In most instances the community, group, work culture being subjected to Gentrification as a force through redevelopment or regeneration, seem to lie in this grey zone where they are very real presence as people with lives and livelihoods connected to a place, but immediately rendered illegal or redundant through the logic of the Market.
In many instances, the Planning process will not only cynically disregard them as inevitable collateral damage but also through Community Engagement, re-frame their opinions and feedback as validation of the regeneration plans.