Pete Duncan

Research Associate

Pete is a Director at Social Regeneration Consultants, which he set up in 1993. He has spent nearly all his career working in the field of community-led regeneration and neighbourhood planning, especially in our more deprived areas. He was a leading figure in the development of 25 housing cooperatives across North East England in the late 1970s and 1980s. Much of his more recent work has focused on the delivery of large scale community-based regeneration programmes, neighbourhood management and most aspects of the localism agenda. In 2010 he carried out case study research for the Scottish Government to inform its Community Empowerment strategy and also worked with Sally Thomas to develop a set of practical tools for assessing and delivering community empowerment for the Local Government Association. Pete is a regular speaker at national and regional conferences and seminars where housing, neighbourhoods and community empowerment are on the agenda. He has written many national good practice guides over the years, His most recent – for the Chartered Institute of Housing and Communities and Local Government – was researched and written jointly with Sally Thomas and is succinctly titled Successful Neighbourhoods. Pete is also a Parish Councillor.