The Urban Regeneration Companies

The companies are separate private legal entities. They seek to achieve a radical physical transformation of their areas through implementation of their shared vision in a way that could not be achieved through individual ad hoc decisions.

URCs are experts in their local areas, and the local authority, local employers, amenity groups and community representatives play an important part, with the regional context represented by the Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) and the national dimension by English Partnerships. They co-ordinate investment plans from both the public and the private sectors, and attract new investment through the purposeful and imaginative promotion and regeneration of their areas.

The first URC, Liverpool Vision, was established by English Partnerships together with Liverpool City Council and the North West Development Agency in early 1999, allowing it to be launched immediately after the publication of Lord Rogers' Urban Task Force Report, which enthusiastically endorsed the URC concept. A total of three URCs were set up in 1999:

Liverpool Vision
New East Manchester
Sheffield One

There are 21 URCs established in England, one in Wales and one in Northern Ireland. Additional URCs have been created in the West of Scotland. English Partnerships is a board member in:

Bradford Centre Regeneration

Central Salford

CPR Regeneration

Derby Cityscape

Gloucester Heritage

Hull Citybuild

Leicester Regeneration Company

North Northants Development Company

Opportunity Peterborough

ReBlackpool

Regenco (Sandwell)

Renaissance Southend

Sunderland arc

Tees Valley Regeneration

The New Swindon Company

Walsall Regeneration Company

West Lakes Renaissance

Wolverhampton Development Company

1st East

and also offers best practice advice to:

Ilex (Northern Ireland)

Newport Unlimited (Wales)

Although not quite a URC, Nottingham Regeneration Ltd, a public / private sector partnership, was set up in December 1998, bringing together Nottingham City Council, EMDA and a number of the city's leading private-sector organistations.

URC annual reports 2006-2007


	Bradford performance report - PDF


	Central Salford performance report - PDF


	Derby Cityscape performance report - PDF


	Gloucester Heritage performance report - PDF


	Leicester Regeneration Company performance report - PDF


	Liverpool Vision performance report - PDF


	New East Manchester performance report - PDF


	ReBlackpool performance report - PDF


	Sheffield One performance report - PDF


	Sunderland arc performance report - PDF


	West Lakes Renaissance performance report - PDF


	1st East performance report - PDF