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1
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What is Brick Lane’s population? What percentage of this population is Bangladeshi? - Brick Lane/Harrogate

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Brick Lane’s population is 12,500 and around 41% is of Bangladeshi origin.

2
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What is the % of male and female population in Harrogate and Brick Lane? - Brick Lane/Harrogate

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Harrogate: 47% Male, 53% female

Brick Lane: 54% male, 46% female

3
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What are the ethnicity statistics of the Rossett Ward? - Brick Lane/Harrogate

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96% White, 4% BAME

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What is the Percentage of the population who are the most prominent religions in Brick Lane/Harrogate? What religions are these? - Brick Lane/Harrogate

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Brick Lane: 41.5% Muslim population

Harrogate: 70% Christian, only 4% other religion

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What is the prominent age in Brick Lane/Harrogate? - Brick Lane/Harrogate

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Brick Lane’s prominent age category is 20-40 year olds.

Harrogate’s prominent age category is 40-60 year olds.

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What is the population of Rossett Ward? - Brick Lane/Harrogate

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Rossett Ward’s population is approximately 6,300 people.

7
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Which ethnic groups have migrated to Brick Lane? - Brick Lane/Harrogate

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Over time, Brick Lane has seen the migration of French Huguenots, Irish Catholics, Jews and Bangladeshi Muslims.
The Brick Lane Mosque has previously served as a synagogue, and Protestant and Catholic Churches.

8
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What exogenous factor is threatening to change Brick Lane? How would this happen? - Brick Lane/Harrogate

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Brick Lane is being threatened by gentrification by private company EastendHomes, who intend to convert low-cost housing that was previously council accommodation into high cost apartements. This would force low income immigrants from Bangladeshi out of the area and damage its culture.

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What positives are there of migrants moving to Harrogate? - Brick Lane/Harrogate

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Improves Harrogate’s diversity, encourages cultural education, enriches culture, leads to the presence of ethnic shops.

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What negatives are there of migrants moving to Harrogate? - Brick Lane/Harrogate

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Increases the population significantly, puts strain on medical services, difficulty in finding affordable housing, specialist language education is often required.

11
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What impact does migration to Harrogate have on the area in terms of employment? - Brick Lane/Harrogate

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Migration to Harrogate from overseas can often lead to the filling of low-income labour (social care, farming, labour).

12
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How many people were aged over 85 in 2011 in Harrogate? - Brick Lane/Harrogate

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3000 people aged over 85 in Harrogate by 2011

13
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What are the positive impacts of an ageing population in Harrogate? - Brick Lane/Harrogate

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Means there is a constantly active retail sector during the week, childcare can be provided by grandparents, services created through activities for the elderly (U3A, over 60s dancing).

14
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What are the negative impacts of an ageing population in Harrogate? - Brick Lane/Harrogate

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Lots of land required to expand the care sector, greater strain is applied to healthcare services, more money is required to reduce this strain.

15
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What decile of deprivation was Woodfield in Harrogate in in 2019? - Brick Lane/Harrogate

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Woodfield was in the 2nd most deprived decile of small areas in 2019.

16
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What decile was the Spitalfields and Banglatown Ward in in 2015 and 2019 respectively? - Brick Lane/Harrogate

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2015 - 2nd decile

2019 - 2nd decile

17
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What was Harrogate’s rank out of 317 Local Authorities in terms of deprivation? (1 being most deprived, 317 least deprived) - Brick Lane/Harrogate

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Harrogate was ranked 281/317 local authorities in terms of deprivation.

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What is Brick Lane’s deprivation rank out of 33,000 smaller local areas? (1 being most deprived) - Brick Lane/Harrogate

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Brick Lane ranks 5304/32844 small local areas.

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What is Brick Lane’s deprivation like in terms of the area surrounding it? - Brick Lane/Harrogate

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Brick Lane is one of the most deprived areas in the country, but is also adjacent to the City of London, one of the wealthiest areas in the country.

20
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What is Harrogate’s deprivation in relation to the wider area? - Brick Lane/Harrogate

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Harrogate District is very wealthy on the whole, with it not being particularly deprived. However, it is punctuated by enclaves of deprivation, such as Woodfield in Harrogate.

21
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What example has there been of conflict in Harrogate? What groups were involved? - Brick Lane/Harrogate

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Since the early 2000s, there has been conflict over proposals to build houses in the Crimple Valley, with conflict arising between groups such as ‘Save Crimple Valley’ and the local council over the proposals.

22
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What objections were there over building houses in Crimple Valley? - Brick Lane/Harrogate

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Would damage greenfield sites, increased flood risk, impact on character of the area, damage to the environment, increased level of traffic, harmful to wildlife.

23
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How was conflict resolved over proposals to construct houses in Crimple Valley? - Brick Lane/Harrogate

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In 2019, a government advisor stated that Crimple Valley should be removed as a proposed site for construction of houses, citing the objections made by residents.

24
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How have racial tensions led to conflict in Brick Lane? What groups were involved? - Brick Lane/Harrogate

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Clashes between the national front and other far-right groups led to clashes following the migration of Bangladeshis to Brick Lane in the 70s and 80s.

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What specific example is there of racial tensions boiling over in Brick Lane? What memory is there of this? - Brick Lane/Harrogate

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Altab Ali, a Bangladeshi immigrant, was murdered by far-right activists in Brick Lane in 1978. This led to the construction of Altab Ali Park, a park in Brick Lane featuring a monument resembling one from Bangladesh.

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What example is there of gentrification creating conflict in Brick Lane? What groups is this between? - Brick Lane/Harrogate

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In recent years (2015-present) council housing has been bought and transformed into high cost apartments, pricing low income inhabitants (usually immigrants) out of the area.

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What positives and negatives are Bangladeshi residents seeing in the gentrification of Brick Lane? - Brick Lane/Harrogate

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+: Some immigrants are selling their properties for high prices and moving out into a suburban area.
-: Others upset at the dilution of culture in Brick Lane as wealthy residents move in and Bangladeshi immigrants are forced out.

28
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What protests have there been against gentrification of Brick Lane? - Brick Lane/Harrogate

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In September 2015, demonstrators led anti-gentrification protests, vandalising the Cereal Killer Cafe in protest at the actions of those initiating the gentrification.