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Positives and Successes of the Eden Project

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Positives and Successes of the Eden Project

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In the first ten years, The Eden Project:
-generated £1.1 billion for Cornwall's economy
-attracted 13 million visitors
-directly employed 650 people and also helped to sustain 3000 related jobs
-increased employment in other tourist-related businesses in Cornwall
-Extended tourism as a year round sector, by providing tourists with a destination for a rainy day.
-Benefit local businesses by gaining customers
-It has a youth hostel and also offers apprenticeships and degree courses
-It has diversed into music events

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What and where is the Eden Project? Is it top-down or bottom-up?

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What and where is the Eden Project? Is it top-down or bottom-up?

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- Opened in March 2001
- Popular tourist attraction, consisting of 2 large biomes exhibiting major plant types, and an education centre about sustainable living and a youth hostel.
- Transformed landscape from a china clay quarry
- Cost £140 million
- In St Austell, roughly 4 hours from London
- Overseeing was from large private investors, so it's a TOP-DOWN project
- £56 million form national lottery, and £50 million from EU regional development funding and the South West regional development agency as well as £20 million in funds

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- Development of a future geothermal energy plant to provide green energy to the region.
- Learning village will provide 1 of the UK's top learning centers - this means better education opportunities for the children.
- New hotel will provide on site accommodation and will blend into the countryside, which will keep residents happy, with high standards of accessibility, energy efficiency and sustainability. The hotel will provide new jobs and increase tourism in the area.
- As a result of continued investment to the Eden Project, stakeholders can continue to expand and develop this project further, boosting diversity, income, job opportunities and the national and local economy.

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- Major source of pollution
- Contributed to major traffic congestion
- Most of the people employed are over 50, thus meaning there aren't job opportunities for younger people
- The traffic has caused the value of surrounding houses to decrease
- The irony of trying to be an environmentally friendly attraction when it HUGELY contributes to pollution (car emissions, noise pollution and light pollution)
- Local firms find it hard to recruit staff
- Areas far from the project have lost investment
- Local attractions experienced a fall in visitors
- Doesn't take everyone out of poverty (still significant deprivation in certain areas - St Austell)
- Not easily accessible (no major motorway)

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The first major stakeholders of the Eden project are the local people. They are stakeholders as for instance some locals who used to work in the mines are now able to open up shops or B and B’s or other services for the public. The locals can also open up souvenir shops or memorabilia shops which can make them a lot of money. However many locals in areas around the project will be losing money as tourists will only now be drawn to the Eden Project and not to the other tourist attractions in the area. The council of St Austell will certainly benefit as the increased tourism will bring the council more money which will also benefit them

Scientist are also another important stakeholder as they can conduct important research in different climates even though they are only in the wet countryside of Cornwall.

Tourists are also major stakeholders as they are the ones who provide the main source of income for the project whenever they visit or buy anything in the surrounding area. So essentially the tourists are the people who fund the project.

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