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Creative and Cultural Industries Enquiry

Bob Harris and David Powell


The Future Opportunities and Role for Cultural and Creative Industries in Thames Gateway London
  • Institutions and culture for the new city
  • The challenge of the largest scale opportunities
  • Connecting creative and cultural businesses in TG with the markets
  • The visionary mechanisms to deliver this
The Zones of Change

The TGSP has estimated that there will be 100,000 new houses and 200,000 new jobs as a result of development in the next 15 years.

    There are 14 Zones of Change
    - 6 of these are in the London area.
  • Isle of Dogs
  • Greenwich / Deptford / Lewisham
  • Stratford / Leaside / Royals
  • Greenwich Peninsula / East Greenwich
  • Woolwich / Belvedere / Erith
  • Barking / Havering Riverside
Where will the growth go?

What kind of housing?

What kind of workspace?

Building the Cultural Dividend

    Creative businesses
  • Public realm
  • Cultural institutions
  • Clusters
  • Corners and quarters
    Creative Businesses in Thames Gateway London
  • 2/3rds of the activity in City, Hackney and Tower Hamlets
  • c60-80 000 employed: c16% London’s employment
  • growing less fast than rest of London
  • most businesses micros/small or freelance
  • Main “industrial” sectors include print/publishing; information/computer focussed
  • Small business strengths in design; music; performance; fashion;
  • Large numbers of individual…artists, craftspeople, technicians etc
  • High skill/high qualification workforce
Public Realm

GREEN GRID AND BLUE RIBBON NETWORK

    Cultural institutions
  • Universities –Goldsmiths, Greenwich, QMW, UEL
  • Conservatoires – Laban, Trinity
  • Theatres – Greenwich Stratford, Hornchurch
  • Museums – Design, Maritime, Docklands
  • Arts Centres – Albany, Stratford Circus, Ocean
    Clusters of activity
  • City Fringe
  • Deptford, Creekside and Greenwich
  • Greenwich Peninsula
  • Stratford
  • Isle of Dogs
  • Wapping
  • ……Barking?
  • ……Woolwich?
    New city issues
  • Civic, cultural and institutional centre(s)
  • Multiplicity of sites, projects and developers
  • Multiplicity of Departments and Agencies
  • Public delivery agencies
  • TG subregional
  • UDC
  • Local Authorities
  • Developers site by site
    New city issues #2
  • Quality of Life
  • Quality of education
  • Brand, profile for business, tourism
  • Health, sustainability and reputation of the communities
  • Cultural diversity – the premium?

Cultural diversity – the premium?

Where will it go?

Role of cultural and creative sector ands social inclusion/tackling deprivation

Cultural, Creative, Regeneration Comparators

    Comparators?
  • Berlin East
  • Lille
  • Ruhr Valley
  • Olympic Cities
Lessons from top five US creative cities (R Florida)
San Francisco, Austin, Boston, San Diego, Seattle

What would TG (Eastside) need to do to win City of Culture?
Where else should we be looking?

    Programme/Process
  • Enquiry : June to September 03
  • LDA Creative Industry Commission: autumn 03
  • UDC terms of reference September 03
  • Creative/cultural delivery structure/ programme April 04
  • First round “Sustainable Communities 03-05
    Four Enquiry themes
  • Institutions and culture for the new city
  • The challenge of the largest scale opportunities (Olympics, Dome…)
  • Connecting creative and cultural businesses in TG with the markets
  • The visionary mechanisms to deliver this


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