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
    • 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
    • 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
      • 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

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