ABSTRACT
The fourth set of ‘assets’ questions relates to the communities who live in corporation suburbia. This is partly about what residents themselves feel is possible or desirable. It is also partly about the argument that corporation suburbia could ‘look after itself’ more: that is, if the estates had a more ‘balanced’ and self-selected population, they would be not only more economically but also more socially sustainable, and less dependent on external, public-sector support. After all, ‘ordinary’ (non-council-built) suburbs do not expect to have special local provision like community centres and so on laid on, do they? Is that part of what distinguishes the estates, perhaps unnecessarily?
