Someone quoted this on FB. Poorest areas in the UK?

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What on earth has happened to Blackpool?

As a Scot, It wasn't the list I expected to see, but I'm not familiar with most of the areas.

Top twenty most deprived regions in the UK
Tendring- around St Osyth and Seawick
Blackpool- the Area near The Central Pier
Blackpool- Around the Promenade by the North Pier
Thanet- In Cliftonville West
Blackpool- in the Region by the South Pier
Tendring- in the Area by Clacton-On-The-Sea
Blackpool- in the Region That Falls between Waterloo Road and St Chad’s Station
Coventry- In the Area around Hillmorton Road In Henly
Blackpool- In Woolman Road As Well As Clinton Avenue
Waveney- In the Location of the South Pier in Lowestoft
Blackpool-Around the Cookson Street
Kingston upon Hull- near St John’s Grove
North East Lincolnshire- In the Area That Is Around Oxford Street in Grimsby
Burnley- The Area That Falls On Tay Street and Howard Street
Burnley- The Region That Lies Between Belvedere Road and the Church Street
Mansfield- In Sandy Lane
Blackpool- In Carshalton Road As Well As Clevedon Road
Blackburn with Darwen- The Region of Wensley Fold
Great Yarmouth- By the Seafront

livingwagecommission.org.uk/poorest-uk-places/?fbclid=IwAR0odmiACZUqlzXmlrhpAAiVKFLCmuO8Ih8wJDjqm4lzh4Ntrl3Nf2CdDe8

What happened to Blackpool was career benefit claimants realised they could get their benefit money wherever hey lived so they might as we’ll be by the sea and all the cheap pubs that come with it.

Blackpool was thriving decades ago as a resort. With cheaper foreign travel, it lost almost all of its income. It was then just hen & stag parties - but again you can go somewhere much nicer for not much more money. Geographically, it's not well connected, kind of out of a peninsula and no real industry so not desirable. The spiral / decline is then high unemployment / poverty / has a real drug problem.

It's been like that for a very long time.
I live nearby

Blackpool’s been in decline for a good few decades.

Poorest areas in the UK?
I think that list is England only and didn't include Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I don’t have the answer to this, but I have a real fondness for Blackpool. We go about once a year for the Pleasure Beach & the big Waterpark. I wish it was doing better

I’m surprised there are no Welsh towns there?

@Thebusiness Gosh yes - Rhyl has a similar vibe to Blackpool but is always deserted , like a ghost town - literally all you will see are heroin users scuttling around in the shadows.

Poorest areas in the UK?
I think that list is England only and didn't include Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I think you're correct. They have made all of these claims on the page I linked to and seem to confused between what is an island, a country and a political union.

'The Poorest UK Places'
'..east of Jaywick near Clacton-on-Sea is the most deprived region in the country.'
'Top twenty most deprived regions in the UK'
'holds for Britain’s five million low paid workers'

Still, I have fond memories of beach holidays in Blackpool. It saddens me that it's so reduced now.

It’s a well known trend that struggling English (and some Welsh) seaside towns can go into a spiral of decline for a variety of interrelated reasons. The schools in places like Great Yarmouth get shocking results.

Hastings didn’t make the list? Hopefully with staycations becoming popular these seaside towns will benefit from a much needed revival and a boost in revenue and employment opportunities.

Yes Blackpool grim, another thread about it going on but Jaywick is shocking....I showed a Spanish friend some pics online and asked him to guess where it was....He suggested it was a gypsy slum area in slovakia or romania or bulgaria and was really shocked it was in the UK !..There are plans to improve it.

The deprivation struggle of some coastal towns has been in the news a lot over the years. The reasons @Africa2go gives are applicable to my local town (on list) but Blackpool is much larger.

It doesn't help matters that a lot of the population is transient; work is seasonal and there are places you can rent without any references etc ( handy if you've just come out of prison, for example). Couple of decades ago my home city would have been top of that list, but Blackpool has sadly been going downhill for years.

@Roselilly36 we visit Hastings regularly from Greater London. It has really come up over the years, particularly the Old Town. It has quite an affluent feel now, and lots of people from London are moving there (we could buy a huge house by the sea for the cost of our tiny one!!). I’m sure there is still poverty like all seaside towns but as a seaside resort it seems quite booming. We love visiting!

Sorry totally missed the point of the thread!! Yes Blackpool is a dump now and has totally lost out to cheap foreign travel. No area in the UK should have the poverty described, it is bad for ALL of us.

Its not really clear what this is based on.
Is it solely on how many low paid workers are in the area with no consideration into cost of living?

I'm surprised there aren't many southern towns on the list. After all minimum wage goes further when you can rent somewhere for £500pcm opposed to having to pay £1000pcm.

If it's based on wages it doesn't really surprise me about Blackpool. It's not really a commuter location, and most the local jobs are in hospitality.

network.streetgames.org/resource/areas-deprivation-postcode

You can look at them here for Scotland and England, maybe Wales too.

I think that list is England only and didn't include Scotland

I suspect it's possible that the 20 most deprived postcodes in the UK are all in England. We've had 10 years of Tory government and while they do provide some targeted funding it's targeted at winnable seats.

I was brought up in a thriving East Yorkshire seaside town - great place to grow up, donkeys on the beach, boating lake near the seafront, amusements and goodie shops.. playparks, lido... lots of summer jobs and a thriving local economy . Now when I go back I just feel a sense of sadness to see that all the local shops have been replaced by pound shops, betting shops and mobility scooter places and the holiday makers are no more. It is just a very poor, deprived and run down little town with no jobs, no transport connections and not somewhere I would ever want to live or bring up kids. It would take a very long essay to explain how it came to this but this has happened to a lot of seaside resorts up and down the country.

There are lots of reasons seaside towns can be/tend to be poorer areas or have poorer residents.

I remember asking this question years ago & being told that quite apart from the low paid seasonal work on offer, seaside towns were a magnet for people trying to escape their problems in life. Problems such as, depression, mental illness, alcohol or other substance abuse etc etc. The idea being that a person is desperately unhappy in life so moves to the place where they have the happiest memories - often the seaside where they had holidays in better times.

I don’t know if that is a big contributing factor or not, but it does make sense.

It looks at deprivation so northern places are more likely to be on than the south as theres less opportunity.

Generalisation btw, but certain areas do get much more funding than others. Northern Powerhouse is always around Manchester/Leeds etc rather than further north. South is more London/commuter belt focussed.

I've heard similar to@CoffeeRunner.
People having a hard time or who went through a traumatic childhood may have a memory of nice caravan holidays, so that's where they gravitate to. I think I learned that on some training about gambling related harm but it holds true for other deprivation such as drug use, alcoholism, etc.