With a career spent largely in housing and regeneration in Manchester, as well as recently at the Homes and Communities Agency, Eamonn Boylan is well placed in his new job as neighbouring Stockport MBC chief executive, to help its own regeneration, he tells Michael Burton

Few visitors to Manchester fail to be impressed by the hugely-ambitious regeneration which has taken place in the city over the past two decades, or at the leadership the city council has taken in helping deliver it.