Urban Regeneration
Property Led Regeneration and Partnership Schemes
Refers to AQA A2 Geography (World Cities)
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- Urban Regeneration
- Property-Led Regeneration
- Urban Developement Corporations (UDCs)
- Set up in 1980s/ 1990s and given planning approval powers over local authorities
- Use of Public Money to attract private investment.
- London Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC) Case Study
- Problems
- Critism: Locals often have no say in developements
- Hi-Tech Jobs not suitable for East End Dock Workers.
- 'Yuppie' Newcomers pushing house prices out of reach of local residents.
- Resentment about a loss of a tight-knit community.
- Physical Regeneration
- 160 000 trees planted
- 17 new conservation areas
- Thames Barrier Park
- Social Regeneration
- 8000 Local Authority Homes Refurbished
- 120000 new jobs created. Unemployment fell from 14.2% to 7.4%
- Economic Regeneration
- Building of London City Airport
- Property Developers Olympia and York responsible for office block building and FLAGSHIP Canary Wharf
- Attracted the Telegraph newspaper.
- Connection of West End with City Centre by Dockland's Light Railway.
- Problems
- Urban Developement Corporations (UDCs)
- Partnership Schemes
- City Challenge Partnership
- Background
- System of competative bidding by local authroities to develop imaginative plans.
- Involves Private Sector and Local Community to gain funding.
- By 1993, 30 City Challenge Partnerships established.
- Hulme
- Included The Guinness Trust, Belway Homes and Manchester City Council
- £37.5 million cost
- 1960s deck access housing demolished due to crime and drug abuse in alleyways.
- Replaced with two story-homes and low rise flats with courtyards.
- Community Centre to improve community spirit
- Background
- Prestige Project Developments
- Waterfront Developents e.g. Cardiff Bay and St. Stephens, Hull.
- 'Flagship Projects' - Eye Catching Developments to Attract Further Development in the area.
- Sustainable Communities
- Background
- Initiated by Labour Government in early 2000s.
- Designed where people will want to live, now and in the future, whilst sensitive to the environment
- Greenwich Millennium Village
- English Partnership had overall responsibility and invested £200 million
- Modern Housing with 'Green Credentials' such as timber cladding.
- Primary school - maximise daylight to reduce energy consumption
- Planned to expand until 2015
- 1095 homes by 2008
- Problrms - infrequent 521 bus services and cut of by older dwellings by flyover
- Background
- City Challenge Partnership
- Property-Led Regeneration
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