4.6C Local Vs contrasting place

Cards (14)

  • 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