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A Vision for Scarborough - Types of Regeneration

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A Vision for Scarborough - Types of Regeneration

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We're aware that Geography fieldwork might need to be a bit different for a while, so we've been working hard on a wide range of teaching resources to bring our classroom to you.

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Deprivation (economy and wages) in Scarborough

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Historic maps and photographs of Scarborough

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Historic maps and photographs of Scarborough

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Discover historic maps of the Scarborough area in Yorkshire. Maps of different years, series and scales available to browse and buy.

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Regeneration of seaside towns...Some information from Bournemouth University. 

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Regeneration of seaside towns...Some information from Bournemouth University. 

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A bucket and spade, the crunch in your sandwiches from the sand, having to lick your ice cream so it doesn't drip all down your hand and narrowly missing out on that soft toy that you've paid over the odds for at the arcades. There is something quite unique about a trip to the seaside.
Or at least there was in the 60s and 70s when people flocked to the seaside like migratory birds for their annual holidays. Since then British seasides have become derelict, rundown and abandoned as holiday destinations. As people started going on cheap all-inclusive package holidays to Spain and other European destinations where the sun was guaranteed for less than the cost of a visit the seaside.

In recent years however seaside towns around the coastline have started a renaissance to silence the critics and attract people to their shores once more.

Since 2010 tourism has been the fastest growing sector in the UK and by 2025 is estimated to be worth over £257 billion, and while these stats include London seaside towns are once again a major pull factor for tourists.

In terms of visitors taking holiday trips in 2014 there was an increase of 7% on the same period in 2013. Figures for overseas visitors show that the number of visitors to the UK has gone up 33% from figures recorded in 2003.

We look at five seaside resorts that are regenerating, redeveloping and beating the criticism to become seaside towns worth picking up your bucket and spade again.
Margate, Kent
In the 50s and 60s thousands of people travelled to Margate every summer rain or shine looking for fun in the sun on the golden sands.

The package holiday boom in the 70s and 80s hit the town harder than most though. Dreamland shut, The Scenic Railway, was burnt down and Westwood Cross an out of town shopping centre left the high-street empty.

After years of instability there is little surprise that the town dubbed as 'the original seaside resort' is finding its' feet again but in a new sophisticated, Instagram-friendly identity. This began with the opening of The Turner Contemporary Art Gallery in 2011 which has attracted over 2 million people to the area and contributed £41 million into the local economy.

Sir Roger Gale MP of North Thanet said: "It had a massive transformational effect. It had a huge gentrifying effect on the old town which had gone downhill. There's not a shop available in the old town now. Margate high street is filling up again with little boutiques, restaurants."

The total economic impact of tourism in Thanet was £245 million in 2013 - an increase of 6.5 per cent on 2011. In the same time period the total number of visitors rose by 7.3 per cent to almost 3.36 million.

Margate's second major step forward came in October 2015 when Dreamland reopened following the rebuilding of the Scenic Railway. The early indications of its reopening are positive and 16,000 people visited the weekend before Christmas.

Recent regeneration led to Margate having the largest rise in property prices outside London in 2015 at 26%. For a more in-depth look at Margate's recent regeneration why not watch our video.
Morecambe, Lancashire
Morecambe was a popular holiday destination before the 1970s for people from Yorkshire and Scotland due to its stunning views, close proximity to the Lake District and traditional seaside experience.

Like all other seaside towns Morecambe saw a huge decline at the end of the 70's because of package holidays but it got worse in 1986 following the collapse of the pier and in 1990 annual visitor numbers hit all-time low of 1.3 million.

Paul Rogers - Senior Regeneration Officer for Lancaster City Council said: "A lot of other seaside resorts managed to keep a critical mass of seaside attractions. If you go somewhere like Skegness it still has a critical mass of attractions. We lost it all, we were left with nothing."

Similarly to Margate, Morecambe is reinventing itself in a new identity beginning in 2008 with the reopening of the art deco Midland Hotel. With the hotel came wealthier visitors, willing to pay higher prices for a cup of tea and a cake, small boutiques, B&Bs, cafes, and galleries.

As a result the visitor economy is now worth over £260 million to the district, supporting over 4,500 jobs, with more than 4.6 million visits a year to the main visitor destinations of Morecambe, Lancaster.

