On the 27th & 28th January 2009, the Coastal Communities Alliance will be holding an event to launch the much awaited Coastal Regeneration Handbook and website.
The conference will begin at 13:00 on the 27th and conclude on the 28th.
The objectives of the conference
- Nationally launch the handbook
- Consolodate the considerable evidence on coastal resort issues
- Establish national coastal regeneration topic groups
- Establish post-launch events for enterprise, planning and health
- Media coverage for coastal resort issues
The Coastal Regeneration Handbook
The primary objective of the Coastal Regeneration Handbook is to reduce deprivation and improve the quality of life in coastal resorts by increasing the effectiveness of coastal regeneration practitioners. The handbook will seek to achieve this by:
- Stimulating new thinking and approaches for the development of local solutions to entrenched coastal resort problems.
- Clarifying ‘who’s who’ and ‘who’s doing what’ in coastal regeneration
- Improving the knowledge, effectiveness and cooperation of coastal regeneration practitioners and the various national, regional and local organisations that support the development of coastal communities
The Coastal Communities Alliance
The CCA is a virtual group of local authorities and coastal organisations that came into being in 2007 in response to the Government’s initial rejection of the recommendations of the Select Committee Inquiry into Coastal Towns.
The CCA objectives are to articulate, lobby and promote new thinking and solutions for the complex socio-economic problems existing in coastal areas.The “Coastal Regeneration Handbook… work in progress!” is part of that process and, like coastal regeneration, has been produced on a shoestring!
Delegates can expect
- The launch of the first Coastal Regeneration Handbook and the related website
- An update on national coastal regeneration developments by Dr Starkey
- The views on coastal resort regeneration by the three main political parties
- A full debate on the future of coastal regeneration
- Help form national coastal regeneration topic groups
- To help consolidate the CCA
Coastal Communities Alliance website
For more information on booking contact please contact: Events, Leisure, Culture and Tourism, Thanet District Council, 01843 577167
