I want to offer up an anecdote.
A friend of mine has an apartment in Manchester, an Urban Splash converted mill. Over the road, a dual carriageway, are tower bocks; council flats. One summer evening a group of teenage girls were standing on the corner of his apartment block, talking in Mancunian speak – they were from the flats across the way. He was sat on his balcony and heard a neighbour shout down to them..
“Oy, you lot, clear off”
One of the young girls answered back
“We have a Right to be here, We Live Here.”

Regeneration schemes bring together different people from different backgrounds, and these different folks, occupying the same common space need to learn how to live as neighbours. Regeneration schemes don’t create a cohesive society – it’s people that do that – if they care to.
And wildlife has no voice. It gets ‘taken out” unless people speak out for it. And rats thrive where there is food; human waste, our kitchen scraps and discarded fast food bits. That’s why outside the fast food chains of the retail parks along Edge Lane I saw many a rattrap. Liverpool, like any other city will be teeming with rats and carrion birds. Shiny buildings and luxury apartments wont ‘out’ them.
And in the wastelands – the Brownfields were people don’t tread, there will be more songbirds.