Name dropping

Has the C word had its day? Regen.net reports that the government has decided to retitle the brand-new Communities England. It seems that until a new name can be pulled out of some onsite hard-hat, it is being described as the 'new homes agency.'

Partly this is because Gordon Brown has swept in a new and overdue urgency to the housing sector. But I wonder if someone has also finally realised that you can't go round calling everything 'community' in social policy and expect magic to follow.

In the backyard of this is the question of the joining up of policy and what happens to the regeneration and planning parts of the equation: we were told that Communities England would 'join up the delivery of housing and regeneration'.

Previously: Enter Communities England.