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Introducing the event, Professor Michael Parkinson from John Moores University reflected that ‘we’ve had 10 great years of regeneration for many people and places but the landscape has changed.’ As the keynote speaker, Philip Cox from DCLG remarked that ‘regeneration is not dead, it’s just different’ and went on to explain how central Government’s devolution of regeneration policy is paying dividends. He reported that local partnerships are beginning to find new sources of funding and new ideas for reviving their areas and Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) were beginning to demonstrate their independence of government with original ideas to boost economic growth. Read More.
