Urban regeneration Flashcards
(12 cards)
Property led regeneration
Urban development corporations
Partnerships between local and national governments and the private sector
City challenge
Schemes and strategies of the 21st century
Property led- Urban development corporations
- Set up in to 1980s and 90s to take responsibility for the physical, economic and social regeneration of selected inner city areas
- Planning approval powers above those of local authorities
- Encouraged to spend public money on the purchase of land, building and marketing
- Boards of UDCS were mainly made up of people from local business community
Problems with UDCs
- Lost huge sums of money through the compulsory purchase of land that later fell in value
- Greater powers than local authorities- democratic accountability removed (locals not involved)
London Docklands UDC case study
- 1960s- decline
- Larger vessels couldn’t access docks
- Fewer jobs because of mechanisation
- Decline of Port industries
- Poor housing- by 1981, 80% lived in poor quality high rise council flats
- 160,000 trees planted
- 17 conservation areas
- 120,000 jobs created
- Office construction. E.g flagship canary wharf
- Accessibility improved- London city airport, docklands light railway
- National indoor sports centre
London Docklands limitations
- Locals had no say
- Many of the new hi tech jobs attracted to the area weren’t suitable
- Failed to bring wealth to locals
- ‘yuppie’ residents pushed house prices beyond the reach of original residents
City challenge partnership
- New approach to funding- competitive bidding
- Local authority had to devise an imaginative project and form a partnerships in its local inner city area with the private sector and local communities
- Partnership submitted 5 year plan to central government in competition with other areas
- Adressed weaknesses of earlier regeneration- partners were better co ordinated, co operation between local authorities an private and public groups, prioritised equal value to buildings, people and property
- Areas suffered from high unemployment, poor levels of education, environmental deterioration, increasing derelict land, high crime
- compeition between areas for funding was believed to be successful because it improved the quality of proposals and encouraged new imaginative ideas
Limitations of city challenge
- Money should have been allocated according to need, not competitive advantage
- Neighbouring authorities competed against each other when they could’ve worked together
City challenge hulme
- £37.5 million investment
- Organisations involved- the guiness trust, beltway homes, manchester city council
- Appearance changed dramatically
- 600 new homes
- Crime greatly reduced
- ASDA
Schemes and strategies of the 21st century- prestige project developments
- Creation of innovative eye catching developments
e. g waterfront developments in cardiff bay
Schemes and strategies of the 21st century- sustainable communities
Places where people will want to be both now and in the future
Allow people who live in cities to have access to a home, job and reliable income
Sustainable communities - greenwich millennium village, london
built on 121 hectares of brownfield site so transformed the previous gasworks
Aims to cut primary energy use by 80% by using low energy building techniques
Britain’s first low energy sainsbury
