Reindustrialisation in the NE
- Created by: Lily Berman
- Created on: 07-05-13 17:36
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- Reindustrialisation in the NE
- Government offered Nissan a £100m grant, so Nissan set up a factory at Sunderland
- Northern Development Agencies set up
- The A1 road was upgraded into a motorway (A1m) to make travel to the north easier-it had been previously considered a remote place
- The Tees Barrage Scheme has turned an 11 mile stretch of the Tees into a non-tidal centre for water based leisure activities
- The Quayside along the banks of the Tyne in inner city Newcastle is undergoing a proramme of urban regeneration, being transformed from dereliction into an area of luxury hotels and appartments and high quality offices
- The broadband was updated to 80mbps-not amazing but pretty fast
- The Metro Centre, a massive shopping and leisure complex, opened in 1988
- Leading Universities
- Enterprise zones established in Hartlepool (1981) and Middlesborough (1988)
- The A1 road was upgraded into a motorway (A1m) to make travel to the north easier-it had been previously considered a remote place
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