SEE: Regeneration: 4.A11 Barking and Dagenham
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- Created on: 17-03-22 11:00
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- 4.A11B+C: Barking and Dagenham as an urban regeneration case study
- Need for regeneration
- Economic
- Ford factory closed in 2002, who employed 3,200 workers
- London's highest unemployment rate of 9.8%
- 27% of residents earnng below London living wage
- Social
- Legacy of deprivation
- 2.6 overall IMD, is very deprived
- High crime rates
- High levels of health deprivation
- Economic
- Regeneration projects
- Barking Town Centre has been transformed into a residential and commerical centre (400 homes)
- Gascoigne Estate, the borough's most deprived estate will provide 1,500 new homes by 2024
- Will also have schools, community centre, outdoor spaces
- At Barking Riverside (the former power station) there will be a new neighbourhood, with 11,000 new homes
- There will also be outdoor spaces, health centres, schools
- Will create 6,000 jobs
- Dagenham Dock is now a sustainable business area, transformed from derelict land
- A plastic bottle recycling company recycles 10% of UK's plastic bottles!
- Success of regeneration. OJ: Environmentally successful, but still a long way to go socially and economically
- Social
- Life expectancy on average still 2 years less than rest of London
- It is still in 30% most deprived neighbourhoods in the country, although this is an improvement
- Economic
- Median income is £500, which is higher than UK average but less than average for London
- Majority of job category in skilled trade (21.1%) but 13.3% are professional, this is an improvement
- Environmental
- V. successful, old docklands transformed to business parks and outdoor spaces have been created
- Social
- Need for regeneration
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