Regeneration

• Boscombe


  • 22% retail outlets empty 2021
  • Double amount of drug offences to neighboring southborne
  • 10% most deprived areas in England
  • Boscombe central top 2% most deprived LSOAs nationally
• Newport


  Over 40 shops empty
• Seaview and Nettlestone


  • 30% homes unusual residence
  • 41.5% population over 65
  • Voter turnout 10% over national average
  • 30-40% least overall deprived, 30-40% most deprived in barriers to housing and services
  • House prices more than 100,000 pounds over iow average
• Stratford


  • Significant higher unemployment rates 7.8%( rest of london) - 4.5%
  • £9.3 billion investment from national government for 2012 games, recovered from tickets
  • Westfield shopping centre 10,000 jobs, 1 billion annual turnover
  • 450 residents clays lane forced to move
  • 3000 new affordable housing, reduced to 800, have to earn £60,000 to qualify
• London docklands- Canary Wharf


  • 50% docklands derelict in 1981
  • 21% unemployment in 70s
  • Central Government gave LLDC £770 million to regenerate
  • £20 million spent on environmental community projects
• Berkshire


  • ONS survey 2008 showed half of population worked in knowledge based, professional, managerial positions
  • Property prices rise 40-50% in 10 years from 2005- out of reach for 20% working age population
• Cornwall


  • One of the lowest average weekly wages in the UK - £332 in 2015
  • 34.5% of workers are part time - 3rd highest in the country (2021)
  • Eden Project - flagship tourist attraction. 400 people employed year-round
  • each visitor spends on average £150 in Cornwall (multiplier effect for local economy)