Community Village including over 300 family houses and 70 special needs Cat I and wheelchair bungalows, frail elderly project, Village Hall, Community Offices, Sports Centre and Landscaping. The Eldonian Village is regarded as one of the most successful community led urban regeneration projects in Europe. The practices involvement with the Eldonian Community dates back to 1982 when we were selected as Architects for their first housing co-operative projects. This work acted as a catalyst for community involvement on a large scale and the development of proposals for the Eldonian Village on the former Tate and Lyle factory site. WHHLP worked closely with tenants in the Burlington Street and Eldon Street tenement blocks for over three years; carrying out a design participation programme to cater for the needs and aspirations of the tenants, as a group and as individual families. We assisted them in achieving funding and in obtaining permissions to redevelop the former sugar refinery site. Eventually following a land reclamation programme, work started on site in 1987. The completed village has had an unparalleled success, rent arrears are very low, no break-ins have occurred since completion and vandalism is negligible. The village caters for all sections of the community which has effectively been transplanted from the tenement blocks to a totally new environment. Other initiatives have promoted home ownership schemes and a frail elderly project caters for the elderly who can no longer support themselves in their bungalows. Assisted by the Merseyside Development Corporation the Eldonians have developed a canal side park which includes a Village Hall, Offices and shortly a Sports Hall. All projects have been carried out with a high degree of design participation and community involvement which together with a good community based management has ensured the ongoing success of the Village. Phase I of the Village was completed in 1989 and Phase II in 1995. The result has been the transformation of an inner city neighbourhood of derelict industry and slum tenements into a new stable and secure community village.