Learning from your next-door neighbours: A European Network for Neighbourhood Policy
Across the UK, policymakers are once again placing greater emphasis on neighbourhood renewal, including through programmes such as Pride in Place. But many of the challenges facing disadvantaged neighbourhoods at home - from housing pressures and weak social infrastructure to geographic inequality and declining trust - are shared across Europe. Other countries have spent decades experimenting with different approaches to neighbourhood regeneration, creating a valuable body of experience from which the UK can learn.
This paper places the UK’s neighbourhood agenda in a wider European context. It examines how different countries have sought to regenerate disadvantaged neighbourhoods, what has and has not worked, and what these experiences can tell us about the conditions needed for successful neighbourhood policy.
Drawing on case studies from France, Italy, Catalonia, the Netherlands, Poland and the UK, the paper identifies lessons that can inform neighbourhood policy both at home and across Europe. It also explores how European institutions could better support neighbourhood-level action through stronger comparative evidence, cross-border learning and funding frameworks that give communities a more meaningful role in shaping regeneration.
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