2.5.2. Urban Policies: Hulme City Challenge

Question 1

Location:

Answer 1

City of Manchester, north west of the UK, near Liverpool and Blackpool

Question 2

What is the Hulme City Challenge?

Answer 2

• In 1991, a joint venture between between Manchester City Council and AMEC called Hulme City Challenge lead design consultants to create a new concept for the regeneration of Hulme, which was part funded by the City Challenge initiative

Question 3

Why did Hulme need the City Challenge?

Answer 3

• Hulme went into decline as they built flats with poor insulation and expensive heating
• Therefore, it was too expensive for low income residents to live there so they had to move out.
• The housing act meant everyone had the right to claim benefits and live in council housing so the area became dominated by social housing
• Rapidly increasing rates of drug addiction and crime- the council lost control which resulted in a black market
• This created poor communities and slums - needed regeneration

Question 4

What did the scheme achieve/ do?

Answer 4

• 3000 new homes built with sufficient links to public transport -> allows for reestablishment
• Government gave funding to demolish crescent flats
• Local encouraged to help design the housing scheme -> appealing to all involved
• 40,000 houses improved

Question 5

What were the failures of the scheme?

Answer 5

• Hulme is still relatively poor with 47.5% of the population still living in social housing
• Unemployment is still high