Hulme Flashcards
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Location
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Manchester in North England
- 10 mins from Manchester cit centre
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Overview of Hulme (the conditions)
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- 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%)
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Why did hulme need redeveloping
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- 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
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Who are city challenge, who were they partners and what was the proposal
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- 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
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What was the budget in totality and How was hulme redeveloped
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- 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
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What was the achievements of the redevelopment
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- mixed tenure
- high quality design of housing
- increased densities
- environmental improvements
- integration with the rest of the city
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Success/failure
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- 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
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Hulme after the city challenge
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- 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
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reflection
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- 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