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Communitylinks Social Change Series: 1 communitylinks Social Change Series: 1 CONTENTS 1 Introduction 1 2 Gold for all? 2 3 The scope of regeneration 4 Stratford City 4 Canning Town and Custom House: 4 Royal Docks regeneration 5 Thames Gateway 5 Crossrail 5 Channel Tunnel Rail Link 5 4 Summaries of Community Links’ regeneration research 6 Quality of Life in Canning Town 6 Community Engagement and Community Cohesion 7 Community Development research 8 ‘Inspired by the Olympics’ 9 Olympics research by young people 10 Fool’s Gold 12 Olympic Regeneration Opportunities 14 5 106 Agreements – Opportunities Missed but Potential Remains 16 6 What does good regeneration look like? 18 7 Transforming East London: an exceptional place at an exceptional time 20 What we are doing next and our call to action 20 What you can do 23 COMMUNITY LINKS AND REGENERATION 1 INTRODUCTION The Community Links Social Change series draws together information from existing reports detailing our position and track record on significant, complex issues which we, as a multipurpose organisation, are engaged with on several levels. This edition focuses on the physical regeneration of our area. We map the major redevelopments happening across east London, summarise our relevant recent research and set out our key recommendations on this topic. We also include some insights from those most affected by the changes – the young people who will grow up to live and work in the places currently being shaped by regeneration. We hope that this booklet will offer friends, partners, service users and those new to Community Links a good introduction to this part of our work. Did you know? G Newham has the highest number of young people in London who are not in employment, education or training (NEET). G 55% of Newham’s children and young people are growing up in poverty. G 50% of children in Newham live in a household with a single parent or other family arrangement. G Newham’s population is set to increase by approximately 70,000 over the next 15 years. G Newham has the youngest age profile of all London Boroughs. G Current physical regeneration projects across Newham total at least £15 billion. COMMUNITY LINKS AND REGENERATION 1 2 GOLD FOR ALL? The Olympic Games offer a golden opportunity to invest in young people’s potential in London’s east end. But will they be a missed opportunity, asks Community Links co-founder Kevin Jenkins. The London Borough of Newham is at the east end of London’s east end – hemmed in between the River Lea, the Thames and the developing site of the London 2012 Olympic Games. The Olympics – and more importantly the 22 other major regeneration projects that the games bring with them – provide an unprecedented once-in-a-generation opportunity for Newham and east London to achieve a sustained and permanent regeneration, ending years of poverty, dependency and stagnation. This is our chance for local young people to go for gold. Yet we are in danger of missing out on this unprecedented opportunity. In Newham itself, 8 out of 10 young people believe that the Olympics and associated regeneration will mean nothing to them – a damning and sad statistic. An analysis of previous regeneration initiatives is not encouraging. Although the east end has enjoyed constant regeneration projects since the last berth closed in the docks – the foundation of the area’s economy and culture since the early 1900s – Newham and the adjacent London boroughs still rank in the poorest ten urban communities in England. Newham has achieved a steady upward improvement, moving up from the poorest urban area to the ninth poorest area. But it still has significant challenges to overcome. If we are to achieve a sustained and successful regeneration effort, it is essential that we raise the confidence, self-esteem and aspirations of the most excluded people in these communities – including young people. People will not access opportunities if they are not confident in themselves, in their own abilities and in their communities. Here 2 COMMUNITY LINKS AND REGENERATION lies the greatest challenge of all. With guidance and time, even the most disadvantaged young people can be supported into education, training and employment opportunities. Such work takes time and is labour intensive – but it works. Take the Community Links ‘New Deal for the young unemployed’ project, which follows the model described above. This is consistently the best-performing project in the country for moving unemployed 18-24 year olds into sustained employment. To date, however, Olympic funding opportunities have “Regenerating Newham is a failed to recognise the need for this marathon not a 100m sprint. core work, which means that, in the And at the end of the long term, those at the bottom will marathon, the winners must remain at the bottom. be the local residents.” If