diverse places case studies

• 90% white in Cranbrook compared to 65% in Headington
• In headington 26% of residents are students 
• Brookes university has 17,000 students of which 17% are international
• the new John Henry Brookes building was completed in 2015 and student numbers rose after that
• The John Radcliffe hospital employs 12,000 people and 19% of them are first generation immigrants
• Cranbrook has no train station whilst Headington has better transport links
• Cranbrook is accessible rural while Headington is a suburb
• Headington shops contains many ethnic supermarkets, turkish barbers
• headington has a younger median age than Cranbrook due to student population and young families living there due to good school access
• there are two primary schools in Headington and two secondaries (one private)
• Cranbrook only has one selective secondary school which makes the area unattractive for families, meaning the population is ageing
• • Headington is more modernised than Cranbrook’s mediaeval town layout with 6 churches
• In 2023 a project was approved to build 165 new houses in Cranbrook by the local council. Michael Gove vetoed this saying he didn't like its 'generic suburban look'. This prompted outrage as affordable houses would have attracted younger people to Cranbrook, even if it may have ruined the landscape
• in 1999 and 2007 Cornwall received EU objective one funding due to deprivation in the region. This helped fund both the Eden project and superfast broadband
• In 10 years the Eden project generated £1.1bn and attracted 13 million visitors
• superfast broadband in cornwall has an estimated £200m impact each year, making it worth its cost of £132m which was funded by BT and the EU
• Between 1970 and 1980 30,000 jobs were lost in the Docklands
• In 1981 50% of the Docklands was derelict
• over 100,000 people now work in the Docklands area and 50,000 houses have been built since the beginning of the regeneration
• London Docklands Development Corporation was delegated power to regenerate the area in 1981
• DLR (docklands light railway) opened in 1987
• in the 2011 census Boston Lincolnshire was the area with the highest percentage of eastern european immigrants in the UK at 25%
• 75% of people in boston voted to leave the EU, the highest percentage for a town in the UK
• 96% of Cornwall are white
• 25% of Cornwall's population is 65+. A 4% increase from 2011 census
• lincolnshire supplies the UK with a quarter of its packaged food
• in newham there is a non-white majority with the largest ethnic group being Bangladeshi at 16%. A total of 42% are Asian
• newham is the most ethnically diverse place
• 41% of newham's population is in relative poverty
• newham is a london borough in the inner city
• Newham's median age is 32 which is 8 years younger than the UK average
• Cornwall's median age is 47 which has increased since the 2011 census
• luton is an example of a commuter town as takes about 30 minutes to get to London by train
• milton keynes was built in the 60s to relieve housing problems in London. it now has a population of 250,000