Urban regeneration Flashcards
Property led regeneration
Urban development corporations
Partnerships between local and national governments and the private sector
City challenge
Schemes and strategies of the 21st century
Property led- Urban development corporations
- Set up in to 1980s and 90s to take responsibility for the physical, economic and social regeneration of selected inner city areas
- Planning approval powers above those of local authorities
- Encouraged to spend public money on the purchase of land, building and marketing
- Boards of UDCS were mainly made up of people from local business community
Problems with UDCs
- Lost huge sums of money through the compulsory purchase of land that later fell in value
- Greater powers than local authorities- democratic accountability removed (locals not involved)
London Docklands UDC case study
- 1960s- decline
- Larger vessels couldn’t access docks
- Fewer jobs because of mechanisation
- Decline of Port industries
- Poor housing- by 1981, 80% lived in poor quality high rise council flats
- 160,000 trees planted
- 17 conservation areas
- 120,000 jobs created
- Office construction. E.g flagship canary wharf
- Accessibility improved- London city airport, docklands light railway
- National indoor sports centre
London Docklands limitations
- Locals had no say
- Many of the new hi tech jobs attracted to the area weren’t suitable
- Failed to bring wealth to locals
- ‘yuppie’ residents pushed house prices beyond the reach of original residents
City challenge partnership
- New approach to funding- competitive bidding
- Local authority had to devise an imaginative project and form a partnerships in its local inner city area with the private sector and local communities
- Partnership submitted 5 year plan to central government in competition with other areas
- Adressed weaknesses of earlier regeneration- partners were better co ordinated, co operation between local authorities an private and public groups, prioritised equal value to buildings, people and property
- Areas suffered from high unemployment, poor levels of education, environmental deterioration, increasing derelict land, high crime
- compeition between areas for funding was believed to be successful because it improved the quality of proposals and encouraged new imaginative ideas
Limitations of city challenge
- Money should have been allocated according to need, not competitive advantage
- Neighbouring authorities competed against each other when they could’ve worked together
City challenge hulme
- £37.5 million investment
- Organisations involved- the guiness trust, beltway homes, manchester city council
- Appearance changed dramatically
- 600 new homes
- Crime greatly reduced
- ASDA
Schemes and strategies of the 21st century- prestige project developments
- Creation of innovative eye catching developments
e. g waterfront developments in cardiff bay
Schemes and strategies of the 21st century- sustainable communities
Places where people will want to be both now and in the future
Allow people who live in cities to have access to a home, job and reliable income
Sustainable communities - greenwich millennium village, london
built on 121 hectares of brownfield site so transformed the previous gasworks
Aims to cut primary energy use by 80% by using low energy building techniques
Britain’s first low energy sainsbury
