Pete Duncan CV

Pete Duncan

	Pete is a Director of Social Regeneration Consultants (SRC). He specialises in social housing, neighbourhood renewal, urban regeneration and community engagement.
	Qualifications
	University of Newcastle upon Tyne, School of Town & Country Planning • Degree of Batchelor of Arts with Honours In Town and Country Planning

Key Skills and Experience

Significant, long-term experience of community-based regeneration.

Former national tenant participation consultant to the Housing Corporation, following time at South Tyneside Borough Council Housing Department and Banks of the Wear Community Housing Association, which he helped establish.

A former Director of North Tyneside City Challenge and a Board member of Tynedale Housing (now Milecastle Housing), the North East’s first local housing company.

Co-founder and co-ordinator of the Community Regeneration Partnership specialising in community-based economic and social development, coordinating a national programme of community planning projects.

Leadership of an extensive range of commissions on community-based regeneration issues, with a particular emphasis on housing, neighbourhood renewal, urban masterplanning and community empowerment.

Extensive links with community organisations and social housing providers at local, regional and national levels.

Pioneering approaches to community engagement in Housing Market Renewal Pathfinder areas.

Extensive experience of engaging with black and minority ethnic communities, eg in Harehills, Leeds, Manningham, Bradford, Hartlepool and Middlesborough.

Relevant Publications

Duncan, P and Thomas S
Successful Neighbourhoods - A Good Practice Guide
(2007) Chartered Institute of Housing

Duncan, P et al
Taking control in your community - a guide for housing association tenants
(2003) Confederation for Co-operative Housing and the Housing Corporation

Duncan, P. and Thomas, S
Neighbourhood Management: A Good Practice Guide
(2001) The Chartered Institute of Housing, Coventry

Duncan, P and Thomas, S
Funding the Community Sector: an evaluation of the Community Champions and Community Development Learning Funds
(2001) Department for Education and Skills (formerly DfEE), Sheffield

Duncan, P
Funding for Communities
(2000) The Housing Corporation

Duncan, P. and Thomas, S.
Neighbourhood Regeneration: Resourcing Community Involvement
(2000) Policy Press, Bristol

Duncan, P
We Can Work It Out - A Community Planning Approach to Neighbourhood Regeneration
(1999) National Housing Federation

Duncan, P
Action for Accountability - A Good Practice Guide for Social Landlords
(1997) National Housing Federation

Duncan, P
Housing and Urban Regeneration - Is the North Getting a Fair Deal?
(1995) Regional Equity Group of northern housing association

Duncan, P & Halsall, B
Don't Forget the Jobs - Housing Associations and Local Economic Development
(1995) NFHA

Duncan, P & Halsall, B
Building Homes People Want - Tenant Involvement in Housing Association Design & Development
(1994) National Federation of Housing Associations

Duncan, P
Co-operative Housing - Beyond Customer Care to Consumer Control
(1991) Institute of Housing

Relevant Projects

SRC has led on community and stakeholder engagement in 6 of the 9 Housing Market Renewal Pathfinders. Pete has been personally involved in leading the following commissions:

New Heartlands (Merseyside) - South Sefton

2 Neighbourhood Development Plans for
Klondyke and Queens/Bedford 2003-4

Advising Sefton Council on housing association involvement and appointments 2003-4

New Heartlands (Merseyside) - Inner Wirral

Inner Wirral strategy 2003;

Neighbourhood Development Frameworks 2003;

Neighbourhood Action Plan North Birkenhead and Bidston 2004/5

Gateway (Hull and East Riding)

West Hull Area Development Framework 2004;

Newington and St Andrews Neighbourhood Action Plan 2004

Elevate (East Lancashire)

Neighbourhood masterplans for 2 ADF areas - Burnley Wood/Healey Wood and Daneshouse/Stoneholme/Duke Bar, Burnley 2004-5

Tees Valley Living

Pete has been leading on community engagement with the four Teesside local authorities, preparing strategic and neighbourhood-based proposals as part of their collective bid for Housing Market Renewal status, through Tees Valley Living:

Middlesbrough

Strategic framework for 11,500 older terraced homes in town centre 2004-5

Neighbourhood Action Plan for West Lane (for West Middlesbrough Neighbourhood Trust) 2004

Neighbourhood Action Plan for Gresham (2006)

Hartlepool

Community Housing Plan for Hartlepool New Deal for Communities 2003

Redcar and Cleveland

South Bank Neighbourhood Masterplan for Redcar and Cleveland Council 2004

Stockton

Neighbourhood Masterplan for Parkfield and Mill Lane 2005, for Parkfield and Mill Lane Neighbourhood Management Pathfinder

Elsewhere, Pete has also led community engagement on neighbourhood masterplanning and Area Action Planning in Castletown and Hetton, Sunderland (2005-2006).

In Glasgow, he led on the preparation of 2 community plans for the Drumchapel and Ruchill/Possil Park neighbourhoods of Glasgow, for Glasgow Alliance (2003/4), and a Community Capacity Building Plan for Easthall Park Housing Co-operative in Easterhouse (2005).

Pete has also led for SRC on a number of important community engagement, development and evaluation projects with black and minority ethnic communities including:

Bradford

The social dimension and community engagement on a Masterplan for Manningham for Bradford City Council 2004.

Leeds

Stakeholder perception study and community development strategy for Unity Housing Association in Harehills

Hartlepool

Evaluation of Hartlepool New Deal for Communities Black and Minority Ethnic support project

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