Abstract: Addressing disadvantage on public housing estates has become core business for social housing authorities in Australia and internationally. Approaches to achieving this goal include tenancy management, social service, community development and physical/asset interventions. The primary focus of this paper is on large-scale redevelopment projects with a significant emphasis on the creation of ‘social mix’. While various names are given to programs and projects of this type, I will use the term ‘Estate Regeneration’ consistently throughout this paper. The purpose of this paper is twofold. Firstly, to argue that the field of Estate Regeneration lacks a coherent framework for planning, delivering and reporting on outcomes for the original inhabitants of estates and secondly, to articulate a conceptual framework that addresses this shortfall. Using social theory, I will argue that Estate Regeneration has traditionally been founded on the assumption that place based interventions automatically translate into positive outcomes for residents. In essence, the focus on ‘place’ has displaced ‘people’ at the centre of the planning equation. A person-centred framework for estate regeneration puts residents into the centre of the planning agenda, shifting the emphasis away from redevelopment as an end in itself, towards being one of a number of means of achieving people-based ends.