Editing Tameside (section)

==Economy==
[[File:Ikea Ashton-under-Lyne 2008.jpg|thumb|right|[[IKEA]]'s store in Ashton-under-Lyne, which opened in 2006, was their first in a town centre.]]
Tameside is currently undergoing redevelopment through the Vision Tameside project which should be completed by 2018.

Vision Tameside – a partnership between Tameside council and Tameside College – is a redevelopment strategy.

Three "advanced learning centres" are being built in central Ashton town and at the college's Beaufort Road home.{{citation needed|date=June 2018}}

Phase one comprises two sites. The new Clarendon Sixth Form College, which began taking students in the autumn of 2015, was officially opened by Coronation Street actress Brooke Vincent on 9 March 2016. The college theatre was named in Brooke's honour.

An "advanced technologies centre" is being built on Stamford Street, Ashton. When it opens in 2017 it will provide a learning facility to support the growth of advanced engineering and technology in Tameside.

Phase two of VisionTameside will create an advanced skills centre for Tameside College alongside a new joint service centre for Tameside Council and partners. The skills centre will provide facilities for students studying a wide range of vocational subjects including hair and beauty, hospitality and catering, bakery and confectionery, travel and tourism and business skills.

Ashton's Victorian town hall and the old water board offices, which are both listed buildings, are being retained. Work should be completed in early 2018.

Phase three will ensure the Beaufort Road campus offers learners modern, inspirational learning spaces. Alongside the new advanced technologies centre, they will have access to facilities for engineering, construction and the built environment, motor-vehicle, sport and public services and health and social care provision

Provision for students with severe learning difficulties and/or disabilities will continue to be based at the Beaufort Road where a new sports academy was opened in February, 2015, by former Manchester United and England footballer Paul Scholes.

In addition, Ashton's old public baths, which lay derelict for many years, has been reborn as a "high-tech business incubator" with help from the European Regional Development Fund and the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Work at the mid-Victorian building, which closed as a swimming baths in 1975, has involved cleaning, repairs and the replacement of external stonework. The new office space is housed inside a free-standing timber-clad pod within the former main pool.

At the same time, Ashton's market has been refurbished with the installation of kiosks alongside traditional stalls.

The [[Ashton Arcades]] shopping centre opened in 1995. The centre covers {{convert|13000|m2|sqft}} on two floors with over 40 shops. In 2006, after failing twice to gain permission to develop a site in the neighbouring borough of [[Metropolitan Borough of Stockport|Stockport]], [[IKEA]] announced plans to build its first town centre-store in Ashton-under-Lyne. The store is expected to create 500 new jobs as well as attract other businesses to the area.<ref>{{cite news|title=Ikea's superstore plans approved|work=BBC Online|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/4604024.stm|date=11 January 2006}}; retrieved 3 September 2008.</ref> The store opened on 19 October 2006 and covers {{convert|27500|m2|sqft}} At the time of its creation, the store was the tallest in Britain.<ref>{{cite web|title=IKEA's finally here|work=[[Manchester Evening News]]|url=http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/lifestyle/health_and_beauty/style/s/225/225588_ikeas_finally_here.html|author=Emma Unsworth|date=16 October 2006}} Retrieved on 3&nbsp;September 2008.</ref>

Life science industries have been identified as growth industries in Greater Manchester and are concentrated in Oldham and Tameside.<ref>{{cite web|title=Promoting a Dynamic Economy |publisher=Greater Manchester e-Government Partnership |url=http://www.gmep.org.uk/ccm/content/agma/promoting-a-dynamic-economy.en;jsessionid=64C7688F205BEE012F17A5E3001818D5 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20080112085728/http://www.gmep.org.uk/ccm/content/agma/promoting-a-dynamic-economy.en;jsessionid=64C7688F205BEE012F17A5E3001818D5 |archive-date=2008-01-12 }}; retrieved 4 September 2008.</ref>

Average house prices in Tameside are the 5th lowest of the ten boroughs in Greater Manchester and are prices just 60% of the average price for the England.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-house-price-index-england-may-2019/uk-house-price-index-england-may-2019|title=UK House Price Index England: May 2019|date=19 July 2019|website=Gov.uk|access-date=9 August 2019}}</ref>

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!colspan="4"|'''Tameside Compared'''
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|'''[[United Kingdom census, 2011|2011 UK Census]]'''||'''Tameside'''||'''Greater Manchester'''||'''England'''
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|Population of working age||161,459||940,438||38,881,374
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|Full-time employment||40.6%||31.6%||38.6%
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|Part-time employment||13.2%||19.6%||13.7%
|-
|Self employed||7.4%||4.1%||9.8%
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|Unemployed||5.0%||3.8%||4.4%
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|Retired||14.7%||14.6%||13.7%
|}
At the 2011 UK census, Tameside had 161,459 residents aged 16 to 74. 4.3% of these people were students, 4.0% looking after home or family, 6.2% long-term sick or disabled and 2.2% economically inactive for other reasons.<ref name=":0" />

In 2011, of 101,892 residents of Tameside in employment, the industry of employment was 17.7% retail and wholesale, 13.2% manufacturing, 12.4% health and social work, 8.5% construction, 8.3% education, 5.8% public administration and defence, 5.3% transport, 5.0% professional, scientific and technical, 4.8% administrative, 4.5% hotels and restaurants, 4.1% financial, 2.4% information and communication, 1.7% real estate, 1.6% energy and water supply, and 4.5% others.<ref name=":0" />
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