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Leading regeneration in coastal communities

Great Yarmouth is one of just five ‘future places’ in England selected for a new programme to showcase and support councils with ambitious visions for shaping their areas’ futures, says Sheila Oxtoby.

Great Yarmouth is a place of complex challenges and unique opportunities – a place that requires, and is seeing, a strong place-leadership approach from the borough council to realise its significant potential for growth.

Like other coastal resorts, our borough faces a number of inter-related issues, including evolving tourism trends, low quality housing stock, pockets of deprivation, and the availability of funding.

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