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Power to the people: Putting community into urban regeneration
Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal,
8
(1),
86-100
(2014)
Abstract
This is a perspective on two approaches to regeneration in the same city, Gloucester in the west of England, between 2004 and 2014. A more community-based approach came from the Community Strategy team of Gloucester City Council, while a more site-based approach came from the Gloucester Heritage Urban Regeneration Company (of which the City Council was a lead partner). Sometimes the two approaches worked well together, and sometimes not so well. As both of these teams have now been dissolved, it is perhaps time to identify the lessons learned from the process. This case study illustrates two particular points: the value of genuine community-led action rather than work done on the community’s behalf, and the need for long-term attention to how community needs and aspirations can link effectively with major regeneration schemes. The text reviews a number of available techniques to these ends.
Keywords: Community; regeneration; urban; city; community development; index of deprivation
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Author's Biography
Andrew Maliphant is a freelance project management consultant with over 20 years’ experience of regeneration. Following early private sector employment Andrew took the Heritage Management postgraduate course at the Ironbridge Institute in Shropshire, England, effectively the first such course on practical regeneration. Since then he has worked on market town regeneration in Cumbria and the Forest of Dean, the regeneration of the city of Gloucester and a programme to break cycles of deprivation in housing areas in Oxfordshire, as well as policy work for the UK Government body the Countryside Agency (now Natural England). He is particularly interested in local and community approaches to regeneration, and is currently working on local determination at a parish level as well as supporting a range of social enterprise projects around the country. His Local Regeneration Handbook was published October 2017.1
