4.6C Local Vs contrasting place

• Newham: Changing functions

  • Total leisure expenditure available to support new facilities is expected to increase by around 72% to the period 2025.
  • entertainment Such as, eating and drinking provision throughout the Borough is relatively weak, highlighted by a reasonably significant leakage of trade to destinations outside the Borough
  • Originally a small culture of high-tech firms but are now becoming the capitals leading destination for high tech companies
  • From 15 to over 300 
• Newham: Industrial

  • Originally a small culture of high-tech firms but are now becoming the capitals leading destination for high tech companies
  • From 15 to over 300 
• Newham: Employment

  • Newham have heavily increased employment levels over time
  • From an Initial 60% employed to a final employment level of 75%
  • Due to the increase in high tech firms which allowed more jobs to be supplied 
• Newham: education

  • Amount of people with NVQ 4 or above has increased massively from 10% to 60% of the population
  • The gentrification resulted in better schooling and education so more people had better qualifications
• Newham: Accessibility and connectedness

  • Newham has enjoyed substantial investment in public transport (DLR, Jubilee line, High Speed 1, Crossrail) over the last 40 years.
  • Newham also has a high percentage of stations with step free access when compared to other boroughs
  • this is to allow more commuters into the area
• Newham: Gentriication

  • Newham has seen the highest level of gentrification of all outer-London boroughs
  • Causing better schooling and education
• Newham: Age structure

  • 2018 the average age was 32
  • with 200,000 being male and 150,000 being female
• Ascot: changing functions

  • Still kept its commercial function in terms of royal ascot, approx 600,000 go each year
• Ascot: Employment

  • 40% are full-time employed
  • 5% are unemployed
  • 13% are retired
• Ascot: Demographics

  • highest average age is 15-19, then second highest is 50-54
  • indicates that people move here to start families
  • around 3,000 males and 3,000 females and 1,200 children (0-15)
• Ascot: education

  • 57.5% of children living in Bracknell Forest acheived 5 GCSEs at grades A* to C which included English and Maths
  • Amount of people with qualification Level 4 and above is 1,900
  • whilst 500 people have 0 qualifications
• Ascot: accessibility and connections

  • Have a train station that runs a direct line into London Waterloo
  • Bus services to Windsor
  • a 20 minute drive to Heathrow
• Ascot: IMD score

  • 4.8
  • % of population in child poverty is 3.7%
• Newham: IMD score