A new marketing campaign showcasing Morecambe Bay has also attracted visitor but also private investors, who have planned regeneration for The Arndale shopping centre and the former Frontierland site.

The area is also set to benefit from a new road link to the M6 making access much easier. Regeneration has been slow but the town once again becoming a destination worth visiting.
Weymouth, Dorset
While Morecambe hit rock bottom in 1990 Weymouth was something of a late developer and hit its peak offering donkey rides, Punch and Judy - everything you could want from traditional quiet seaside holiday.

Due to Weymouth's late peak the task now is more one of development than of regeneration and this has been achieved by attracting two major events to the area, helping to hugely increase publicity.

The first of these was the Olympics in 2012 and whilst the anticipated visitors did not materialise in 2012 Matt Ryan - Head of Tourism and Leisure for Weymouth and West Dorset Matt said: "Because of the imagery that went around the world we have seen an uplift in international visitors that have wanted to come to Weymouth to see what they saw in that 2012 period."

It is reported Olympics related schemes helped pump £177 million of funding into the Weymouth area for facilities, regeneration and transport projects.

ITV's hit television series Broadchurch followed, and while filmed along the Jurassic Coast; which is another huge attraction, in nearby West Bay, it has brought huge amounts of people to the area wanting to see the imagery they saw on TV. Matt Ryan tells us more about the Broadchurch affect and what the area did to make the most of it.

As a result total visitor related spend has increased by 37%, £59 million, between 2011 and 2014 and there was also a 40% rise in the number of people making day trips to the area.
Falmouth, Cornwall
Seaside towns in Cornwall such as Falmouth have always been a favourite for people looking to enjoy a "staycation" and relax in a cottage by the sea.

Falmouth offers that quiet retreat but also tourism haven with Pendennis Castle, the third largest natural harbour in the world, the National Maritime Museum, boat cruises and five beaches as attractions.

But even it has not been exempt from struggles through the years. At the end of the millennium Falmouth was a town in decline struggling to compete with out of town stores and nearby towns such as Penzance and Truro which continued to thrive.

Fortunately Falmouth was awarded money due to its heritage status to regenerate the town centre and some surrounding areas. With £30 million awarded to build the National Maritime Museum.

A big turning point for Falmouth however has been Falmouth University which was granted complete university status in 2012. A study by Oxford Economics, confirms that Falmouth University and the University of Exeter, who share Penryn Campus, have contributed £491 million to the economy of Cornwall between 2002 and 2012.

John Pollard, Leader of Cornwall Council said: "The vision was to transform our higher education and research facilities at the Penryn Campus into a world-class asset for the region. Anyone who visits the Campus today will experience the energy and innovation which buzzes through it as private and public sectors work together."
Llandudno, Conwy
Llandudno 'The Queen of Welsh resorts' reached number three on Trip Advisor for best places to visit in the UK in 2015.

Llandudno serves as a reminder of just how good the seaside can be. Like all seaside towns Llandudno experienced a dip at the end of the 1970s and the 1980s, but its recovery has been remarkable.

George Brookes Destination Manager at Conwy County Council said: "The perception is that seaside resorts are on the wane and they're dying on their feet, and sadly some are but we've always worked very hard here to try and prevent that."

Llandudno's rise on Trip Advisor comes after huge amounts of restoration and maintenance to the Georgian and Victorian buildings along the seafront as well as to the pier, the longest in Wales at 2,295 feet.

Llandudno also worked hard to ensure it had as many visitor attractions as possible to bring people to the area. In addition to the pier, seafront and two bays there is the Great Orme, with great walks, stunning scenery and a copper mine. A dry tobogganing slop, an Alice in Wonderland trail around the town which has a good selection of shops, cafes and restaurants. The town's close proximity to Snowdonia also attracts visitors so there is little surprise the town is doing as well as it is.

As a result trips to Llandudno rose by 15.5% between 2011 and 2013 and a total of nearly 300,000 people visited per year on average.

