NewHeartlands

Set up in 2003, NewHeartlands was one of the Government's ten Housing Market Renewal (HMR) pathfinders charged with finding new ways to tackle the problems of low demand and housing market collapse in neighbourhoods across Merseyside.

From 31^st March 2011 due to the discontinuation of Government funding, NewHeartlands will be disestablished.

There have been many achievements over the last eight years of working in communities across Liverpool, Sefton and Wirral including building nearly 3 thousand new homes and refurbishing more than 20 thousand properties.

At the centre of the programme will always be the people in the communities affected by market failure. Many people moved into new and refurbished homes and the investment has made a major difference to the look of their neighbourhoods and the quality of life of the people living there.

Housing though was only part of the story. The investment also helped create a more attractive and supportive place for residents delivering improvements to public transport, health facilities, community policing and the general environment.