester Airport's £60m Ground Transport Interchange

0004285
LOCAL FUTURES GROUP
State of the Nation - a geographical perspective on Britain (Includes CD-Rom with full data sets and interactive analysis tools)
Local Futures Group    July 2003
330.941
 

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SOCIAL POLICY

YOUNG PEOPLE TODAY
5 - 11 November 2003
* Some employers take exploit under-age employees with potentially horrific consequences.

YOUNG PEOPLE TODAY
19-25 November 2003
* The facts behind the figures - does money allocated to youth services by local authorities really reach young people? Includes LEA youth service budgets 2003-04 and percentage change from 2002-03

YOUNG PEOPLE TODAY
26 November - 2 December 2003
* Young carers - a project in West London supports young people who look after members of their family whilst keeping up with school
* Under surveillance - teenagers under increased scrutiny from security conscious youth agencies
 

YOUNG PEOPLE TODAY
3-9 December 2003
* Healthy eating projects for young people in Scotland
* First National Youth Conference
 
 

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TOURISM
 

INSIGHTS - The Tourism Marketing Intelligence Service
November 2003
Articles:
* Corporate social responsibility and UK tourism
* Sustainable tourism management
Market Profile:
* US market - are the Americans coming back?
Case study:
* Ludlow Marches Food and Drink Festival
* UK Holiday Parks
Statistics:
* UK occupancy survey of serviced accommodation 2002
 

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TRANSPORT

0004291
MERSEYTRAVEL
Merseytravel land use/regeneration and transport seminar - Wednesday
26 February 2003 - proceedings
Merseytravel  2003
333.77
 

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URBAN POLICY

0004283
ASSOCIATION OF GREATER MANCHESTER AUTHORITIES
Sharing the vision - a strategy for Greater Manchester
AGMA  2003
711.43

0004285
LOCAL FUTURES GROUP
State of the Nation - a geographical perspective on Britain (Includes
CD-Rom with full data sets and interactive analysis tools)
Local Futures Group    July 2003
330.941

REGENERATION & RENEWAL
7 November 2003
* Census revision leaves Manchester £7.5 million a year better off in grant allocation;
* Lancashire County Cricket Club may relocate to a new stadium in east Manchester, bringing jobs and investment;
* Spending by RDAs on science, engineering and technology is not targeting regional economic priorities, says Beth Perry;
* The `Lawn' scheme has been successfully moving tenants from London to empty homes in the North for three years;

REGENERATION & RENEWAL
21 November 2003
* Councils in the North West could gain £130m in cash rewards for the successful economic development of their areas as soon as 2005;
* NWDA to draw up brownfield action plans for sites in GM and East Lancashire as part of £100,000 pilot scheme for regenerating brownfield land;
* Land Value Taxation - could it resolve the dichotomy between regeneration and the system of land ownership and taxation?
* How to retain income in deprived areas after initial investment;

REGENERATION & RENEWAL
28 November 2003
* A-Z of Funding 2003/4 - over 100 UK regeneration funding sources
* London Wetlands Centre, a green oasis of wildlife conservation for city dwellers

REGENERATION & RENEWAL
12 December 2003
* Changes to employment laws could force regeneration schemes to pay statutory redundancy pay to contract workers
* 2003 Year Review
 

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