Hulme

Question 1

Location

Answer 1

Manchester in North England
- 10 mins from Manchester cit centre

Question 2

Overview of Hulme (the conditions)

Answer 2

• 1930s: 130,000 people lived there
• traditional working class area
• very poor housing, including back to backs
• slum clearance 1950s and 60s
• 1960s: redeveloped for 12,000 (deck access flats, vehicular-pedestrian segregation)
  MAJOR PROBLEMS:
• infestation
• poor heating
• unemployment (39%)

Question 3

Why did hulme need redeveloping

Answer 3

• over 60% of residents claiming benefits
• residents being 30% more likely to be mugged than national average (partially due to the 4deck access added in 1960)
• residents being 3x more likely to display clinic signs of stress
  -unemployment levels in the flats was 40%
• described as ‘an island of deprivation’ - one of the worst in Western Europe
• flats sufferent from frequent pest infestations, heating inadequacies and poor child safety

Question 4

Who are city challenge, who were they partners and what was the proposal

Answer 4

• city challenge is gov ran -> had a $35m budget for the redevelopment + also benefitted from other UK-area based initiatives
• Partnership with AMEC regeneration
• Hulme regeneration (3 councillors, 3 members of AMEC, 3 community representatives)
  PROPOSAL
• demolish all deck access blocks
• redevelop as an ordinary neighbourhood
• reopen the area to traffic (Stratford road)
• high density redevelopments
• sites for employment on princess road

Question 5

What was the budget in totality and How was hulme redeveloped

Answer 5

• The hulme and moss side partnership received over $400m in public and private investment since 1997. $34m of which came from the government as part of the city challenge partnership
• Deck access flats were demolished
• the construction of the hulme Arch bridge
• new road infrastructure
• Birley Fields - a new business park
• over 2000 new homes built
• Zion centre - a flag ship arts and community centre
• new parks

Question 6

What was the achievements of the redevelopment

Answer 6

• mixed tenure
• high quality design of housing
• increased densities
• environmental improvements
• integration with the rest of the city

Question 7

Success/failure

Answer 7

• improved housing
• social rented homes have remained affordable
• young professionals now make up 30% of the working population -> has resulted in increasing house prices pricing many locals out of the area
• the population of the area has grown by 3.3% (re-urbanisation) compared its a 0.2% increase for the whole city
• 64% of the houses in the area are still socially rented
• the area has attracted many new high-tech industries which value locations close to Manchester university
• the statistical deprivation in Hulme has improved compared to the rest of the city
• unemployment levels have declined to 7% although are still high than the national average

Question 8

Hulme after the city challenge

Answer 8

• much more attractive area
• dramatic diversification of the housing stock
• new housing association homes remain as affordable as council homes
• the price of new private homes has risen far faster than the city as a whole

Question 9

reflection

Answer 9

• local area is still high in national terms
• Hulme compares badly with more successful areas of the city on employment, education and child poverty
• not the full range of local services, lack self-generating businesses