Critically access the importance of community involvement to community regeneration initiatives within urban rundown areas?

Almost every regeneration initiative launched today places major emphasis on the need for community involvement. There is a long history of community regeneration that stretches back to the 1960’s. Urban programmes have developed from this; the ideology behind this is the idea that the local community has a role to play in urban regeneration. However, the issue of community involvement in partnership with other associates who are concerned with the development and implementation of a regeneration strategy is a fairly prominent development in British urban policy….(short extract)