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We Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside: Regeneration Sparks New Life into Rundown Seaside Towns - Journalism & News from Bournemouth University

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A bucket and spade, the crunch in your sandwiches from the sand, having to lick your ice cream so it doesn't drip all down your hand and narrowly missing out on that soft toy that you've paid over the odds for at the arcades. There is something quite unique about a trip to the seaside.

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Use the postcode Y011 for Scarborough

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The 2011 Census, mapped with context for England/Wales.

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2011 Census data (housing, employment, crime etc.) - you need the postcode of your study area. 

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All Postcodes in the YO11 Postcode District

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View the latest postcode information for YO11 postcodes, including age range, housing, gender, marital status, ethnicity, religion, health and employment census data.

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Deprivation (economy and wages) in Scarborough 

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The locals call it Scarbados, the Queen of the Coast. It has an ancient castle, spectacular cliffs, two sandy beaches and some of the most irresistible fish and chips in the country.

But there is a costly downside to living in Scarborough, according to a report from the Social Market Foundation, a thinktank. It found that low pay and high unemployment were common features of seaside life, along with poor health and educational attainment.

The North Yorkshire resort was named as the local authority with the lowest mean pay in Britain. Last year the average salary was just £19,925, compared with a national average of £28,442, according to the annual survey of hours and pay carried out by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

A disproportionately high level of Scarborians are self-employed or in part-time work. In Nicky's Unisex Hairdressers, up a steep street above the amusement arcades of the seafront in the deprived Castle ward, 48-year-old owner Nicola Franklin said she would love to earn so much. "I'm self-employed. I work to live. There are no extras, no treats," she said as she applied a purplish dye to a septuagenarian who was supplementing her state pension with a £7.50 an hour job as a cleaner.

Franklin's prices reflect her clients' circumstances: £20 for a wash, cut and blow dry; an extra tenner for colour if you bring your own dye. One regular, Jane, blamed the government for keeping wages so low. "They should never have brought in tax credits. They've allowed employers to pay badly, knowing the government would top people up, when really they should be paying decent wages."

Up the street, Steve Malloy was picking his son up from primary school. He was not surprised to hear that Scarborough was languishing at the bottom of the pay league. "Scarborough's shit," said the 37-year-old. He works six days a week for a Chinese restaurant as a delivery driver: £6 an hour, plus a pound for every order; 50p short of the national minimum wage.

Most jobs were seasonal, he said, and even those were hard to get. "Employers have their pick of workers. I'm not blaming them for coming over here and stealing our jobs or anything, because they are very hard workers, but the fact is that Polish people are willing to work for less."

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The majority of year-round jobs were in factories, said Malloy. McCain, of oven chips fame, has its UK headquarters in Scarborough, and was recently granted planning permission for a £100m expansion. "There are hundreds of factory jobs and they pay quite well, but the problem is that they're all advertised through an agency, who take a cut. The actual pay might be £14 an hour, but you'll only get half of it," grumbled Malloy.

The council leader, Derek Bastiman, will hear no such negativity. A lifelong resident of what he insists is perennially sunny Scarbados - "why would I want to live anywhere else when I already live in the best place in the world?" - he is angry that his beloved town keeps being dragged down by negative headlines. Just a few weeks ago he was on the defensive after Scarborough was named a personal bankruptcy hotspot - a study he said made "outrageous" assumptions about the area's economy.

"I just don't believe it, not knowing how far we've come in recent years," he said of the ONS salary data. It is easy to see that he used to be an estate agent, as he took the Guardian on a tour to show off his greatest hits: a new swimming pool and slide complex, a campus for Coventry University, an outdoor theatre that has welcomed Elton John and Little Mix, and the multicoloured beach huts ("chalets", in Scarborian parlance) on North Beach, which sell for a premium since their renovation.

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Scarborough's refurbished beach chalets. Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian

He parked outside Scarborough's shiny new university technological college (UTC) and whipped out his iPad to show that two years ago the site was a disused car park with a burnt-out car at its centre. A collaboration with the University of Hull, the UTC aims to prepare 14- to 18-year-olds for the swath of engineering and design jobs expected to emerge in the coming years.

