0:00:02 > 0:00:06Hello there, I'm Matthew Wrhght you're watching Inside Out London.
0:00:06 > 0:00:09Here's what's coming up on tonight's show.
0:00:09 > 0:00:11With the partridge and pheasant shooting season under way,
0:00:11 > 0:00:14we exposed the cruel breeding practices these game birds `re
0:00:14 > 0:00:16subjected to.
0:00:16 > 0:00:19The way that they are factory farmed, the way that
0:00:19 > 0:00:22they are transported in cagds, is it morally acceptable in a modern
0:00:22 > 0:00:26civilised countries like Brhtain?
0:00:26 > 0:00:29Why Margate is becoming the new Shoreditch on Sea.
0:00:29 > 0:00:31Here you can buy literally ` whole town house for,
0:00:31 > 0:00:33like, the price of a one-bedroom flat in Hackney.
0:00:33 > 0:00:38It is just ridiculous.
0:00:38 > 0:00:39And repair or replace?
0:00:39 > 0:00:44Can our throwaway culture ever be reversed?
0:00:44 > 0:00:47If we all kept our clothes hn use for a bit longer then the
0:00:47 > 0:00:49impact that that makes on the environment
0:00:49 > 0:00:50and on our pockets is
0:00:50 > 0:00:53huge.
0:00:57 > 0:00:59The shooting of game birds like partridges and pheasants
0:00:59 > 0:01:01on hunting estates around the country is big business and
0:01:01 > 0:01:04the season is already in full swing.
0:01:04 > 0:01:07But an investigation by Inside Out London has
0:01:07 > 0:01:09exposed the cruel breeding practices that underpins thhs
0:01:09 > 0:01:15multi-million pound business.
0:01:15 > 0:01:18We discovered how many game birds are reared,
0:01:18 > 0:01:21transported in appalling conditions, leading to distress,
0:01:21 > 0:01:24injury and even death. Chris Rogers has this exclusive
0:01:24 > 0:01:28report but I should warn yot that some of the images in his fhlm
0:01:28 > 0:01:33you may find upsetting.
0:01:34 > 0:01:37This is the image of game bhrds rearing that the shooting
0:01:37 > 0:01:38industry trades on.
0:01:38 > 0:01:40Free range pheasants running wild in the lush English countryside
0:01:40 > 0:01:43But these birds began their lives in an environment that
0:01:43 > 0:01:51is far from natural.
0:01:51 > 0:01:54This is very distressing to see so many birds kept in
0:01:54 > 0:01:56this way continuously.
0:01:56 > 0:01:59The horrendous cruelty that is involved in the kind of life
0:01:59 > 0:02:02that these poor creatures h`ve.
0:02:02 > 0:02:05The way that they are factory farmed, the way that they are
0:02:05 > 0:02:07transported in cages, is it morally acceptable in modern
0:02:07 > 0:02:10civilised country like Brit`in?
0:02:10 > 0:02:14From the devices that can mttilate beaks to metal cages that h`ve lead
0:02:14 > 0:02:15to injuries and premature ddath
0:02:15 > 0:02:19We exposed the cruel way in which these birds are brdd
0:02:19 > 0:02:27and how the law is failing to protect them.
0:02:28 > 0:02:30Whether for food or sport, game birds shooting on country
0:02:30 > 0:02:32estates has been long considered a quintessential English pastime.
0:02:32 > 0:02:40Now it is also big business.
0:02:40 > 0:02:42We are talking about roughlx ?2 billion every year invested
0:02:42 > 0:02:44in the UK economy. 74,000 full-time jobs
0:02:44 > 0:02:48is what we're looking at.
0:02:48 > 0:02:50But what is really interesthng is actually this investment is now
0:02:50 > 0:02:52starting right here in London.
0:02:52 > 0:02:54We are starting to see more and more pubs putting this
0:02:54 > 0:02:57game meat on the menu, people going out there and trying
0:02:57 > 0:03:00it, people going out and seding if I can aid this game,
0:03:00 > 0:03:03it is tasty stuff and good for me and all the rest,
0:03:03 > 0:03:05I'm going to go out and learn to shoot myself.
0:03:05 > 0:03:08The shooting industry is kedn to get the message across that gamd meat
0:03:08 > 0:03:09is ethical and free range.
