• Town center enhancement schemes:
  These can include a wide range of initiatives including developing a business partnership, marketing the town center, undertaking surveys, upgrading the physical environment, targeting investment and so on. A vital and vibrant town center is the heart of an area's ability to be competitive.

• Upgrading out-of-date or abandoned industrial premises:
  Regeneration strategies are targeted at communities that have normally suffered from structural change, such as a major industry closing or a rural area in decline or a town center suffering from neglect and crime.

• Developing industrial estates, business parks or science parks:
  This type of activity is normally undertaken by the private sector, however local authorities can pave the way by establishing a demand for such a facility and encouraging an enabling environment within the local authority. Investing in servicing sites with water, electricity and sewerage is expensive, so is building speculative advance factory units (where no tenant has been identified). Because of these reasons local authorities are encouraged to seek private sector investment in this area.

• Encouraging investment into growth nodes:
  One strategy to encourage growth is to identify specific areas within a city where certain types of businesses will be encouraged to locate. A growth node may then act as the center for planned growth and employment.

• Encouraging investment into corridors:
  These are similar to nodes, but here growth is encouraged to expand from an area of promising economic activity out towards a more challenging area. By encouraging incremental investment, the aim is to develop an active growth corridor linking richer and poorer areas, reducing social and economic exclusion.

• Informal markets:
  Areas where informal economy activities agglomerate are also areas life for regeneration. In addtion to ensuring adequate health safety standards, these projects also support the poor.

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