Regeneration: Olympic Games

Question 1

What was the regeneration of the Olympic Games?

Answer 1

Leave behind a positive physical, economic, and social legacy to the deprived east London host boroughs

But did it enhance employment and housing for existing residents or displace these residents and provide the benefits to the incoming middle class?

Question 2

What issues have already been seen?

Answer 2

• rising private house costs
• affordable housing and community facilities removed for games facilities eg 400 houses demolished at clays lane housing estate in newham
• disparity between income of local residents and house prices

Question 3

Where is the carpenters estate located?

Answer 3

Near the Olympic park in Stratford

Was already being gentrified but the Olympic park increased rate in the area

Question 4

Why did the Olympic regeneration cause gentrification?

Answer 4

• money spent on area = more attractive, higher class area
• = rising house prices
• also now a tourist attraction, making it more expensive

Question 5

What is indirect displacement?

Answer 5

The local area changes to such a degree that residents no longer feel it is “their place”

Question 6

Quote from watt (2014) regarding the population becoming richer

Answer 6

The richer the community becomes, the less pressure there is on the local authority to provide services such as public transport, libraries, subsidised leisure facilities