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How can economic success of a regeneration schemes be measured

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  • Economic successes of regeneration schemes can be measured using income, poverty and employment data
  • These statistics may then be used within the area to compare or used to compare to other more successful areas
  • It can come from census data, neighbourhood statistics and historical or current data
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What are the positives of using economic measures to evaluate the success of regeneration

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  • Economic measures may point to successes for certain groups that then point to more general successes
  • Economic measures are clear and quantifiable
  • The data is often easily accessible
  • Economic data can show short and long term changes
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What are the cons of looking at economic measures

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  • Economic measures may only affect the success of a certain group I.e inequality
  • Economic success may actually benefit people outside the area as opposed to in it
  • Long term success depends on other non-economic factors
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What is social progress

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Social progress is how an individual/ community has improved their status in society over time

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How can social progress be measured

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Measures - reduction in inequality, deprivation,demographic changes e.g life expectancy

Collected via : interviews,newspapers, IMD and comparisons between an area/ within an area

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What are the pros of these measures

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  • The IMDs are easily comparable and different social groups are identifiable
  • The IMD allows checking of the effects of regeneration on different demographics
  • The IMD is also good for targeted regeneration and evaluating overall affect on people
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What are the cons of measuring social progress

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  • social progress is less easily quantifiable

- There is also a lack of link between data and reason for change

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What does environmental success measure

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-Environmental success evaluates the improvement in the living environment of a place

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How can environmental success be measured

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Environmental success can be measured looking at

  • Reduction in pollution
  • Reduction in abandoned/ derelict buildings

This data can be collected from - Photos, pollution indicators and living environment deprivation (an IMD measure)

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What are the pros of measuring environmental success in this way

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  • These measures present qualitative data

- They can refer to a range of environments when assessing (local, global,indoor, outdoor)

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What are the negatives of measuring environmental successes of regeneration in this way

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  • Photo evidence can be interpreted differently and so is subjective
  • Pollution levels may vary on times of collection of data so longitudinal studies must be adapted
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What was the need for regeneration in Barking and Dagenham

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-Dagenham and Barking experienced a spiral of decline after deindustrialisation such as the closure of the ford factory in 2002, cutting 36,800 jobs

Many regeneration projects have been initiated here as a result

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How can economic measures be used to measure the need for regeneration in Dagenham

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  • In Barking and Dagenham LSOA income is in the 2.5th lowest decile
  • In Barking and Dagenham IMD is also in the 2.6th lowest decile

-Much of the area has 8.9%-14.7% of households that are deprived, especially in the town centre
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  • In 2015 Dagenham had 27% of residents earning below the London living wage
  • In 2015 also it was the ninth most deprived local authority in England
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How have social measures being improved in Barking and Dagenham to facilitate social progress

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  • Dagenham dock has been regenerated from an industrial site to a plastic bottle recycling plant
  • Gascoigne estate has a project to create 1500 new homes, along with schools, leisure and retail
  • Barking riverside is Londons largest regeneration project, with 7 new residential neighbourhoods,5 new schools and 6000 new jobs by 2020
  • Beam park now has 40,000m2 of workplaces , a hotel and a pub
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What are the targets to improve environmental measures in Barking and Dagenham

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  • There are plans to seek improvements to the public transport network
    • The council is lobbying for new rail infrastructure and services
      • Priorities include a rail link to Barking riverside, a direct rail link between Stratford and Barking to improve connectivity to the regional hub
    • Enhancing the capacity of Barking station to reduce overcrowding

-The council also aim to improve footpaths,signage and directions to encourage the ‘just walk scheme

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How does Barking and Dagenham aim to improve environmental quality in reference to abandoned and derelict land

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  • Several areas within Barking and Dagenham have undergone heavily regeneration to develop on large areas of derelict land
  • This is land that remains from the industrial era when Barking docks held large amounts of land e.g creekmouth industrial site

-Aim is to reduce ‘urban prairie’ and create green spaces and commercial land ect

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How can economic success be measured in Barking and Dagenham

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  • In 2013 the median income in Barking and Dagenham was £517.40 which was higher than Newham which also experienced regeneration at £475.70
  • However it was equally lower than Tower Hamlets (contains Canary Wharf) which had a median income of £804.9