Diverse Places key facts (EQ3)

Question 1

Gentrification

Answer 1

The process of improving an area to make it more middle class

Question 2

What is being done to redevelop southall

Answer 2

£7.7 million of investment for Transport
2011-14 redevelopment in the area
Southhall Big Plans: A 5 year project built 4000 new homes
“great streets programme” which revamps the fronts of buildings to improve streets aesthetic and increase local pride

Question 3

What % of the southall population is Indian?

Answer 3

55%

Question 4

Has southall been successfully redeveloped?

Answer 4

£6.8m was invested around the station to stop congestion.

The Big Plan was retweeting running clubs, food festivals and bike shops to show that the community is becoming gentrified

Complaints that families health was deteriorating due to building works. They found Benzines in the soil

Question 5

What was the unemployment rate in the Docklands 1981?

Answer 5

21%

Question 6

How much did the government invest in the docklands?

Answer 6

£2 Billion

Question 7

What did they Improve in the docklands?

Answer 7

Half the money went to improved transport, railway extended to other parts of London. 72 extra miles of road leading to the rest of the city. £159 million into new utilities

Question 8

Positive quote about the docklands

Answer 8

One person stated that looking up at the skyscrapers makes them feel as though they are “at the centre of globalisation, as the docks were before”

Question 9

Negative quote about the docklands

Answer 9

Locals felt they were being unfairly treated and that the planners of the development failed to “take the people with them”

Question 10

How much economic output in the docklands?

Answer 10

£28 Billion at a local level

Question 11

Tax in the docklands?

Answer 11

Tower Hamlets now genrates over £9.5 Billion in taxation annually

Question 12

Jobs in the docklands?

Answer 12

Canary Wharf created around 120,000 jobs and supports nearly 400,000 jobs across the UK