2. Birmingham: Longbridge urban regeneration
Brownfield site - Longbridge, Birmingham
Good times
● 100 years of car manufacture
● 1965 340,000 cars produced by 25,000 works - local
and regional multiplier effect e.g. Dunlop tyres (2
mils away)
● Overseas competition - closure 2005
RESULT - dereliction + spiral of decline
Brownfield site - Longbridge, Birmingham
● 2000 homes - social & local ME
● 1000 jobs - economic ME
● £70m town cenre - social & economic ME
● Technology Park + Bournville College - link through
innovation and Dragons!
● Distribution centre - economic ME
● ↓ pressure on greenbelt
Problems
House prices may ↑, congestion on local roads