Urban Regeneration

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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.
- 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
  - 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

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