Regeneration EQ4 - Regeneration success/stakeholders

Question 1

What is legacy?

Answer 1

The longer term effects of a regeneration scheme

Question 2

What are the 3 economic measures of regeneration?

Answer 2

• employment
• income
• poverty

Question 3

How should the success of regeneration be measured?

Answer 3

By a range of criteria (indicators) over a short and longer time scale, both within areas and in comparison to more successful areas

Question 4

What are the measures of social progress?

Answer 4

• reductions in ineqaulities
• improvements in social measures of deprivation
• demographic changes (life expectancy, health)

Question 5

What is one mroe complex social measure used to measure regeneration?

Answer 5

The IMD’s health deprivation and disability domain

Question 6

What are 2 measures of the effectiveness of environmental improvements?

Answer 6

• reduction in pollution levels
• reduction in abandoned and derelict land

Question 7

What are the 2 basic effects of regeneration based on physical upgrades in buildings and space?

Answer 7

• forcing out locals via unintended regeneration as properties become unafforable
• direct impact on individuals’ lives

Question 8

What can a lack of success in social, economic and environmental measures lead to?

Answer 8

A spiral of decline

Question 9

What factors affect perception of success?

Answer 9

• media coverage
• age
• stance on development and change
• ethnicity
• gender
• personal experience with change
• personal perceptions and attachment

Question 10

What are stakeholder views dependent on?

Answer 10

Meaning/lived experience
The impacts of change on reality and image of a place

Question 11

Who are the different urban stakeholders?

Answer 11

• national government and planners
• local councils
• developers
• local businesses
• local communities

Question 12

What was Salford Quays like before regeneration?

Answer 12

Docks had declined and shut in 1970s
Leaving polluted waterways, derelict land and a spiral of decline

Question 13

How was Salford Quays regenerated?

Answer 13

Created MediaCity UK, housing BBC and ITV to create new job opportunities etc
Culture: Lowry and Imperial War Museum North
90 hectares of industrial land redeveloped

Question 14

SALFORD QUAYS: What did existing residents want from regeneration, and how did they measure the success of the project?

Answer 14

Want - better housing, community facilities, jobs
Measures success by - rising income, health, community spirit, improved access to services

Question 15

SALFORD QUAYS: What did national government want from regeneration, and how did they measure the success of the project?

Answer 15

Want - project to fit in with national priorities (Northern Powerhouse)
Measure success by - reduced out migration, increase regional output/GVA

Question 16

SALFORD QUAYS: What did local businesses want from regeneration, and how did they measure the success of the project?

Answer 16

Want - increased local population, especially of wealthier residents
Measure succes by - rising population, hiring rates

Question 17

SALFORD QUAYS: What did local council want from regeneration, and how did they measure the success of the project?

Answer 17

Want - improvement in external image to encourage inward investment, reduced deprivation
Measures success by - job creation, IMD, areas of land brought back into usage

Question 18

SALFORD QUAYS: What did property developers want from regeneration, and how did they measure the success of the project?

Answer 18

Want - profit, good image to drive sales
Measures by - profit v investment ratios, increased land values

Question 19

Who are rural stakeholders?

Answer 19

• landowners
• farmers
• government’s Defra
• National Parks

Question 20

Where are hotly contested rural regions?

Answer 20

• urban-rural fringe
• greenbelts
• National Parks

Question 21

What is the history behind the North Antrim Coast?

Answer 21

The Giant’s Causeway area was designated a World Heritage site in 1986 due to it’s unique geology and striking landscape

Question 22

What were the plans for regeneration on the North Antrim Coast?

Answer 22

Plans to develop a £100 million golf resort called Bushmill Dunes

Question 23

Who were the opponents to the Bushmill golf course and what were their reasons for opposition?

Answer 23

National Trust and UNESCO
Landscape change too close to the protected coastline, in a protected ‘buffer zone’

Question 24

What were the reasons for the regeneration plan on the North Antrim Coast?

Answer 24

Tourism could help to secure Northern Ireland’s prosperity - Causeway already attracts hundreds of millions of visitors annually

Question 25

Why was the Eden Project a successful regeneration scheme?

Answer 25

The management was a partnership between public and private investors ALONGSIDE local planners

Question 26

What is the Egan Wheel?

Answer 26

An evaluative scoring system to be used as part of a survey, extended interview or focus group. It can be used to compare places