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What's new public facilities were built? (3) |
Are sailing on watersports Centre, a shopping complex (Surrey Quays), five new health centres were built an existing ones were refurbished |
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How has education in the area improved? |
New schools and colleges were built and existing schools were improved, by buying new IT equipment |
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How did the Docklands provide a pleasant environment for local residents? |
During refurbishment new outdoor spaces were created |
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What did this include? |
Which includes an ecology park at Bow Creek and the windfowl sanctuary at East India Dock |
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Redevelopment of the Docklands caused reorganisation and since… |
1980 the population has doubled |
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Why is there conflict between original residents and new residence? |
Because some of the original residents felt that the London Docklands development corporation favoured luxury developments rather than affordable housing |
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Why were many of the original residents unable to find work in new businesses? |
Because they would generally be skilled positions in the service industry e.g. banking and are not qualified for this type of work |
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In what year and what percentage of people in Docklands were either on skilled or semiskilled? |
1981, 36% one skill/semiskilled |
