Leicester

• History:

  • 1920s- 30,000 worked at Leicester Mills
  • 1960s- 1 Factory- 6500 Workers- knitwear for M&S
  • 1970s- overseas competition- Industries closed
• Dereliction:

  • Previous industrial land was abandoned or derelict
  • The land is contaminated from the chemical waste dumped there when the factories were used
• Strategy

  • 2016- Leicester’s designers and specialist textile workers help keep the industry alive there with less local employees
  • HYPE Company, Boohoo and ASOS examples
• Unemployment, Depopulation and Deprivation

  • Most inner cities are experiencing population increases.
  • 70s and 80s- major population declines due to deindustrialisation
  • Leicester- areas of deprivation coincide with previous industrial areas and wards with large ethnic populations
• Deprivation in inner city Leicester

  • Belgrave- 6.7% unemployed - top 20% of England’s most deprived wards
  • Charnwood- 8.1% unemployed - top 20%
  • Stoneygate- 7.0% unemployed - top 20%
  • Latimer- 6.55 unemployed- top 5%
  • Spinney Hills- 7.9% unemployed - top 5%