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
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