Views of high rise flats in the Highfields area of Leicester and the entrance to the Highfields Youth and Community Centre. Series of newspaper articles about a million pound regeneration project for the area proposed by Kenneth Clarke MP. Tracking shot driving past buildings and flats in Highfields that are in poor condition. Further views of the estate including a children's playground (and a gap in the film where library pictures of the October 1985 riots were inserted). Kaye Adams interview with Bob Fenley who is leading the government funded taskforce for Highfields. Shots of Fenley visiting an industrial laundry to discuss employment plans. Views of people on the street and shopping from a market in Highfields. Interviews with local people who are critical about the project and point out that the area has lost much money through local rate capping so this is not new money and that central government does not know the local reality. Exterior shots of terraced houses that are being renovated.
Views of buildings in Handsworth that were fire damaged in the September 1985 riots. Shop owners had to claim for compensation under the outdated Riot Damages Act of 1886 and the demise of West Midlands County Council has seen a further delay in the payments. Philip Tibenham interviews two men about the lack of money and with a councillor from Birmingham City Council who is not optimistic that the payments will be forthcoming soon.
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