Brick Lane and Harrogate Case Studies

Question 1

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

Answer 1

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

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Harrogate: 47% Male, 53% female

Brick Lane: 54% male, 46% female

Question 3

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

Answer 3

96% White, 4% BAME

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Brick Lane: 41.5% Muslim population

Harrogate: 70% Christian, only 4% other religion

Question 5

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

Answer 5

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

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

Question 6

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

Answer 6

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

Question 7

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

Answer 7

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.

Question 8

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

Answer 8

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.

Question 9

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

Answer 9

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

Question 10

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

Answer 10

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

Question 11

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

Answer 11

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

Question 12

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

Answer 12

3000 people aged over 85 in Harrogate by 2011

Question 13

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

Answer 13

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).

Question 14

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

Answer 14

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

Question 15

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

Answer 15

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

Question 16

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

Answer 16

2015 - 2nd decile

2019 - 2nd decile

Question 17

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

Answer 17

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

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Brick Lane ranks 5304/32844 small local areas.

Question 19

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

Answer 19

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.

Question 20

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

Answer 20

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.

Question 21

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

Answer 21

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.

Question 22

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

Answer 22

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

Question 23

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

Answer 23

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.

Question 24

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

Answer 24

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.

Question 25

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

Answer 25

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.

Question 26

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

Answer 26

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.

Question 27

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

Answer 27

+: 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.

Question 28

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

Answer 28

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