Central News: 31.03.1998: Development Corporations

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Summary

Mark Gough reports on the end of the development corporations set up by Margaret Thatcher ten years ago to breathe life into decaying industrial areas.

Year:

1998

Duration:

0:01:54

Film type:

Colour / Sound

Company:

Central Television

Master format:

LTO6

Description

From tonight the role of regeneration will return to local councils as all the development corporations are being disbanded. The Black Country Development Corporation was one of the most important and most successful. Views of the new Tividale Quays housing development which was built on reclaimed industrial land at Tipton and a Mark Gough piece to camera from the site which includes a newly dug canal. Interview with Rebecca Saunders who was the first person to move into Tividale Quays. Interview with George Carter of the Black Country Development Corporation who said they had built over 3,000 houses on reclaimed land. Library shots of Margaret Thatcher visiting the Black Country Development Corporation. Interview with Sir Reginald Eyre of Heartlands Development in Birmingham about the enormous improvement to housing. Views of low-rise housing on the Heartlands site. View of a site in the Black Country where a new cooking oil factory is under construction. Interview with Austrian Businessman Wolfgang Schoibel who operates from the Britannia Park, a business park on reclaimed land who said companies from all over Europe used the premises. Shot of the entrance to Britannia Park.


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