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Sticking to their guns
The Government has shown that it has the courage of its convictions and stuck to their guns on regeneration and localism. Grant Shapps has responded to the Select Committee’s report and reissued a revised and updated toolkit. As he says in the press release: We can’t go back to the top-down, centralised system of [...]
Relentless optimists push forward
Regeneration has always been a task for the relentless optimist. UK Regeneration is gearing up for the next major push forward. Action is needed on a broad front, especially after the disappointment of the Select Committee Report. Tackling the Government Whatever we think of the Select Committee’s report the Government will still have to make [...]
Angels on the heads of pins
I suppose it had to happen. At the Select Committee hearings on their Inquiry into Regeneration the conversation turned to trying to define regeneration. Does this matter? Don’t we all know what we mean after so long? There is something of a consensus around a broad definition of regeneration amongst recent practitioners. What matters is [...]
Not as quiet as it seems
It may look as though things have been a little quiet on the UKR front. On the contrary we have been busy, busy, busy and not managed to find time to keep you up to date on what has been going on. Here are some of the highlights; more will follow. MIPIM continues to generate [...]
A call to action
At last we have a ministerial statement about regeneration – the shortest in 30 years but none the worse for that. Grant Shapps and Andrew Stunnell were in Salford today and have been explaining how the Coalition’s policies create a framework for action. Jackie Sadek, our Chief Executive at UK Regeneration, has welcomed the stateement: [...]
