To hear the man who, quite literally 'wrote the book' on the subject say he'd like to see an end to regeneration comes as something of a shock. Prof Peter Roberts, co-author of Regeneration: A handbook, the must-read text for students and practitioners across the land, does however, wish the demise of regeneration for a positive reason. He has just become chair of the Leeds-based Academy for Sustainable Communities, and his aim is to skill people up to the point where they get it right in the first place. 'Regeneration is having to go in and retrofit,' he explains. And, giving the example of run-down, drug-infested, 1960s estates, he says: 'If we'd put the sustainable communities package in then, we wouldn't have to go in to regenerate them now, because they would have a sense of place, community and respect.'
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