1. Newcastle Regeneration
Urban Development Corporations
&
City Challenge

2. Solutions to Problems in Newcastle
Established in 1987 the Tyne & Wear development Corporation ( government funded agency) charged with task of regenerating 50km of riverside in the NE of England.
Invested millions of pounds acquiring and clearing derelict land, laying on new infrastructure and setting up major schemes.

3. Aims of the TWDC
Create new business districts/ modern office developments.
Increase employment & introduce training schemes.
Revive riverside – create new homes and leisure facilities.
Improve the environment – landscape, cycle ways walkways.

4. Projects Newcastle Business park Cost £140 million.
25ha devleopment of modern offices, in landscaped river setting.
Total employment
exceeds 4,000.

5. Newcastle Arena Built on former railway goods yard.
New 10,000 weather stadium holds major pop concerts.

6. Newcastle Quayside
The derelict Quayside area has been transformed into a new business quarter with high quality offices, pubs, restaurants, leisure facilities, new homes & hotels. The cost of the project £170 million.

7. Flats
Law courts
Chamber of Commerce
Estate agents
Mexican Restaurant

8. Pubs
Restaurants

9. Castle Keep
Old Fish Market converted into Sea Night Club

10. Malmaison 4* Hotel
La Tasca – Spanish Restaurant
Est Est Est – Italian Restaurant
Pitcher & Piano Bar

11. 1)The Question is; did it help those people in need?
For example, the residents of Scotswood, where unemployment was 50%
2)What happened to the old offices, where companies like BT, were located until they moved to the Quayside?

12. City Challenge Partnerships
To gain funding a local authority had to come up with an imaginative project and form a partnership in its local inner city area with the private sector and local communities. The partnership then submitted a 5 year plan to the government in competition with other inner city areas.
Better the UDCs?

13. Successful? Quality of proposals improved – more imaginative ideas.
Local authorities now began to identify problems & solutions to these.
Should it be allocated in regards to needs, rather than competitive advantage.
Neighbouring authorities competed against each other rather than working together.
All bids were awarded the same amount of money – rather than according to need.
40,000 houses improved, 53,000 jobs, 3,000 new businesses & 2,000ha derelict land reclaimed.