The British Urban Regeneration Association has announced voluntary liquidation as its Board decided it had to control its own destiny.
The organisation was set up in 1990 as a forum in which the private, public and community sectors could come together to debate regeneration issues.
Its demise was announced in a memo to members from chief executive Jackie Sadek who said no stone had been left unturned in the attempt to make its subscription membership model work for the new world.
She said BURA had achieved so much and the main-streaming of regeneration per se had been a triumph, as was the linking of physical development to social, economic and environmental considerations.
"Partnership working may be the established norm these days but it was a helluva novel approach when we started out in 1990," she said.
"So BURA may have had its day but I don't believe that regeneration is dead. Anyone who is anyone in regeneration has had an association with us at some point or another in our 20-year history."
BURA provided a range of services including BURA Connect, a network of self-employed regeneration practitioners, awards, training and conferences.
