CPR Regeneration was an Urban Regeneration Company (URC) set up to help redevelop

Camborne Camborne ( kw, Kammbronn) is a town in Cornwall, England. The population at the 2011 Census was 20,845. The northern edge of the parish includes a section of the South West Coast Path, Hell's Mouth and Deadman's Cove. Camborne was formerl ...

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and

Redruth Redruth ( , kw, Resrudh) is a town and civil parishes in Cornwall, civil parish in Cornwall, England. The population of Redruth was 14,018 at the 2011 census. In the same year the population of the Camborne-Redruth urban area, which also inc ...

Cornwall Cornwall (; kw, Kernow ) is a historic county and ceremonial county in South West England. It is recognised as one of the Celtic nations, and is the homeland of the Cornish people. Cornwall is bordered to the north and west by the Atlantic ...

, England, UK. From 2002 to 2012 it worked with private and public sector organisations and undertook a range of physical and business-related work that sought to increase the quality of the

built environment The term built environment refers to human-made conditions and is often used in architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, public health, sociology, and anthropology, among others. These curated spaces provide the setting for human ac ...

, assist in supporting existing businesses and secure further employment opportunities for the area. Notable works included: the development of the Pool Innovation Centre and numerous local infrastructure schemes to enable later development. The company was one of 19 URCs that existed in the UK in the early noughties, each designed to address problems in areas of severe

industrial decline Deindustrialization is a process of social and economic change caused by the removal or reduction of industrial capacity or activity in a country or region, especially of heavy industry or manufacturing industry. There are different interpre ...

or with structural problems that prejudiced the ability of an 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 projects. The Camborne, Pool and Redruth area contains a significant portion of the county's industrial activity. The area had suffered from the decline of

copper Copper is a chemical element with the symbol Cu (from la, cuprum) and atomic number 29. It is a soft, malleable, and ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity. A freshly exposed surface of pure copper has a pinkis ...

and

tin Tin is a chemical element with the symbol Sn (from la, stannum) and atomic number 50. Tin is a silvery-coloured metal. Tin is soft enough to be cut with little force and a bar of tin can be bent by hand with little effort. When bent, t ...

mining (and related industries) and has struggled to recover. The setting up of a URC was significant for the area, since it recognised of the needs of a largely urban and industrial area within the bounds of Cornwall, and of the contribution these towns make to the Cornish economy.

External links

CPR Regeneration website
* ''Cornwall "down under"'' by L. J. Bullen
Pool Centre Starts Work
Organisations based in Cornwall Camborne Redruth Urban Regeneration Companies {{Cornwall-org-stub