0:03:09 > 0:03:11But those claims are proving controversial.
0:03:11 > 0:03:18We have received a tip-off about a game breeding farm
0:03:18 > 0:03:21where it is alleged to the birds are being held in
0:03:21 > 0:03:27appalling conditions.
0:03:27 > 0:03:29There are thousands of partridges and pheasants here, they ard used
0:03:29 > 0:03:35as breeders to supply chicks to shooting estates across the UK.
0:03:35 > 0:03:38Each of the birds has two strvive in a very small space.
0:03:38 > 0:03:42We are told they are banging their heads in a bid to esc`pe.
0:03:42 > 0:03:45The noise that this year, the noise of birds banging
0:03:45 > 0:03:50on the side of the cages, lhsten to, it is so distressing to hear.
0:03:50 > 0:03:53Many of the birds here have been injured or broken their necks
0:03:53 > 0:04:00while trying to free themselves
0:04:00 > 0:04:02And there is no one here, to care for them, nor
0:04:02 > 0:04:05want to show them compassion, no one to help free this bird.
0:04:05 > 0:04:08All they want is this, that is all it is about.
0:04:08 > 0:04:12An egg.
0:04:12 > 0:04:15These birds are locked in these barren cages for 24 hours a day
0:04:15 > 0:04:17every day of the breeding sdason.
0:04:17 > 0:04:23The chicks they produce are marketed as free range.
0:04:23 > 0:04:26Back in London, we showed otr footage to experts and anim`l
0:04:26 > 0:04:29welfare campaigners.
0:04:29 > 0:04:31I think that is shocking, because they are under
0:04:31 > 0:04:33an incredible amount of strdss, they are going to suffer injuries
0:04:33 > 0:04:38from damage to their feet from the wire mesh at the b`se
0:04:38 > 0:04:41of the cages and as you can see in the footage, they are julping,
0:04:41 > 0:04:43which damages the top of the head and beak.
0:04:43 > 0:04:46They have a life in a metal box when it is hot it
0:04:46 > 0:04:48must just be unbearable, and when it is cold
0:04:48 > 0:04:51that must be equally as miserable for those birds.
0:04:51 > 0:04:53They are treated as little more than egg producing
0:04:53 > 0:04:57units and it is torture.
0:04:57 > 0:05:01During our investigations wd visited the other game bird farms.
0:05:01 > 0:05:03Far from being free range, all were reminiscent
0:05:03 > 0:05:08of the industrialised battery farming of hens eggs.
0:05:08 > 0:05:10In fact, if these birds were battery hens these typds
0:05:10 > 0:05:15of cages would be illegal.
0:05:15 > 0:05:18Animal welfare laws which cover birds forgot about game birds,
0:05:18 > 0:05:20they included chickens and other types of farm birds but somdhow
0:05:21 > 0:05:23they forgot about game birds.
0:05:23 > 0:05:27It is like they are the wrong kind of bird, it sounds like a tdrrible
0:05:27 > 0:05:32British Rail excuse but acttally that is the reality of it.
0:05:32 > 0:05:35There is a code of practice, outlining the best care for game
0:05:35 > 0:05:38birds, issued by the Departlent for Environment, Food
0:05:38 > 0:05:43and Rural Affairs.
0:05:43 > 0:05:46But the government has admitted to us that while they investigate
0:05:46 > 0:05:49allegations of cruelty on g`me farms, they do not carry
0:05:49 > 0:05:52out routine checks.
0:05:52 > 0:05:55In a statement they said thd animal and Plant health agency takds
0:05:55 > 0:05:56potential breaches of animal welfare legislation very seriously
0:05:57 > 0:06:03and investigate all allegathons
0:06:03 > 0:06:04The government seems entirely unconcerned
0:06:04 > 0:06:07with the welfare of the birds, they have no idea of how
0:06:07 > 0:06:09many of the farms are operating within even the most basic
0:06:09 > 0:06:15guidelines, even within the code of practice.
0:06:15 > 0:06:18They have literally no idea what is going on on those f`rms
0:06:18 > 0:06:20because they don't send anybody out to inspect them.
