SEE: Regeneration: 4.A2C London Docklands
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- 4.A2C: Measuring change: London Docklands
- Employment trends
- Low rent following the closure of the docks attracted hi-tech and financial firms e.g. ITV studios
- Reduction in primary/secondary jobs, huge increase in quaternary sector
- Building of Canary Wharf, London's second largest CBD
- 100,000 travel to work there everyday
- Building of Canary Wharf, London's second largest CBD
- Demographic changs
- Older people have moved out, usually retiring to the Essex coast
- Average age of Newham's population was 31 compared to UK average of 40 in 2011
- Newham is London's most ethnically diverse borough due to high levels of immigration
- Older people have moved out, usually retiring to the Essex coast
- Land-use changes
- Former warehouses transformed into luxury flats
- High rise office buildings, designated to stimulate quaternary employment, replaced docks/industry
- Due to the Right to Buy scheme, a lot of the housing has gone from the public to private sector
- Now 1/2 of the housing in East London is now in the rented private sector
- Development of infrastructure, Jubilee Line, City Airport
- Levels of deprivation
- East End is no longer one of the UK's most deprived areas, but poverty is still present
- High deprivation in some of the boroughs e.g. Tower Hamlets and Newham
- Only 16.5% of Canning Town is not deprived by any dimension
- On the other hand, 64% of Millwall is not deprived by any dimension
- Only 16.5% of Canning Town is not deprived by any dimension
- Tower Hamlets had the lowest average life expectancy in London in 2012
- IMD Factors: income, employment, health, crime, quality of living, abandoned and derelict land
- Environmentally there has been a reduction in derelict buildings due to reduction in the polluting secondary industry
- Employment trends
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