IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/eurpls/v10y2002i4p495-517.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The Merseyside Objective One Programme: Exemplar of Coherent City-regional Planning and Governance or Cautionary Tale?

Author

Listed:
  • Richard Evans

Abstract

This paper demonstrates how the Merseyside Objective One (MO1) programme provided a platform for sub-regional partners to develop a consensus about strategic economic development priorities and resulted in innovations and collective learning particularly in terms of community economic development and closer engagement of Higher Educational Institutions and the private sector. However, such gains were partially offset by over-complex management arrangements, blurred accountability, competition for resources and match funding problems. Devolution of responsibility for programme content and implementation under the new Structural Fund regulations should allow partners to address many of these shortcomings in the second MO1 programme. Tighter financial controls may, however, reduce room for manoeuvre and discourage experimentation.

Suggested Citation

  • Richard Evans, 2002. "The Merseyside Objective One Programme: Exemplar of Coherent City-regional Planning and Governance or Cautionary Tale?," European Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 10(4), pages 495-517, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:eurpls:v:10:y:2002:i:4:p:495-517
    DOI: 10.1080/09654310220130202
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09654310220130202
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/09654310220130202?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Chris Mulhearn & Michael Franco, 2018. "If you build it will they come? The boom in purpose-built student accommodation in central Liverpool: Destudentification, studentification and the future of the city," Local Economy, London South Bank University, vol. 33(5), pages 477-495, August.
    2. Harvey Armstrong & Benito Giordano & Calum Macleod, 2015. "The durability of European Regional Development Fund partnership and governance structures: a case study of the Scottish Highlands and Islands," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 33(6), pages 1566-1584, December.
    3. Peter North, 2017. "Local economies of Brexit," Local Economy, London South Bank University, vol. 32(3), pages 204-218, May.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:eurpls:v:10:y:2002:i:4:p:495-517. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/CEPS20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.