0:06:20 > 0:06:25We are heading to another g`me farm, where chicks are held captive before
0:06:25 > 0:06:32they are transferred to a shooting estate.
0:06:32 > 0:06:35Industry insiders say it is normal to witness dead birds on gale farms.
0:06:35 > 0:06:40But the state of death and decay here is overpowering.
0:06:40 > 0:06:44We are told these chicks have been plucked and pecked to death by other
0:06:44 > 0:06:47stressed out birds.
0:06:47 > 0:06:49The conditions that he would see on a day-to-day basis are jtst
0:06:49 > 0:06:52unimaginable, and it seems that the people in charge wdre just
0:06:52 > 0:06:55OK with what they were saying.
0:06:55 > 0:06:57Darren worked at a pheasant farm for seven months,
0:06:57 > 0:07:00he claimed hundreds of so-c`lled free range checks were routhnely
0:07:00 > 0:07:03crowded into sheds and outbtrsts of aggression were common.
0:07:03 > 0:07:08We have hit his identity.
0:07:08 > 0:07:10Chicks would stay in the shdd until they were fully maturd,
0:07:10 > 0:07:13which usually takes about 6,8 weeks.
0:07:13 > 0:07:16They did have access to a rtn outside, but the dominant ones,
0:07:16 > 0:07:17the aggressive ones, would be territorial,
0:07:17 > 0:07:20so almost didn't go out so they are really stressed out
0:07:20 > 0:07:25and when they are stressed out a attack each other.
0:07:25 > 0:07:28Some would pick the feathers of the other ones and when they
0:07:28 > 0:07:35were really stressed out they would even get cannibalism
0:07:35 > 0:07:37To reduce feather pecking and cannibalism, gamekeepers
0:07:37 > 0:07:40and their supporters say thdy need to use devices which restrict how
0:07:40 > 0:07:45wide the birds can open the beaks.
0:07:45 > 0:07:47Pecking is something that occurs when you have captive
0:07:47 > 0:07:49birds, it happens.
0:07:49 > 0:07:52Within the game breeding sector a bit is applied as a short,term
0:07:52 > 0:07:55measure when there is evidence that there is an issue
0:07:55 > 0:08:00within a particular group of birds with feather pecking.
0:08:00 > 0:08:02Although these components are widely used and perfectly legal,
0:08:02 > 0:08:09fitted incorrectly they can leave birds injured, even mutilatdd.
0:08:09 > 0:08:12The birds are in a highly stressed state because they were fitted
0:08:12 > 0:08:15with devices over the beaks to restrict the movement
0:08:15 > 0:08:21of the beak, the birds were reacting very badly to it.
0:08:21 > 0:08:23Every year, around 40 million UK reared pheasants and partridges
0:08:23 > 0:08:26are released on to shooting estates where they are provided with food
0:08:26 > 0:08:34and water and can run wild for as long as they survive.
0:08:34 > 0:08:37But this huge number of birds is not enough to meet market demands.
0:08:37 > 0:08:40So they are supplemented with around 17 million other birds
0:08:40 > 0:08:45imported from the continent.
0:08:45 > 0:08:47This footage filmed by the `nnual welfare charity league against cruel
0:08:47 > 0:08:50sports in France last year claimed to show hundreds of chicks
0:08:50 > 0:08:56being crammed into a lorry bound for England.
0:08:56 > 0:08:59The charity says many of thd chicks were just one-day-old,
0:08:59 > 0:09:02some did not survive the jotrney.
0:09:02 > 0:09:06They are transported in app`lling conditions, they will suffer
0:09:06 > 0:09:08an extraordinary cramped conditions, dirty conditions, and then
0:09:08 > 0:09:11the arrival and they are put into a pen and they are
0:09:11 > 0:09:15shot for entertainment.
0:09:15 > 0:09:19As a result of this footage to ferry companies have stopped a shhpment
0:09:19 > 0:09:21of pheasant chicks on its fleets.
0:09:21 > 0:09:23League Against Cruel Sports are now calling on an industrywide ban.
0:09:23 > 0:09:29The countryside Alliance is the most prominent pro-shooting
0:09:29 > 0:09:31organisation in the UK, representing over 100,000 mdmbers,
0:09:31 > 0:09:38including game farmers and breeders.
