CPR Regeneration is an Urban Regeneration Company

Urban Regeneration Company

Urban Regeneration Companies are private companies in the United Kingdom that seek to achieve a radical physical transformation of their areas through masterplanning and co-ordinating financial assistance to developers from both the public and private sector....

 set up to help redevelop Camborne

Camborne

Camborne is a town and civil parish in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is at the western edge of a conurbation comprising Camborne, Pool and Redruth....

, Pool and Redruth

Redruth

Redruth is a town and civil parish traditionally in the Penwith Hundred in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It has a population of 12,352. Redruth lies approximately at the junction of the A393 and A3047 roads, on the route of the old London to Land's End trunk road , and is approximately west of...

 in Cornwall

Cornwall

Cornwall is a unitary authority and ceremonial county of England, within the United Kingdom. It is bordered to the north and west by the Celtic Sea, to the south by the English Channel, and to the east by the county of Devon, over the River Tamar. Cornwall has a population of , and covers an area of...

, UK. It works with private and public sector organisations and undertakes a range of physical and business related work that seek to increase the quality of the built environment

Built environment

The term built environment refers to the human-made surroundings that provide the setting for human activity, ranging in scale from personal shelter and buildings to neighborhoods and cities that can often include their supporting infrastructure, such as water supply or energy networks.The built...

 and assist in supporting existing businesses and securing further employment opportunities for the area.

The company is one of 19 URCS that exist in the UK, designed to address problems in areas of severe industrial decline or with structural problems that prejudice the ability of the area to be economically sustainable. URCs are not designed to be a permanent feature of the area in which they work, and are created to tackle specific work projects.

The Camborne, Pool and Redruth area contains approx 10% of the total Cornish population, and a significant portion of the county's industrial activity. The area suffered from the decline of Copper

Copper

Copper is a chemical element with the symbol Cu and atomic number 29. It is a ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity. Pure copper is soft and malleable; an exposed surface has a reddish-orange tarnish...

 and Tin

Tin

Tin is a chemical element with the symbol Sn and atomic number 50. It is a main group metal in group 14 of the periodic table. Tin shows chemical similarity to both neighboring group 14 elements, germanium and lead and has two possible oxidation states, +2 and the slightly more stable +4...

 mining (and related industries) and has struggled to recover. It parallels the position of South Yorkshire, which suffered from the decline of coal mining in the 1980s and also had the intervention of a URC, Renaissance South Yorkshire.

Again in line with normal URC practice, every project that CPR works on is undertaken with (or for) other public sector partners, such as Cornwall Council, the Homes and Communities Agency

Homes and Communities Agency

The Homes and Communities Agency is the non-departmental public body that funds new affordable housing in England. It was established by the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 as one of the successor bodies to the Housing Corporation, and became operational on 1 December 2008.-Background:On 17...

, the South West of England Regional Development Agency or the Convergence fund of the EU.

• CPR Regeneration website
• Cornwall "down under" by L. J. Bullen
• Pool Centre Starts Work