Following Lord Michael Heseltine’s speech on the future of regeneration at a special Estates Gazette event on 26 February, experts have discussed the key to driving forward successful urban development.
Heseltine has been the architect over the past 40 years of some of the UK’s biggest regeneration schemes, and while speaking at the inaugural Estates Gazette Peter Wilson Lecture at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, on 26 February, he described the pillars of his regeneration model as leadership, co-operation and competition.
A week later, while in the midst of that most iconic of models of urban renewal, London’s Battersea Power Station, SW8, our top thinkers explored these ideas as well as added their own thoughts on the measures necessary to bring deprived areas to life.
A US-style mayor, the bedding in of Local Enterprise Partnerships, and long-term commitment that outlived electoral cycles were just some of the ideas that were floated.
Joining the round table were Battersea Power Station’s Rob Tincknell; Richard Beckingsale from Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co; policy adviser to cities minister Greg Clarke and UK Regeneration chief Jackie Sadek; Savills’ Dominic Grace; and architect Glenn Howells. The discussion was chaired by EG editor Damian Wild, and held in conjunction with Savills and Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co.
See also:
• Lord Heseltine delivers Wilson lecture
• Lord Heseltine: General Regen
