Middlesbrough
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- Created on: 14-05-21 11:30
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- Middlesbrough
- Causes of the decline
- Struggled with deindustrialisation since the 1980s
- 2008 global recession
- Many small scale businesses and services had to close as large chain stores closed down due to reductions in the number of visitors
- SSI Steelworks in Redcar closed in 2015
- Issues caused by the decline
- Local unemployme-nt rate is at 13% which is almost 2x the national average
- In 30% of the town's working age households there is noone in paid employment
- Few have the money to move house or change jobs
- 10% of Middlesbrou-gh's wards were in the bottom 1% of deprived areas in England
- Average house prices in some areas dropped to £57,000 in 2015
- Whole streets of houses are boarded up
- High levels of anti-social behaviour
- There is a problem with fly-tipping which creates health and safety problems
- Half of secondary school pupils attend schools that 'require improvement' according to Ofsted in 2014
- Lowered motivation for academic achievement
- The council's regeneration team needs private investment to stop the spiral of decline
- Causes of the decline
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