Scarborough already has some engineering prowess, notably at Plaxton, a coach manufacturer. But a recent decision to site a £1.7bn potash mine on the moors above Whitby - part of Scarborough local authority - is expected to bring 2,500 direct and indirect jobs to the area by 2020. Robert Goodwill, the local Tory MP, is optimistic that the mine, which will dig up valuable fertiliser, will make a real difference. "These miners can earn over £50,000 a year for shift work," he said.

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One of Scarborough's biggest industries is tourism. Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian

Last year Scarborough was identified as a social mobility "coldspot" and given extra government support to improve educational standards. Along with Blackpool and four other areas, it can access an innovation fund worth £75m over three years, focused on supporting teachers and school leaders.

Transport is another challenge for Scarborough. There is one train an hour to York, the nearest city, just over 40 miles away, and the A64 road is single-lane in parts. Poor public transport condemns many to unemployment benefits. Jennifer Byrne, 21, who has three children, said there was no shortage of poorly paid care work - Scarborough has an ageing population and continues to be a magnet for retirees - but that as a non-driver she couldn't get to clients.

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Goodwill, a farmer and boss of an environmentally friendly funeral firm as well as an MP and education minister, sees positives in the isolation. "We are 40 miles away from everywhere else - Middlesbrough, York, Hull - which means we have to be quite self-sufficient. In some ways it's quite good news for local businesses in the service sector because they don't get competition coming in."

Unsurprisingly, he is optimistic about the future. "I think it's definitely moving in the right direction, because our reliance on tourism, which is low-paid and seasonal, will diminish and certainly the sort of money that people who will be working in the mining sector are likely to be pulling in will help, not just their own salaries but also the trickle down - they're going to be buying new cars from local car dealerships, going to some of the best restaurants and buying new kitchens. We won't be at the bottom of the pay league for much longer."
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'We won't be bottom for long': Scarborough shrugs off label of UK low-pay capital

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The locals call it Scarbados, the Queen of the Coast. It has an ancient castle, spectacular cliffs, two sandy beaches and some of the most irresistible fish and chips in the country. But there is a costly downside to living in Scarborough, according to a report from the Social Market Foundation, a thinktank.

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7:13am 5th September 2017
(Updated 11:11am 5th September 2017)
Scarborough is THE bottom local authority for average salaries in the whole of the UK.
That's according to a recent report, published by the Social Market Foundation, which states the average salary in the borough is £19,925.

That's £8,517 less than the national average of £28,442. The report also shows that nine of the bottom 20 authorities were coastal communities.

Last year, average employee gross pay was around £3,600 per annum lower in coastal communities than in other parts of the country.

The report states:

Economic and social deprivation in seaside communities has been much talked about in recent years. There has been widespread belief that the economies of coastal towns have performed poorly relative to the rest of the country, with a lack of well-paid job opportunities for people in these areas. Many point to structural, long standing economic and social problems following the decline of domestic tourism in the UK. Some also point to the fact many coastal communities are poorly connected to major employment centres in the UK, which compounds the difficulties faced by residents in these areas. Not only do they lack job opportunities, but travelling elsewhere for work is also relatively difficult.

Leader of Scarborough Borough Council Derek Bastiman said:

"I'm shocked and dismayed at this statement because as ever, these statements are very often made from a desktop study. I'd like to know on what foundation and basis this report's been founded on. In terms of poor connection to major employment cities, the old chestnut of the A64 raises it's ugly head at every chance. We have to highlight it. However, we have very good rail connections over to the west into York and Leeds etc. The other thing is, it all depends on your place of work and working environment you want to work in. You couldn't want to work in a better place than what Scarborough is for god's sake."

And you can hear the full interview with Councillor Bastiman below:

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Scarborough Has Worst Average Salary In UK

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7:13am 5th September 2017 (Updated 11:11am 5th September 2017) Scarborough is THE bottom local authority for average salaries in the whole of the UK. That's according to a recent report, published by the Social Market Foundation, which states the average salary in the borough is £19,925.

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Regeneration literature for A level Geographers

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GeogFrank

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21st Century Market Town - Regeneration 

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2002 Scarborough Physical & Economic Resources

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2002 Scarborough Physical & Economic Resources

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Regeneration of a Spa Town - deprivation, needs and historical changes

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Regeneration of a Spa Town - deprivation, needs and historical changes

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Community-led Masterplanning of a Seaside Town.pdf