Urban Regeneration Companies and City Centres

Urban regeneration has proved to be a testing and on-going challenge for both central government and local authorities within the UK and successful solutions have proved to be elusive, at best partial rather than comprehensive and often difficult to sustain. Long-term structural economic decline, the continuing shift from a manufacturing to a service and knowledge based economy, the relentless suburbanisation of the population and the emergence of new employment locations and retail and leisure facilities on green field sites in edge of town and out of town locations and the natural ageing of the urban fabric have all contributed to decline, decay, dereliction and deprivation in many central and older parts of towns and cities throughout the UK.