London Docklands
- Created by: Ellie Hadley
- Created on: 14-05-13 12:35
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- London Docklands
- Aims
- Economically regenerate - attract public investment
- Physically regenerate
- Improve living conditions and communities
- Schemes
- Transport
- DLR - cost £77m and took 3 years to complete
- Airport - 3 miles from Canary Wharf. Benefit businesses and acts as a catalyst for regeneration
- Cble car - Carry 2,500 people per hour. 10 year sponsorship. 60 employees
- Boris bikes - environmentally sustainable
- Housing
- Gentrification
- More houses for private sale
- 50,000 new homes since 1981
- 8,000 improved local authority houses
- Jobs
- Canary Wharf employees living in Docklands.
- 8,400 in 2001 compared to 2,200 in 1997
- Transport
- St. Katherine's Dock
- Attractive to business people and the wealthy
- Many individual shops and cafes
- Low footfall
- Tobacco Dock
- Success? Fail.
- When imports ceased, the area became derelict.
- Competition from cheaper areas.
- Poor transport links led to poor custom when the site became a £47m shopping area
- When imports ceased, the area became derelict.
- Success? Fail.
- Aims
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