Docklands London, UK

Question 1

What was LONDON DOCKLAND like as a brownfield site?

Answer 1

• Original houses were high density, small, wasn’t modern.
• Over 50% docklands were derelict, empty warehouses
• Poor transport routes so it was difficult to get too.

Question 2

What happened to the docks in 1981?

Answer 2

Docks had closed.
Over half the land was derelict.
Very few jobs

Question 3

The nineteenth century houses needed…

Answer 3

Urgently repair.

Question 4

In the nineteenth transport was…

Answer 4

Poorly developed.

Question 5

What ECONOMIC REGENERATION was there in terms of jobs?

Answer 5

• Financial and high tech firms.
• Employment and businesses had doubled between 1981 and 1996.
• Businesses increased from 1000 to 2400.
• Unemployment fallen from 14.2% to 9.5%

Question 6

Name 4 high tech firms that were attracted by low rents?

Answer 6

• Stock exchange
• Limehouse ITV Studios
• The Guardian
• Daily Telegraph

Question 7

By 1996 how much office space had been left in the PRESTIGIOUS CANARY WHARF BUSINESS COMPLEX?

Answer 7

76%

Question 8

What economic regeneration was there in the terms of TRANSPORT?

Answer 8

• Improved transport links.
• Over 35km of new road, links to the M11
• The city airport

Question 9

What did the IMPROVED transport links mean?

Answer 9

That central London can now be reached within 10 mins.

Question 10

How did The Dockland Light Railway Improve?

Answer 10

Connected to the underground system.

Carries 320,000 passengers a week over its 29km of track

Question 11

What SOCIAL regeneration was there in terms of housing?

Answer 11

• Over 19,800 new homes built.
• The improvement in home provision has increased resident population.
• Proportion of owner occupied houses increased.
• Low cost housing

Question 12

Former warehouses converted into…

Answer 12

Luxury flats.

Question 13

The improvement in home provision increased resident population from…

Answer 13

39,400 in 1981 to 76,850 in 1996.

Question 14

The proportion of owner occupied houses increased from…

Answer 14

5-40%

Question 15

What council concentrated on providing low cost housing?

Answer 15

Newsham

Question 16

How many council houses were refurbished?

Answer 16

7,900.

Question 17

What social regeneration was there in terms of facilities?

Answer 17

• £100 million spent on health, education, training.

- New shopping centres have been developed.

Question 18

What did the new shopping centres develop together with?

Answer 18

• Post 16 college.
• Technical college
• National indoor sports centre
• New parks

Question 19

Why might people say it wasn’t a success?

Answer 19

• New houses to expensive for local people.
• New jobs went to people living outside the area.
• New comers didn’t mix with locals.
• More money spent on offices rather than hospitals

Question 20

Why did local people not get new jobs?

Answer 20

Did not have the technical skills

Question 21

What did the mixing of new comers and locals do?

Answer 21

Breaking down of the Eastenders community

Question 22

What did wealthy new comers cause?

Answer 22

Local shop and recreational prices to rise.

Question 23

Causes of the London Dockland decline?

Answer 23

• It was the busiest port in the world
• Technological advances required larger ships that could no longer reach the port.
• It became abandoned and derelict.

Question 24

When was the London Dockland the busiest port in the world?

Answer 24

Nineteenth century and up to 1950s

Question 25

The larger ships then went to?

Answer 25

Ports like Felixstowe.