Agents of Change

• Bournville Village, Birmingham

  • Bournville was shaped by the beliefs and ideals of one industrial family - the Cadbury’s.
  • It was built as a garden village with tree lined roads and houses with front and back gardens for the employees of Cadbury’s factory. 
  • When Cadbury’s went global and Bournvulle was no longer inhabited by the employees the ‘place’ changed very little.
  • The physical appearance of the community remained largely the same.
  • 2003- it was named the ‘nicest place in Britain”.
  • Large green areas remain
• Devonport Plymouth

  • Has changed a lot in the last 30 years as a result of external factors 
  • It was a naval dockland and in the 18th century was one of the fastest growing towns
  • After WW2, the Navy requisitioned Devonport as a storage enclave and enclosed it with a metre high wall which split the town in 2.
  • Naval jobs declined and led to significant socio-economic challenges
  • 2001 - it benefited from the New Deals for Communities. Addressing, crime, community, housing
  • Community groups were heavily involved.
  • Inter-war housing was removed and historical landmarks were incorporated
• Medellin, Colombia

  • The ‘City of Eternal Spring’
  • Previously associated with drugs and violence Lord Pablo Escobar has enormous power until death in 1993
  • City planners have since rebranded the city 
  • Social classes are now more integrated. Poorest people can access the city centre through outdoor escalators and a gondola system 
  • Bus rapid transit system named Metroplus with dedicated bus landers and free bike sharing system
  • Education and social programmes 
  • There are still problems but optimism is high 
• Agents of change in Tadcaster - Government

  • Tadcaster Town Council - Key decision maker in Eleven Arches housing development  
  • North Yorkshire County council 
  • Selby and Ainsty Constituency
• Agents of change in Tadcaster - Corporate Bodies

  • John Smiths Brewery 
  • Sam Smiths Brewery 
  • Tower (coors) Brewery 
  • Humphrey Smith - wouldn't allow footbridge 
  • Sainsburys  
• Agents of change in Tadcaster - The Role of Community and local groups

  • The Barn 
  • Tadcaster Albion FC
  • St Mary's Church 
  • Tadcaster methodist Church
  • Tadcaster Scout group 
  • Tadcaster Greenbelt protection group 
  • ‘Tadcrafters’ knitted bunting when bridge was reopened
• Agents of change at Brick Lane - Government

  • Tower Hamlets Council - deindustrialisation and subsequent regeneration initiatives 
  • London City Council
  • Migration of Bangladeshis in 1970s 
• Agents of change at Brick Lane - Corporate Bodies

  Truman Brewery has 300 mainly small businesses including 205 microbusinesses run by Zeloof Partnership
• Agents of Change at Brick Lane - The Role of Community and local groups

  • Brick Lane book group
  •   Muslim Community 
  • ‘Save brick lane’ campaign raised £20,000 to fight Truman Brewery shopping development. Fighest to resist gentrification 
  • Movement of the middle class into the area borough of Tower Hamlets which included Brick laner has undergone the most gentrification in London from years 2010 to 2016. Anti Gentrification riots in 2021.