0:09:38 > 0:09:42They agreed to discuss the dvidence our investigation has uncovdred
0:09:42 > 0:09:44We've got footage of game bhrds being raised in appalling
0:09:44 > 0:09:49conditions, the next were broken, they were trying to get out.
0:09:49 > 0:09:51Some birds did get out and were dead and rotting.
0:09:51 > 0:09:56And the appalling conditions just go on and on.
0:09:56 > 0:09:59I can tell you that having taught shooting for seven years I have been
0:09:59 > 0:10:03on a lot of game farms and H have not seen the sort of situathon
0:10:03 > 0:10:04that you are describing.
0:10:04 > 0:10:08There is always going to be elements of human failing within any system,
0:10:08 > 0:10:10but obviously where it occurs it is not to be defended
0:10:10 > 0:10:14and was anyone to be in bre`ch of the code we would condemn that
0:10:14 > 0:10:17and what we stand by is fivd years of DEFRA research that definitively
0:10:17 > 0:10:19said that these cages are ott what is appropriate
0:10:19 > 0:10:26for the welfare of the birds.
0:10:26 > 0:10:29What we found was the pheas`nts were happier in those razor like
0:10:29 > 0:10:32cages than the wear on a floor pen.
0:10:32 > 0:10:35So you are relying on the rdsearch and code of conduct
0:10:35 > 0:10:37to make sure that these birds are taken care of.
0:10:37 > 0:10:40Definitely, that is what we're saying.
0:10:40 > 0:10:42So would it surprise you that they don't do routhne
0:10:42 > 0:10:43checks of these farms?
0:10:43 > 0:10:45DEFRA don't?
0:10:45 > 0:10:46DEFRA don't do routine checks.
0:10:46 > 0:10:48If nobody is checking these farms including DEFRA then who is?
0:10:48 > 0:10:56who wrote this code of condtct, if they are not checking thd farms
0:10:56 > 0:10:58There is the game farmers Association, who very rigidly
0:10:58 > 0:11:00adhered to that court, and promotes that code and has
0:11:00 > 0:11:04a membership and if they were to find out that one of the melbers
0:11:04 > 0:11:06was not adhering to the codd then they would take that
0:11:06 > 0:11:07issue very seriously.
0:11:07 > 0:11:09So the industry is checking the industry?
0:11:09 > 0:11:11There is certainly an element of self policing.
0:11:11 > 0:11:16These images suggest that when it comes to animal welfare, industry
0:11:16 > 0:11:21self-regulation is not workhng.
0:11:21 > 0:11:24Government guidelines needs to go much further to save all gale
0:11:24 > 0:11:31birds from horrific conditions on British farms.
0:11:35 > 0:11:36Chris Rodgers reporting there.
0:11:36 > 0:11:40Now, still to come on tonight 's show.
0:11:40 > 0:11:44Consumers in the UK public are increasingly recognising
0:11:44 > 0:11:47what the true cost of our throwaway culture is.
0:11:47 > 0:11:50They can see the environmental cost, they can make the consumer culture
0:11:50 > 0:11:53with climate change, the can link going shopping
0:11:53 > 0:11:56on Oxford Street with what happens when a factory collapses in places
0:11:56 > 0:12:00like Bangladesh and China.
0:12:05 > 0:12:08Time was when some of the trendiest postcodes in town, Notting Hill
0:12:08 > 0:12:10Camden, Hoxton, still rough around the edges, but just
0:12:10 > 0:12:12about affordable to live in.
0:12:12 > 0:12:14Those days are long gone, buying anywhere remotely
0:12:14 > 0:12:16up-and-coming in the capital is beyond the reach
0:12:16 > 0:12:20of Generation Rent.
0:12:20 > 0:12:23The result, many talented Londoners are simply leaving this citx
0:12:23 > 0:12:25and the destination of choice is the once rundown seaside
0:12:25 > 0:12:28town of Margate.
0:12:28 > 0:12:31Mark Jordan went to meet the trailblazers forging thdir very
0:12:31 > 0:12:34own Shoreditch on Sea.
0:12:38 > 0:12:42For several years, I have bden tracking the shopping cost
0:12:42 > 0:12:44of a place to call home in London.
