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Seaside towns and Local Enterprise PartnershipsJames Kennell & Samantha ChaperonEconomic Development Resource CentreBusiness SchoolUniversity of Greenwich
The seaside reset• Post-1974: consistent failure in
seaside regeneration• Lack of either a coordinated
strategy or municipal entrepreneurship
• Structural knowledge transfer problems
Seaside towns as peripheral places
• Peripheral places are on the margins of centres of wealth, the processes of capital accumulation and also political decision-making
(Brown & Hall, 2000)
Dependency
• Tourists• Economics• Governance
Core-Periphery Theory (CPT)
• CPT is a geographical framework that can highlight spatial disparities
• Governance• Funding• Development
Seaside Local Enterprise Partnerships
• 23 submissions• 6 accepted for next stage• Content analysis• Core-periphery theory
Seaside LEPs - Findings