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