Urban Polocies

Question 1

SHEFIELD CASE STUDY

Answer 1

Used to have a steel industry, deindustrialised
Park hill flats being regenerated
‘Gold route’ designed into the city centre to give tourists and visitors a good impression.
Hope that other areas will develop like the city centre (combination of modernism and historic culture.
AMP - advanced manufacturing park - land reserved for small and large companies

Question 2

St Ives, Cambridge

Answer 2

Population inc from 3800 to 16400 in 50 yrs
25% commuters to LDN
A14 traffic congestion
House prices inc
Predominantly young families putting pressure on schools and other local services

Future developments to be controlled 
2 new schools 
8.8 mil embankments and flood wall
116 mil bus way linking Huntingdon & Cambridge to reduce A14 traffic 
200 new rent social and affordable homes

Question 3

LDN docklands (1981 - 1999)

Answer 3

8.5 miles of East LDN changed from brownfield into new roads and railways (£77 mil)
85000 new jobs and 2700 new trading businesses located along it
24046 new homes

Question 4

Urban policy

Answer 4

Strategies used by local or national government to develop urban areas and reduce urban issues.

Question 5

Manchester Hulme city challenge

Answer 5

230 acres brownfield land into holds ‘gr8 neighbourhood’ award
50 acres greenfield
Refurbished the derelict buildings into council housing which filled enough to support local services
Life building with leisure activities intertwined built next to supermarket

Question 6

Devonport Regeneration, Plymouth

Answer 6

Dockyard that used to employ loads until it got walled off for security reasons and people started to leave the area and it closed. Lots of street violence and crime. Housing over crowded.

1.75 mil grant restored DEVONPORT GUILDHALL
700,000 lottery fund restored DEVONPORT COLUMN
GRANBY GREEN refurbished
KER STREET war flats refurbished
Community environment reestablished