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Community Gateway - Empowering Communities in Preston

A report - Empowering Communities in Preston, launched at a packed conference in Preston on 16th July 2004 - outlines the practical implementation of the Community Gateway model in Preston.

Preston's innovative approach to delivering decent homes is a great example for others to follow. Community Gateway provides a practical way of ensuring tenants are engaged with plans to improve their homes, reflecting the Governments commitment to put them at the heart of decision-making. (Keith Hill - Minister of Housing)

The Empowering Communities in Preston report outlines the practical process of implementing the Community Gateway model in Preston. It explores what the Gateway has meant to people in Preston, the practical programme that has led to the development of an initial framework for tenant democracy there, and how things have been done differently to accommodate the Community Gateway. Various background, not available in the report, can be downloaded here:

Preston Launch - The gateway opens

After over two years hard work, tenants in Preston launched the first Community Gateway Association on 7th December 2005. With 605 tenant members at the point of transfer, Preston City Council’s 6,500 homes transferred to the Preston Community Gateway Association on 28th November 2005. [Continue reading]

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The Preston Community Gateway's offer document has now been produced - this is the document on which Preston's tenants will vote in November/December for or against the transfer to the Community Gateway Association. The offer document enshrines the Community Gateway principles as well as resources to implement the commitment to their community empowerment strategy.

Preston Community Gateway's offer [PDF File, 648 Kb]

Empowering communities in Preston - An account of the development of the proposed Preston Community Gateway Association's Community Empowerment Strategy [PDF File, 465 Kb]

Initial Gateway brochure used in Preston [PDF File, 331 Kb]

Community Empowerment Strategy Scoping report [MS Word .doc File, 226 Kb]