we are to turn this opportunity around, the authorities, the developers and the charity sector must all work together with local people in east London to stimulate change. Real meaningful change will only be achieved if we raise the bar for all today’s young people – enabling them to gain the necessary skills and tools to access tomorrow’s regeneration. If we are to achieve Gold for All in Newham, we need to reflect the Olympic ideals of challenge, cooperation and respect for all. Regenerating Newham is a marathon not a 100m sprint. And at the end of the marathon, the winners must be the local residents. They are the people who will be staying the distance while authorities, developers and charities change and move on. At Community Links our founding philosophy is simple: we believe that every individual has something to offer, if they are only given the opportunity. Our daily challenge is to make sure that the unprecedented opportunities facing us do not become an unprecedented failure before we reach the starting blocks. G This article first appeared in Private Equity Foundation News Update. We are grateful for permission to reproduce it here. COMMUNITY LINKS AND REGENERATION 3 THE SCOPE OF 3 REGENERATION There have been a huge range of regeneration schemes since the 1960’s and you can see most of them from the roof of Community Links in Barking Road. The Urban Development Corporation that built Canary Wharf on the Isle of Dogs, City Challenge in Stratford, a number of Single Regeneration Budget programmes and most recently, the £50 million New Deal programme in West Ham and Plaistow. A number of very large physical regeneration schemes are currently underway, either redeveloping run-down housing estates or focusing on ‘brownfield’ land (land that was previously industrial space). The London Borough of Newham alone has 23 regeneration programmes which include the following. Stratford City: a £4 billion programme to develop 4,500 homes (30 per cent of which will be affordable housing), 140,000 square metres of retail space (100+ shops) including a cinema complex, arts centre, sports and leisure facilities and 465,000 square metres of office space. It is estimated this will generate 33,000 jobs. The project includes new health facilities together with a new primary and secondary school. Stratford City will house most of the Olympic athletes during the 2012 games and was bought forward by three years in order to meet the Games deadline. Canning Town and Custom House: a £1.7 billion project to create a mixed income community. The project includes the demolition of 1,700 existing social housing units, building of 8,000 new homes (1,700 of which will be social housing to replace those demolished) and the creation of 500,000 square metres of floor space in a revitalised town centre. 4 COMMUNITY LINKS AND REGENERATION Royal Docks regeneration which includes: Silvertown Quays (£1.5 billion) Royals Business Park (£500 million) Peruvian Wharf (1,500 homes) Barrier Park east (1,000 homes) Royal Albert Basin (2,000 homes) Minoco Wharf (4,000 homes). Thames Gateway: Thames Gateway is east London, Essex and Kent along the River Thames. Previously called the east Thames Corridor, it extends from Stratford and Greenwich in London to Tilbury in Essex and Sittingbourne and Sheerness in Kent. The development of Thames Gateway over the next decade will provide for a mix of industry, housing, open spaces and local facilities. There will be a minimum of 142,000 additional homes and 255,000 additional jobs by 2016. Crossrail: This will provide a major new railway for London and the south east from 2017. The route goes from Maidenhead and Heathrow in the west right across the capital into Essex and Kent in the east. It travels underground through the city centre between Paddington and east London. Estimated benefits of Crossrail to the UK economy are approximately £30 billion (Transport for London figures, May 2006), though the costs to build it are currently forecast at £16 billion. An Act of Parliament in July 2008 has given authority for Crossrail to be built. Channel Tunnel Rail Link: By 2009 a six-mile tunnel from Stratford to St Pancras will further integrate Stratford into the rest of London, boosting the economic regeneration of the east end. Together with Olympic developments, the schemes above are expected to deliver nearly 32,000 new homes in this one borough alone, which translates into an increase in Newham’s population over the next 10-15 years of nearly 70,000 people. In addition, it is estimated that 75,000 new jobs will be created. COMMUNITY LINKS AND REGENERATION 5 SUMMARIES OF 4 COMMUNITY LINKS’ REGENERATION RESEARCH Community Links has always been responsive to our local community, both in developing services with local people and working to change national policy which impacts locally.
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