Community-Led Regeneration: A Toolkit for Residents and Planners

community-led plans, Community-Led Regeneration offers a toolkit of planning mechanisms and other strategies that residents and planners working with communities can use to resist demolition and propose community-led schemes. The case studies represent a broad overview of groups that formed as a reaction to proposed demolitions of residents' housing, and groups that formed as a way to manage residents' homes and public space better. Drawing from the case studies, the toolkit includes the use of formal planning instruments, as well as other strategies such as sustained campaigning and activism, forms of citizen-led design, and alternative proposals for the management and ownership of housing by communities themselves. Community-Led Regeneration targets a diverse audience: from planning professionals and scholars working with communities, to housing activists and residents resisting the demolition of their neighborhoods and proposing their own plans.  

Table of Contents:
Preface   Richard Leeand Michael Edwards, Just Space Acknowledgements Introduction: How to use this toolkit? Part I: Case studies Chapter 1:Walterton and Elgins Community Homes Chapter 2:West Kensington and Gibbs Green Community Homes Chapter 3:Cressingham Gardens Community Chapter 4:Greater Carpenters Neighbourhood Forum Chapter 5:Focus E15 Chapter 6:People’s Empowerment Alliance for Custom House (PEACH) Chapter 7: Alexandraand Ainsworth Estates Part II: Tools for community-led regeneration Chapter 8: Gainingresidents’ control Chapter 9: LocalismAct 2011 Chapter 10: Policiesfor community participation in regeneration Chapter 11:Using the law and challenging redevelopment through the courts, by SarahSackman Chapter 12:Informal tools Part III: Next challenges for community-led regeneration Conclusions Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Pablo Sendra is Lecturer in gg Planning and Urban Design at The Bartlett School of Planning, UCL. He combines his academic career with professional practice in urban design. He is co-founder of the urban design practice Lugadero, which has recently run a co-design process for two public spaces in Wimbledon, London. He is also co-founder of Civicwise, a network that works on civic engagement and collaborative urbanism. At UCL, he is the Director of the MSc in Urban Design and City Planning programme, the coordinator of the Civic Design CPD Course and the Deputy Leader of the Urban Design Research Group. He is co-author of Designing Disorder (2020). Daniel Fitzpatrick finished his PhD in Planning Studies at the Bartlett School of Planning, UCL, in 2017, investigating mutual housing models in London and their governance. He is currently Teaching Fellow at The Bartlett School of Planning and conducts research on formal and informal practices of estate regeneration and collective housing. He continues to tutor on planning, urban design, housing and governance issues. He has worked in India, Italy, Cuba, Chile, Nepal and London, working on projects at different scales, from international development to regeneration and within local government. He was a partner of Variant Office between 2014 and 2018.

Review :
'Described as a "toolkit for residents and planners", this is no dry theoretical survey, but a practical guide for the thousands of people currently facing uncertainty about the future of their homes... bringing activists together to share their experiences and build a collective body of knowledge that will be so important for future campaigns. Its release is timely: the coronavirus pandemic has shown just how powerful community self-organising, mutual aid and the solidarity of local support networks can be. By compiling such a broad (if London-centric) range of case studies, Sendra and Fitzpatrick have performed a vital public service, helping to ensure that any communities facing top-down regeneration in future know that they are not alone - and that it is eminently possible to hold off the bulldozers. For now, at least.' The Guardian 'Many accounts exist on the struggles of community-led regeneration, but this book has the merit to bring the key issues together in a clear form for residents wishing to preserve their homes and communities, by gaining more control over their future and urban designers assisting them.' Urban Design Group 'The toolkit is useful in describing very clearly the options and challenges for resident groups who want to contest unwanted regeneration proposals. ... One useful aspect of the toolkit is the detailed description of the legal framework and its history.' Pat Turnball, London Tenants Federation website