Abstract
Town centres traditionally can play a multitude of roles as the hearts of communities, however, the challenges to the vitality and viability of town centres in Japan focus on revitalizing retail activities. The purpose of this study is to contemplate residential spaces to revitalizing town centre in British regional cities, and attempts to clarify how planning controls and town centre managements can work to this. The study first reviews the role of TCM and relationship between planning and TCM, followed by the analysis of central government and ATCM policies to the town centre residential spaces. An examination of the development plans and TCM action plans in eight regional cities, shows two types of development; mixed use development and conversions including‘Living over the Shop’ and change of the use. From the process of materializing residential spaces, town centre managers can possible to identify and promote development opportunities because they work with property owners closely. Therefore, the development of genuine and effective partnership between key town centre stakeholders, the fund for development and effective planning policies was identified to materializing residential spaces.
