Community: further resources

Websites

• Centre for Accessible Environments
  www.cae.org.uk
  Provides information on designing accessible environments.
  
  
• Community Development Foundation
  www.cdf.org.uk
  Enables people to participate effectively in decisions affecting their living conditions.
  Tel: 0207 226 5375
  
  
• Community Self Build Agency
  www.communityselfbuildagency.org.uk
  Tel: 0207 415 7092
  
  
• Development Trusts Association
  www.dta.org.uk
  Promotes the work of community development trusts.
  Tel: 0845 4588336
  07793 321 731 - Regional Office
  
  
• The National Housing Federation
  www.housing.org.uk 

• Neighbourhood Initiatives Foundation
  www.nifonline.org.uk
  Supports community development.
  Tel: 0870 7700339
  
  
• New Economics Foundation
  www.neweconomics.org
  Includes "Participation Works!" -21 techniques for community participation for the 21 st century.
  
  
• People for Action
  www.peopleforaction.org.uk
  Forms networks with housing associations and offers solutions for sustainable action.
  Tel: 0121 633 3836
  
  
• Sustainable Communities:Building for the Future (Communities Plan), 2003
  www.odpm.gov.uk
  
  
• Urban White Paper (DETR 2000)
  www.urban.odpm.gov.uk/whitepaper
  Makes the case for community engagement to achieve urban renaissance.
  
  
• Rural White Paper (DETR 2000)
  www.defra.gov.uk/rural/ruralwp
  
  
• Sustainable Homes (DETR 2000)
  www.sustainablehomes.co.uk
  Funded by the Housing Corporation, it promotes awareness of sustainable development issues and encourages housing associations to adopt sustainable policies and practices.

Further reading

• A Better Quality of Life: A Strategy for Sustainable Development for the UK. (See Ch 7:Building Sustainable Communities)
  DETR May 1999.

• Building the 21 st Century Home: The Sustainable Urban Neighbourhood
  by D. Rudlin and N. Falk Architectural Press, Oxford 1999.

• Achieving Community Benefits through Contracts: law, policy and practice.
  R. MacFarlane and M.Cook for Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
  www.jrf.org.uk 

• Make it Happen
  J. Caplin for Social Enterprise Services Tools & techniques for community self-improvement.

• But will we want to live there?
  Planning for People & Neighbourhoods in 2020
  C.L Andrews, W Reardon-Smith, M Townsend.
  http://www.housingcorplibrary.org.uk/

• Crime and Disorder Act 1998
  www.homeoffice.gov.uk 

• Secured by Design
  www.securedbydesign.com/developers/index.html 

• Shaping Neighbourhoods: A Guide to Health, Sustainability and Vitality
  by H. Barton, M. Grant and R. Guise.
  Spon Press 2003.