To the Question of the Civil Nature of Legal Succession

The article is devoted to the analysis of the essence of legal succession from the standpoint of the science of civil law. The Author proposes to consider this category to be a legal relationship of a general type. Approaches to the definition of the content of the category «legal relationship» are considered, and the differences between general and specific legal relations are analyzed. The article reveals the elements of legal relationship of legal succession of general type: subjects, object, content. The question of the object of legal relations of succession is considered in the context of a more general question of the object of civil law, civil relations and civil turnover. It is established that the content of the legal relationship of succession of the general type has a certain specificity due to the difference in the legal nature of General and specific legal relations. The situations in which on the basis of legal relations of a general type there are specific legal relations are presented. The features of the protection of the ability for legal succession are analyzed

National Evaluation of the Healthy Communities Challenge Fund: The Healthy Towns Programme in England

Background and aims     This research reported here presents findings from an evaluation of the development and implementation of the Healthy Community Challenge Fund (otherwise known as the ‘Healthy Towns’ programme). A key aim of the research has been to inform the development of future environmental and systems‐based ‘whole town’ approaches to obesity prevention. The overall aim of the Healthy Towns programme was to pilot and stimulate novel ‘whole town’ approaches that tackle the ‘obesogenic’ environment in order to reduce obesity, with a particular focus on improving diet and increasing physical activity. Through a competitive tender process, nine towns were selected that represented urban areas across England ranging from small market towns to areas of large cities. The fund provided £30 million over the period 2008‐2011, divided amongst the nine towns. The amounts awarded ranged from £900,000 to £4.85 million. Towns were instructed to be innovative and were given freedom to develop a locally‐specific programme of interventions. This report supplements local process and impact evaluations undertaken by each town (not reported here) by taking an overall view of the programme’s development and implementation. Our evaluation therefore addressed the following research questions: 1. What kinds of interventions were delivered across the Healthy Towns programme? 2. Were environmental and infrastructural interventions equitably delivered? 3. How was the Healthy Towns programme theorised and translated into practice? 4. How was evidence used in the selection and design of interventions? 5. What are the barriers and facilitators to the implementation of a systems approach to obesity prevention

Mixed Evidence on Mixed Tenure Effects: Findings from a Systematic Review of UK Studies, 1995–2009

Mixed tenure is a key feature of UK housing and regeneration policy. Following an earlier review-of-reviews pertaining to mixed tenure effects (Bond et al., 2011), this paper presents a systematic review of the UK evidence published between 1999 and 2005. The majority of the available evidence is cross-sectional, mostly derived from modest-quality case-study research across nearly 100 sites, supplemented by a very few secondary studies using national data. Six broad domains of outcomes have been investigated across 27 studies. Some positive impacts of mixed tenure were found in the social and residential domains, though notably without impacts on social capital. The evidence for mixed tenure effects in the environmental, safety and economic domains is very mixed. In the human capital domain of health and education, the evidence is sparse. A stronger theoretical base (including the assessment of causal mechanisms) is required to guide future research on mixed tenure effects, which should be longer term and longitudinal in nature, using comparison case studies and secondary data

Residents’ Perspectives on Mixed Tenure Communities: A Qualitative Study of Social Renters and Owner Occupiers

This qualitative study of residents explores owners' and social renters' perceptions, views and experience of living in three mixed tenure neighbourhoods in Glasgow: Castlemilk, Drumchapel and the Gorbals. The report presents findings comparing and contrasting residents' experiences with respect to the three estates and in terms of the configuration of tenure.<p></p>   Many similarities between owners and social renters living in the thee estates were found but also some clear differences, especially between the Gorbals and the peripheral estates. Incremental regeneration as experienced in the peripheral estates appears to have been less successful than the more radical ‘purpose built' regeneration experienced in the Gorbals.<p></p>   Mixed tenure is generally perceived as positive by residents and they see many benefits of living in their neighbourhoods and appreciate the improved housing and neighbourhood environment, but they recognise that new housing and improved environments do not address many problems in these estates.<p></p&gt