Can anyone tell me anything about the changing government approaches to urban regeneration?

Question

Preferably in the last 40 or so years, but anything would be great. Thanks.

Answer 1

Well, look around you at the ages of buildings. This will tell you all you need to know. The 60s high rise tenamnets are now being replaced by housing estates. Victorian houses becoming flats. Brown field sites are increasingly given over to development, as are green field sites in increasing numbers. Google John Prescott and urban regeneration / development. As an interesting aside, google Ruth Kelly and the same thing.

Answer 2

Since the sixties although subsequent governments, have tried to adhere to the green belt ruling, they have found it increasingly difficult to do. More and more housing is required every year, and little by little the green belt areas have been encroached upon, countryside meadow and park lands have been allowed to be sold for housing.Public outcry has forced them to consider using brownfield sites when ever possible. However these are often not in areas where people wish to live and are often far from places of work. The present government makes a lot of noise in this direction; but continues to allow greenfield sites to be built on. Soon we shall have a country full of concrete, with hardly any trees and grasslands and woods.Our great grand-children could find themselves living in a concrete jungle.