Regenerating city brownfield sites, developing on the countryside.
The 10-year reign of Tony Blair has been a contradictory one, full of failures and successes, which have ultimately created a catalogue of change.
Hundreds of new laws have been introduced, a target-driven culture has emerged and the private sector is creeping into all areas of life.
Whatever people's view of Blair may be, it is undeniable that the country has undergone massive development; and education, the NHS and law and order have been transformed, for better or worse.

EDUCATION
The Surestart generation are yet to make their mark on the world, but time will tell if the Government initiative to support children at the earliest stage – particularly those who are disadvantaged – has been a success.
The New Labour slogan 'education, education, education' has been backed up by record investment, with funding per pupil increased by 48 per cent.
Teachers' salaries have increased and they are now paid to go through training in a bid to make the profession more desirable.
But there has been much controversy over the creation of specialist schools and academies and constructing new schools through Private Finance Initiative (PFI) agreements.
In Northampton, Caroline Chisholm School in Wootton Fields is a business and enterprise special school built under a PFI contract. Since it opened in 2004 the school has received an Ofsted inspection rated 'Good' and there has been competition for places from parents wanting to get their children in.
The former Lings Upper School, which was recognised as being in a deprived area, was one of the first Government academies and was transformed into Northampton Academy with sponsorship from the United Learning Trust.
Earlier this year it received a 'Satisfactory' Ofsted report, but has been criticised for taking a step into privatisation.
Gordon White, Northamptonshire representative of the National Union of Teachers, said: "Blair has continued with the Tory policies and expanded them. He is affected by his ideology that selective is best.
"We will have to wait to see what benefits taking children into an academy does. But why not put the resources into that school, why does it have to be under the label of an academy?"
Testing is another moot point, with parents and teachers worried that the Government is putting children under too much pressure.
Mr White said: "The Government has been slow to recognise that children are being tested at younger and younger ages. Schools have to perform all the time.
"Standards have improved, but at the expense of teachers and their health and stress levels. The turnover of young teachers is high and a lot do not stay in the profession."
One of the most opposed policies of Blair's Government has been the introduction of university fees, which appears to contradict their aim to get 50 per cent of pupils into higher education.
Although many sixth formers now receive payment for attending college, they will have to shell out thousands if they want to go on to university, increasing the nation's debt.

NHS
Blair's biggest claim is to have dramatically reduced waiting list times for routine operations and cut waits in accident and emergency.
Ten years ago it was not unusual to wait more than two years for a hip operation, but the current waiting list at Northampton General Hospital (NGH) is around five months.
The hospital is also on track to meet the 18-week target from referral to treatment by March next year, to eradicate the problem of hidden-diagnosis waiting lists.
But some have criticised the target-driven system and claim it is only succeeding at the price of patient service.
Ron Mendel, Northampton member of Keep the NHS Public, agreed Blair had increased the number of nurses, but with the population growth it was still not enough to meet the demand.
He added: "All these targets can be massaged by changing the rules. But really the question is what is the target?
"There is a notion that we can quantify everything but what about the quality of heath care, how can you measure that? I think targets are a red herring."
Another controversial issue is the move towards privatisation. NGH now has Foundation Status, which gives it more financial independence from Government, and the new community hospital in Daventry is being funded by PFI, which means it is owned by a private company, the compromise for having state-of-the-art facilities.
Mr Mendel commented: "PFIs are increasing the burden on the taxpayers and local authorities and have a 20 to 40-year tie in."
Not all moves to privatisation have been successful. The Birkdale Clinic in Daventry was used to help cut waiting lists in Northampton and south Northamptonshire for routine operations, particularly cataracts.
It was a flagship independent clinic used by the Government to promote the use of the independent sector. But five months after taking on NHS work its contract was terminated after health chiefs discovered it had been operating illegally.
Also under public scrutiny is the crippling NHS debt which has given rise to ward closures and redundancies, and questions over whether money is going into the right places.
Record investment has been pushed into the NHS but much of this has been at the top level to implement change and to boost consultant and GP salaries.
Mr Mendel said: "The Government has been running water but not plugging the basin. Where is the money going?
"At the university there are student nurses and physiotherapists who won't have positions when they leave.
"Why is this when we are one of the fastest-growing counties in the country?"
Other problems for the New Labour Government have been the rise in superbugs MRSA and C difficile.
This has knocked public confidence in the health service despite improvements in other areas.

LAW AND ORDER
During the past decade Labour has introduced 3,000 new criminal offences and created vocabulary such as ASBO (anti-social behaviour order), CASPAR (crime and anti-social behaviour partnership) and hoodie, in turn creating a culture paranoid about young people hanging around together in groups.
Many of the new laws, which have been criticised for creating a 'nanny state', have been introduced to move, remove or incarcerate young people or their parents for various acts deemed as anti-social.
Parents are being imprisoned when their children play truant from school; if two or more people are in a public place they can be dispersed by the police; and revellers can be fined for being drunk in the street.
At a local level there has been the introduction of Police Community Support Officers, deemed as cheap policing by some and community saviours by others. These work closely with neighbourhood wardens but have few powers to enforce the thousands of new laws.
Thorplands resident Jim O'Rourke, who received a Respect award from Tony Blair for his work in tackling crime in the community, feels Blair's law and order initiatives have been a mixed bag.
He said: "The neighbourhood wardens and community support officers have worked very well.
"A dogmatic approach is probably where they have been going wrong but with PCSOs they are on the right track. There are not faceless bureaucracy but there needs to be more.
"Where I think they have been less successful is all the laws they have brought out which actually don't work and don't have the impact they were intended to. There is no enforcement and they are unworkable.
"ASBOs don't work on the disinhibited, for example people who take drugs or alcohol.
"They only work with people who have never been in trouble before. The Government thought it would be a cure-all for social ills."
But despite all the laws to tackle anti-social behaviour there is still some debate over whether it is on the increase or people are becoming more intolerant.
Mr O'Rourke believes Blair's emphasis on anti-social behaviour may have fuelled paranoia among the public.
"Perceptions have changed about what is anti-social behaviour. Many things described as anti-social behaviour are not; they are just children making noise. But when there are adults driving motorbikes on the pavements that is unreasonable.
"But dispersing groups in the street just because they are there is probably a bit of an over-reaction.
"There are not the spaces for children to play in. They have shrunk over the last 20 years to a fifth of what there used to be."

DEVELOPMENT
Northamptonshire has seen huge growth in the past decade and is set to increase its population by 50 per cent to 300,000 in the next 15 years.
Much of this expansion has been due to Labour's open immigration policy which has led to an influx of Africans and Eastern Europeans in the county's towns. Accessibility to the capital via the M1 and train links has also developed the county as a commuter belt.
Northampton is believed to have one of the largest increases in Eastern European immigrants in the country outside London. The town is also growing geographically with the development of thousands of homes as part of the Government's housing programme.
The West Northamptonshire Development Corporation (WNDC) has been set up to oversee this under the Government's Urban Development Corporation.
Adam Reid spokesman for the WNDC explained where the investment was going: "Over £29m in growth area funding will come into west Northamptonshire in the two years from March 2006, including £10.8m to support brownfield land redevelopment and regeneration at Sixfields and Ransome Road in Northampton, £6.7m to support the regeneration of Daventry and £1.4m for cultural projects in Northampton, including funding for the redevelopment of the Royal and Derngate Theatres.
"This means not just additional money now to regenerate town centres and support the growth of the area, but an urban development corporation making the case at Whitehall and Westminster for long-term increases in public sector investment for west Northamptonshire."