Challenges facing Bristol
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- Created by: emily_w
- Created on: 26-04-14 15:04
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- Challenges facing Bristol
- Housing
- Challenges
- 500+ 3/4 bed houses owned by couples. reluctant to move out
- South West England has fastest growing council housing waiting lists
- in past year, 1 house built for every 44 people on list
- mot expensive place is CBD--less land
- 0.26 acres sell for £695,000
- Solutions
- encourage community to get involved in housing developments
- More housing will help economy, construction jobs
- St Pauls Housing Project--provide first homes to migrants
- Bristol has more than 170 housing support services
- Challenges
- Ethnic segregation
- Challenges
- 16% Bristol population are black
- conflict between racial/ethnic groups
- St Pauls riots in 1980s, 130 arrested
- Lawrence Hill--highest number of Somalis outside London
- St Pauls and Eastons are most segregated areas
- Solutions
- Cheap housing in places other than St Pauls
- St Pauls--non drinking zones, crackdown on street drinking to decrease violence
- Challenges
- Traffic
- Challenges
- air pollution from engines idling in traffic jams
- CO2 build up on side of buildings, makes them look dirty
- rush hour--6am-8am and 5pm-9pm
- Solutions
- 2009--bus lanes to encourage public transport
- fine of £60 if you drive in a bus lane
- Challenges
- Changes to Bristol CBD
- flats built where there used to be harbour front, warehouses, industrial sites and factories
- Cabot Circus in CBD
- £5 million, 10 year program for revamping docks, used to be used for ship building
- M Shed--used to be warehouse, now museum of Bristol history
- Housing
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