Docklands London, UK Flashcards
What was LONDON DOCKLAND like as a brownfield site?
- 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.
What happened to the docks in 1981?
Docks had closed.
Over half the land was derelict.
Very few jobs
The nineteenth century houses needed…
Urgently repair.
In the nineteenth transport was…
Poorly developed.
What ECONOMIC REGENERATION was there in terms of jobs?
- 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%
Name 4 high tech firms that were attracted by low rents?
- Stock exchange
- Limehouse ITV Studios
- The Guardian
- Daily Telegraph
By 1996 how much office space had been left in the PRESTIGIOUS CANARY WHARF BUSINESS COMPLEX?
76%
What economic regeneration was there in the terms of TRANSPORT?
- Improved transport links.
- Over 35km of new road, links to the M11
- The city airport
What did the IMPROVED transport links mean?
That central London can now be reached within 10 mins.
How did The Dockland Light Railway Improve?
Connected to the underground system.
Carries 320,000 passengers a week over its 29km of track
What SOCIAL regeneration was there in terms of housing?
- Over 19,800 new homes built.
- The improvement in home provision has increased resident population.
- Proportion of owner occupied houses increased.
- Low cost housing
Former warehouses converted into…
Luxury flats.
The improvement in home provision increased resident population from…
39,400 in 1981 to 76,850 in 1996.
The proportion of owner occupied houses increased from…
5-40%
What council concentrated on providing low cost housing?
Newsham
How many council houses were refurbished?
7,900.
What social regeneration was there in terms of facilities?
- £100 million spent on health, education, training.
- New shopping centres have been developed.
What did the new shopping centres develop together with?
- Post 16 college.
- Technical college
- National indoor sports centre
- New parks
Why might people say it wasn’t a success?
- 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
Why did local people not get new jobs?
Did not have the technical skills
What did the mixing of new comers and locals do?
Breaking down of the Eastenders community
What did wealthy new comers cause?
Local shop and recreational prices to rise.
Causes of the London Dockland decline?
- 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.
When was the London Dockland the busiest port in the world?
Nineteenth century and up to 1950s
The larger ships then went to?
Ports like Felixstowe.
