Recent research from the IPPR shows £15bn of publicly owned assets have been sold off since 2010 in the form of 75,000 civic spaces, libraries, leisure centres, community halls and youth spaces lost.

the thinktank Onward undertook a review of regeneration policy and practice in the UK over the last 40 years and found that only those projects that invested in both ‘soft’ and ‘hard’ infrastructure measures secured any meaningful and sustained social, economic and environmental improvements for people and place