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A History of Broxtowe Estate
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Broxtowe Estate lies to the north west of the City of Nottingham about 3 miles from the city centre. It was built by Nottingham City Council during the depression of the 1930’s to replace some of the slums of the city and to provide work for the unemployed. Building work was suspended at the outbreak of the Second World War but immediately restarted in 1945. The original development was increased at that time and extended onto land in the Strelley area. The design of the estate is based on a series of circular roads centred around Denton Green, bisected by four main access roads. A high proportion of the houses were built with four bedrooms to house large families. The main design fault in the original development was that no provision was made for health, welfare or community facilities among the 2000 houses which were built. In 1981 the Broxtowe Development Plan to improve the area was given limited finance. The housing stock was upgraded, a community centre was built on Denton Green and the old Coal Board and municipal tip was covered over and landscaped to create Broxtowe Park. Also, around this time, the Broxtowe Forum was born. This was an attempt by a number of individuals, groups and agencies to provide a partnership framework which would enable local people to work with representatives of the professional bodies involved with the estate and to ensure that there was maximum consultation, co-operation and participation in future development. Following a period of minor public disturbance amongst some local young people in the autumn of 1992, a local councillor led the establishment of the Broxtowe Development Group to promote and facilitate local social and economic regeneration. This group was the driving force behind a bid to the first round of the Government’s Single Regeneration Budget (SRB). Unfortunately, this proved to be unsuccessful and so the plans were reviewed and redrawn and another bid submitted to SRB 2. This time the estate was given funding for a range of local projects aimed at promoting training and employment, increasing house security, setting up youth schemes and a community support network, raising educational achievement and developing local partnerships and communications. The Development Group merged with the Broxtowe Forum with the name of the latter being retained for the resulting partnership body which now brought together public, private, voluntary and community sectors on the estate. During 1996/97 a further review and restructuring of the partnership took place, resulting in the establishment of the Broxtowe Partnership Trust which now brought together public, private, voluntary and community sectors on the estate.
The Broxtowe Partnership Trust, with the help and support of its members, is working hard to regenerate the area both socially and economically. Local people are seen as being the key partners in this work. Broxtowe, in common with so many other disadvantaged communities, has a wealth of natural skills, talents and abilities amongst its people which are so often wasted because of their social and economic exclusion from society. One of the key roles of the Partnership Trust is to find ways in which the needs and aspirations of the local community can be met through multi-agency partnership working. The local infrastructure to do this now exists and we have the commitment of all our partners to bring about real change in Broxtowe. |
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