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Proof of Evidence Aylesbury Estate Compulsory Purchase Order (2014) APP/NPCU/CPO/A5840/74092RD London Borough of Southwark Public Inquiry January 2018 Dr Michael E Leary-Owhin 1 2 3 PG Dip TP, MSc, MA (Lond), PhD (Lond), MRTPI, FHEA, FRSA 1 © Michael Leary-Owhin 2 Please note that in 2014 I changed my name from Leary to Leary-Owhin 3 Cover image, Chiltern House at Dusk © Michael Leary-Owhin 2 Contents List of Appendices 1 Introduction 2 Scope of Evidence 3 Preamble 4 Proposals for the Compulsory Purchase Order Land 5 Representing the Aylesbury Estate 6 Mapping Deprivation in Southwark 7 Urban Regeneration: definition and challenges 8 Gentrification: a derogatory term 9 The Community Conundrum 10 Regeneration Policy 11 Mixed Communities-based Regeneration 12 Underpinnings and Critiques of Mixed Communities Policy 13 Mixed Communities Policy 14 Evaluation of the First Development Site Proposals 15 Regeneration Benefits 16 Conclusions and Key Issues 17 Statement of truth and declaration 3 List of Appendices MLO 1 Conceptualising Public and Quasi-public space MLO 2 Residents’ Representations of the Aylesbury Estate MLO 3 Lefebvre’s S patial Triad: explication and interpretation MLO 4 IMD 2015 Scores for the Aylesbury Estate MLO 5 A Gentrification Balance Sheet MLO 6 A View on Gentrification and the Impact of Churn MLO 7 Relevant Estate Regeneration Case Studies MLO 8 Rehousing the Aylesbury MLO 9 Views of Estate Residents who have been Rehoused MLO 10 Mixed Communities Regeneration (Policy Extracts) 4 1 Introduction Qualifications, experience and relevant publications 1.1 My name is Michael Leary-Owhin. I live in Lambeth. I first visited the Aylesbury Estate (the Estate) when I came to live in London in 1992, since then I visited family and friends on the Estate many times in the 1990s. I have visited the Estate recently for site visits with our postgraduate planning students and I have visited the Estate several times in connection with this Public Inquiry. 1.2 I am a member of the Royal Town Planning Institute (since 1988) and have the following relevant qualifications: 1. Postgraduate Diploma Town Planning (1985) 2. MSc Urban Planning (1985) 3. MA Culture Globalisation and the City (2003) 4. PhD Urban Regeneration and Public Space (2011) 1.3 I have 30 years’ experience in planning and urban regeneration. I am a Senior Lecturer at London South Bank University (since 1992). Before that I was a Principal Planning Officer, South Oxfordshire District Council (1988 – 92). I have given expert witness evidence at over ten planning public inquiries. Over the years I have taught planning and regeneration at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. I have carried out relevant research, published books and academic journal articles, presented papers at major international conferences and devised and delivered relevant Continuing Professional Development training for practitioners, including giving evidence at public inquiries. 1.4 I have over the years worked as a planning consultant for the public and private sectors and been awarded research grants and commissions by the public and private sectors. Recently, I was interviewed by The Guardian newspaper and Global TV News Canada regarding urban regeneration and public space. I sit on the editorial board (since 2012) of the international peer reviewed journal Urban, Planning and Transport Research (Routledge). In addition I am peer reviewer in the fields of urban planning and regeneration research for academic publishers: 5 Policy Press, Bristol (book proposals) Peer reviewed journals Urban, Planning and Transport Research Urban Planning Local Economy Space and Culture Postcolonial Text 1.5 Relevant recent publications and conferences - Leary-Owhin, M. E. and McCarthy, J. P. (eds) (forthcoming 2018) The Routledge Handbook of Henri Lefebvre, the City and Urban Society , Routledge - Special Issue Editor for the international peer reviewed journal Urban Planning, Issue entitled “ Urban Planning and the Spatial Ideas of Henri Lefebvre ” . (forthcoming 2018) - Leary-Owhin, M.E. (2016) Exploring the production of urban space: Differential space in three post-industrial cities , Policy Press - Leary, M. E. and McCarthy, J. P. (eds) (2013) The Routledge Companion to Urban Regeneration , Routledge - Leary- Owhin M. E. (2017) “Urban Abandonment and Quasi -public Space: a new Lefebvrian approach” paper presented at AESOP 2017 Spaces of Dialogue for places of Dignity, Lisbon, 11-14 July - Leary-Owhin M. E. (2017) Convenor, Session 24 “ The Right to The City: urban and global justice ” , RC21 Conference, Rethinking Urban Global Justice: An international academic conference for critical urban studies , Leeds University, 11-13 September 2 Scope of evidence
