Your neighbourhood. Your say. — Pride in Place in Kingstanding South-East

Pride in Place is a UK Government programme for long-term neighbourhood renewal, run by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Rather than asking places to bid for money, it gives named neighbourhoods long-term funding and support, with local people shaping how it is used.

Its stated aims are thriving places, stronger communities and giving local people more control over their area.

Kingstanding South-East is one of nine Birmingham neighbourhoods selected by the Government. Neighbourhoods were chosen using national data on deprivation and on social infrastructure — the community spaces, organisations and connections that help a neighbourhood thrive.

The programme area is the official statistical neighbourhood “Kingstanding South East” (Office for National Statistics area E02001837) — mostly B44 0 postcodes, with a few in B44 8 and B44 9. It is smaller than the Kingstanding ward and the wider area Kingstanding Together serves. The Board and the Council may refine the boundary. If you live, work or spend time nearby, your views are still welcome in the survey.

Each selected neighbourhood can receive up to £20 million over ten years. Because the programme runs for a decade, it can support quick, visible improvements as well as longer-term change — to places, and to the services and activities people rely on. No specific project has yet been decided.

Each neighbourhood has a Neighbourhood Board, led by an independent Chair. Under the Government’s rules, more than half of its members must live or work in the neighbourhood, and there must be more local people on the Board than elected representatives; the local MP and at least one ward councillor are members.

The Board’s job is to agree a ten-year vision and a Pride in Place Plan for how the money will be used — guided by what the wider community says.

• The Government sets the rules of the programme and provides the funding.
• Birmingham City Council is the accountable body: it administers the funding and supports the Board.
• The Neighbourhood Board decides the vision and the plan.
• Kingstanding Together is an independent community association. We are not the Neighbourhood Board and we do not decide how the money is spent. We run this page and the residents’ survey so that as many local people as possible can put their views on record.

The Government expects each Board to engage extensively with its community — starting early, and making a particular effort to hear from people who are less often heard — and to show evidence of that engagement when it submits its plan.

The residents’ survey is designed to produce exactly that kind of evidence: what people value, what needs fixing, where, and what they would prioritise when not everything can be done at once.