Regeneration

What happened in Grampound?

The store within Grampound, Cornwall shut down in 2013 because the owners retired and couldn’t find a buyer. Unlike other villages, the locals decided to open a shop and coffee shop, owned and run by the villages

• Raised £50,000 from grants, funds, campaigns etc

What makes Grampound/Cornwall more likely to get involved in community work?

• Nearly 20% of Cornwall’s population is over 65 meaning people have more time to spend on community activities

• Cornwall has a low rate of short-term residents when compared to the national average → this means that people stay for a long time and are more likely to be invested in an area

• Women were in the majority and it is proven that women engage more in community work

What is ‘good’ about silicon valley?

• Only has a 2% unemployment rate

• There’s an average household income of over $100,000

• Great job opportunities in the tech job sector

What are the issues with Silicon valley?

• Median rent a month of $5,000

• Over a million dollars average house price

What happens to a lot of housing in Silicon valley due to the massive increase in house prices?

Due to the constant increase of house prices many house buyers cannot be bothered with tenants and instead just treat the housing like a commodity for profit letting it gain more value without using it ‘ghost houses’.

What issues arise from the high house prices in Silicon valley?

• Many people end up living in vans and cars and showering at gyms because they cannot afford rent

• Many people have to commute for hours to get to their job as they cannot afford local rent → waste of time and money

What issues arise for the lower payed people in Silicon valley?

People still end up renting in Silicon valley as many people living there work in high payed jobs so landlords know they can raise the rent even higher. Meaning people who don’t work in these extremely high payed jobs will end up not being able to pay rent and have to move

What occurred in Beattyville?

for decades, coal mining provided jobs and income for the residents living in Beattyvillie → from the 20th century onwards coal declined rapidly for a number of reasons:

• Renewable options

• Mechanisation → fewer workers needed

• Cheaper labour abroad

What were the impacts of the de-industrialisation within Beattyville?

• Many people live in trailer homes/log cabins

• Median income off $12,000

• 1/3 of teenagers drop out of high school

• Life expectancy is extremely low

• High levels of obesity (more than 80%)

• High drug crime (deaths)

• ½ of families live under the poverty line

Functional change in Canterbury

1800 → market town centered on the cathedral → local trade, markets and crafts dominate

Early - mid 1900s → Growth of local government, retail and tourism expands, industry continues but starts to decline post WW2

Late 1900s → Industrial activites end → redevelopment of brownfield sites → uni of Kent and Christchurch uni → service and retail sectors expand (city becomes a shopping a tourist definition

2000-2010s → Knowledge and service based economy

2020s - today → More regeneration → focus on cafes, leisure, tourism and culture. Almost no industrial employment → full shift to service and tourism

Demographic change in Canterbury

1800s → small population, largely working age, almost entirely white british

Mid 1900s → Slow growth of population, baby boom created a younger population, still mostly white british

Late 1900s → Population grew by 500%, growth in students and young adults, early signs of diversity (students and EU migration)

2000s → increase by about 20%, median age of mid 30’s, 90% white

Functional change in Stratford

1800s → major railway and industrial suburb, local markets servicing workers and families

1900s - 1950s → continued industrial dominance, functioned as a self contained industrial and residential community

late 1900s → closure of factories, decline in rail-works, vacant industrial land and unemployment

2000s-2012 → Start of massive regeneration → infrastructure upgrades and brownfield clearance for the 2012 London olympics, early development of new retail and transport facilities

2012 -2015 → Stratford become a regional retail and leisure hub, growth of offices, full decline in industrial

2015 - present → Fully transitions to a service based economy (retail,tech,office etc), ongoing new transport links

Demographic change in Stratford

1800s - Rapid population growth of working class families, Population largely white british

1900s - 1950s → Growth of immigrant populations, tight knit local communities, population remains young and working class

1960s - 1990s → Out migration of some residents seeking work elsewhere, High unemployment, Increased diversity

2000s - 2012 → Nearly 50,000 construction workers to build the olympic stadium, among London’s most diverse areas → large working-class and migrant populations

2012 - 2015 → Rapid in-migration of professionals, students and young families, rising property prices and rents, ongoing strong ethic diversity

2015 - present → highly diverse, young median average (30), social/housing inequalities