Strategies to regenerate places: examples.

Question 1

What is Retail led regeneration and give an example?

Answer 1

Retail led plans include:
- A movement from one stop shops to specialist retails
- Government invest to maintain high street jobs (2014- £1million)

Example: Swinton Town Centre, Salford.
One of the first places to receive funding from govs High Street Task Force.

Question 2

What are the advantages and disadvantages of Retail led plans?

Answer 2

+ Attracts investment
+Improves public spaces
+Job creation

• Gentrification
• Overreliance on a shifting market
• Pressure on local infrastructure such as transport.

Question 3

What is Tourism and Leisure led regeneration and give an example?

Answer 3

Tourism and Leisure led plans include:
- Attracting people to an area to stimulate economic growth through the creation of leisure attractions.

Example: Centre Parcs.
Example: Rebranding of Glasgow includes investment in tourist attractions.

Question 4

What are the advantages and disadvantages of Tourism and Leisure led plans?

Answer 4

+Job creation in service sector
+Boosts local businesses
+Cultural benefits
-Overreliance on fluctuating industry
-Gentrification- rising property value as many are attracted to move to the City.

Question 5

What is Culture led regeneration and give an example?

Answer 5

Culture led plans include:
- Enhancement of cultural and creative industries to improve the perception of an area and attract visitors

Urban Examples: Charles Dickens connection to London, Banksy in Bristol and Peaky Blinders in Birmingham.
Rural Examples: Thomas Hardy Country in Dorset, Bronte country in Haworth/West Yorkshire, Cornwall’s Eden Project.

Question 6

What are the advantages and disadvantages of Culture led plans?

Answer 6

+ Enhanced community identity and increased sense of place
+ Improved public spaces and social infrastructure due to tourists= economic boost
- Gentrification- loss of community
- Over commercialisation- loss of authenticity.
- Environmental impact (in rural areas)

Question 7

What is Public and Private Rural diversification and give an example?

Answer 7

Public and Private Rural diversification includes:
- To move beyond traditional agriculture
- Driven by government policies

Example:
Redundant farm made into festival of Glastonbury.
Projects such as glamping sites, welding workshops, equine enterprises and wildlife tourism.

Question 8

What are the advantages and disadvantages of Public and Private Rural diversification plans?

Answer 8

+financial support for landowners
+infrastructure development
+promotion for sustainable development
- Limited resources and funding ( Brexit)
- implementation challenges

Question 9

How many farms in the UK use some form of diversified activity?

Answer 9

~half of all farms in the UK

Question 10

Where are grants available for farms to be able to diversify?

Answer 10

Grants available from different NGOs/IGOs such as RDP (Defra’s Rural Development Programme) and the EUs Common Agricultural policy