请输入您要查询的百科知识:

 

词条 Black Country Development Corporation
释义

  1. References

{{Infobox Organization
|name = Black Country Development Corporation
|image =
|image_border =
|size =
|caption =
|map =
|msize =
|mcaption =
|motto =
|formation = 1987
|extinction = 1998
|type =
|headquarters = Sandwell, Walsall
|location =
|membership =
|language = English
|leader_title = Chair
|leader_name = Sir William Francis
George Carter
|key_people = David Morgan
|num_staff =
|budget =
|website =
}}

The Black Country Development Corporation was an urban development corporation established in May 1987[1] to develop land in the Metropolitan Boroughs of Sandwell and Walsall in England.

Its flagship developments included the Black Country Spine Road. During its lifetime 11.9m sq.ft. of non-housing development and 3,774 housing units were built. Around 21,440 new jobs were created and some £1,150m of private finance was leveraged in. Circa {{convert|988|acre|km2}} of derelict land was reclaimed and {{convert|24|mi|km}} of new road and footpaths put in place.[2] The Chairman was Sir William Francis and, subsequently, George Carter and the Chief Executive was David Morgan. It was dissolved in 1998.[3]

The Black Country Spine Road was notable for providing the area around Wednesbury with a dual carriageway as well as reducing congestion on the narrower roads which surrounded it. The new road, which was opened in two phases in 1995, also freed up several square miles of previously inaccessible land which was soon developed for industrial and commercial use.

References

1. ^{{cite book|author=Michael C. R. Davies|title=Land Reclamation: An End to Dereliction?|year=1991|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=1-85166-658-3}}
2. ^National Audit Office report dated 27 February 2002.
3. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/953/article/2/made|title=The Urban Development Corporations in England (Dissolution) Order 1998|website=www.legislation.gov.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-08-28}}

9 : Sandwell|Walsall|Organizations established in 1987|Organizations disestablished in 1998|Organisations based in the West Midlands (county)|History of the West Midlands (county)|Defunct public bodies of the United Kingdom|Development Corporations of the United Kingdom|Black Country

随便看

 

开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识,基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识,是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。

 

Copyright © 2023 OENC.NET All Rights Reserved
京ICP备2021023879号 更新时间:2024/11/11 14:13:12