Local government policies aim to represent areas as being attractive for inward investment (Edexcel A-Level Geography): Revision Notes

Local government policies aim to represent areas as being attractive for inward investment

🔗 Local governments aim to represent areas in ways that will attract people to invest in them

Sympathetic Business Environments

Local governments are constantly competing to create environments that are sympathetic to investment and development from foreign investors etc.

📝 Science and technology parks create a hub in which many different companies can be located in an area

What is attractive about science and technology parks?

• Ready-built buildings
• Space for expansion
• Often childcare services on the site
• Gyms
• Restaurants

Local Interest Groups

📝 Chambers of Commerce, Trade unions

Play varying roles in regeneration policies

• Often tension between groups that wish to preserve a place and those that seek change
• Tensions can also be due to changes to the physical fabric and environmental impact of, or the nature of the people attracted to, an area
• Groups may be categorised based on their viewpoints: Historic, environmental, socioeconomic etc
• Normally wealthier areas have the most volunteers involved in local interest groups

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Regeneration Strategies

Urban

Strategy	Explanation & examples
Retail-led	Major shopping malls • 📝 eg. Westfield Street markets • 📝 eg. Cobham Farmers Market
Tourism and leisure led	Historic sites making use of landmark buildings 📝 eg. Belfast's Titanic Quarter Liverpool dock
Sport-led	London olympic and paralympic site Sports city (Manchester)
Art and culture led	European Capitals of culture 📝 eg. Liverpool Artwork • Banksy, Liverpool

Rural

Strategy	Explanation & examples
Tourism and leisure led	Custom built private facilities, 📝 eg. Centre Parcs Encouragement to open B&Bs in villages & on farms
Sport-led	Outdoor activity areas, 📝 eg. GoApe
Art and culture led	Connections w/ famous authors/poets eg. Bronte Country (Yorkshire) Media connections, 📝 eg. Downton Abbey (Highclere Castle), Harry Potter (Alnwick Castle)
Public/private rural diversification	Agriculture-based: ● Producing/selling specialty cheeses ● Farm shops ● Craft-making facilities ● Rural crafts such as dry stone walling Non-agricultural: ● Redundant farm buildings converted to offices ● Camsites ● Clay pigeon shooting, golf ● Developing country parks or annual music & art festivals Environmental ● Planting woodland eg. Kielder Forest ● Eco-villages 📝 eg. Poundbury, Dorest

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