Saturday, 6 September 2008
Doncaster’s Town Centre, Lakeside & Lower Wheatley neighbourhood – covering an area of 3.5 km2 - has a resident population of just 5716 but is home to over 1500 businesses. The neighbourhood can be naturally divided into three highly distinctive districts.
The Town Centre is Doncaster’s central business district, a major sub-regional shopping centre and the place of employment for tens of thousands of people. Home to the North’s biggest traditional market, the inspiring Minster, Mansion House, theatres, museums and leisure facilities and the focus of significant new development such as the Frenchgate retail scheme, the transport interchange and Doncaster College’s waterfront campus, the Town Centre is the busy commercial and cultural heart of the Borough. The Town Centre’s large daily footfall and its booming evening economy present particular community safety and environmental challenges.
The Lower Wheatley district in the north and east of the neighbourhood - which also includes the ribbon of modern commercial development along the full length of Wheatley Hall Road - is characterised by its densely-packed Victorian terraced housing, much now in multiple occupation, and by the great ethnic and cultural diversity of its population. The indigenous and Asian communities long resident here have been more recently joined by significant numbers of new neighbours from Eastern Europe. This lively district suffers from high unemployment, health problems, poor housing stock and some distinct crime and community safety issues.
In contrast, the Lakeside district to the south of the neighbourhood is one of Doncaster’s flagship development areas, encompassing the recently re-developed Doncaster Racecourse, the Dome leisure complex, the impressive new Keepmoat Stadium and the popular Lakeside Village outlet shopping centre. A relatively affluent district, Lakeside provides Doncaster with an array of stylish modern apartments and new high quality family homes in an attractive waterside setting.
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