The highlights, a checklist, and doing small things better

Coastal regeneration

Conventional regeneration is not working at the seaside, there are issues around regeneration and deprivation, economic growth versus well-being, and about opportunity versus need.

Coastal regeneration based on reviving and revitalising rather than destroying and replacing, should generally be the order of the day at the British seaside.

Coastal regeneration needs to be conceived in a holistic way – it is more than an economic concept - it will be successful if it stains the positive distinctiveness of the area.....

There is the need for ‘coastal’ to become as established a category as ‘rural’ for policy purposes

The challenge of minimising ‘leakage’ from the local economy and spreading the benefits of regeneration into local pockets.