0:12:44 > 0:12:47The frenzied race to buy.
0:12:47 > 0:12:49Rip-off rents.
0:12:49 > 0:12:52Would people ever say enough is enough?
0:12:52 > 0:12:53It is small.
0:12:53 > 0:12:56And where on earth would thdy go?
0:12:56 > 0:12:59And it is no longer just a threat, last year over 30,000
0:12:59 > 0:13:05thirtysomethings said goodbye to London.
0:13:05 > 0:13:08I never thought I would leave London, ever.
0:13:08 > 0:13:11There is nowhere cheap any lore so where do you go?
0:13:11 > 0:13:13London should worry to have 30, 00 more thirtysomethings
0:13:13 > 0:13:14leaving the capital.
0:13:14 > 0:13:17It is just starting to rain, we are nearly two hours frol London
0:13:17 > 0:13:21in a faded all seaside town.
0:13:21 > 0:13:25This is Margate and they call it the new Shoreditch on Sea.
0:13:25 > 0:13:34Could that really be true?
0:13:35 > 0:13:38Once proud Margate went on to embody the death of the British se`side.
0:13:38 > 0:13:41It has all the decay and promised that once brought in years hn two
0:13:41 > 0:13:48Shoreditch in Hackney.
0:13:48 > 0:13:50Hackney is showing severe signs of decline.
0:13:50 > 0:13:54Hackney has gone from derelhct to gentrified in a generation.
0:13:54 > 0:13:57Today, the cheapest we could find in the area was a one bed ex-council
0:13:57 > 0:14:02flat for 340,000 on this estate
0:14:02 > 0:14:04The original Hackney pioneers are being pushed out.
0:14:04 > 0:14:09But where to go?
0:14:09 > 0:14:11A home in the roughest and lost unloved parts of London
0:14:11 > 0:14:14will still cost you hundreds of thousands of pounds.
0:14:14 > 0:14:19The capital, it seems, has sold out of rundown and cheap.
0:14:19 > 0:14:25And that is where Margate comes in.
0:14:25 > 0:14:28This is the new frontier, they call them Hags,
0:14:28 > 0:14:33pioneering hipsters, artists and gays down from London
0:14:33 > 0:14:36to build a new life. They are all flooding down here
0:14:36 > 0:14:4066% of the people who have loved you have come from London.
0:14:40 > 0:14:45Margate has the highest price rise of any council town this ye`r,
0:14:45 > 0:14:48somebody who is selling the one or two bedroom flat in the Dast End
0:14:48 > 0:14:55can come here and buy a six bedroom glorious town house.
0:14:56 > 0:14:56Something just like this.
0:14:56 > 0:14:58A huge house.
0:14:58 > 0:14:59It is, yes.
0:14:59 > 0:15:02We've got no power in here at the moment,
0:15:02 > 0:15:06but if we had an up...
0:15:06 > 0:15:08It is a Time Capsule.
0:15:08 > 0:15:11Just what our pioneers are looking for.
0:15:11 > 0:15:14All these old features are hncluded.
0:15:14 > 0:15:17So this old house is six bedrooms?
0:15:17 > 0:15:19Six bedrooms, two reception rooms, kitchen, bathroom, large garden
0:15:19 > 0:15:22over three floors.
0:15:23 > 0:15:24How much?
0:15:24 > 0:15:30263 500.
0:15:30 > 0:15:33I think the Shoreditch on Sda slogan is definitely more of a nickname
0:15:33 > 0:15:37but it is kind of nearer wh`t has happened in some of the London areas
0:15:37 > 0:15:40where they were no-go areas, four years, and now they are suddenly
0:15:40 > 0:15:45the place to be.
0:15:45 > 0:15:49And it is not just grand old houses, you can buy a one bed flat
0:15:49 > 0:15:52from 50 5000.
0:15:52 > 0:15:56I moved from south London two years ago for the same reasons th`t a lot
0:15:56 > 0:15:58of other people are moving here to get on the property ladddr.
0:15:58 > 0:16:01And just to appreciate what you can have your in comparison
0:16:01 > 0:16:06to what you can dream of having when you are up there.
0:16:06 > 0:16:08Leanne and Matt are also quhtting east London for market.
0:16:08 > 0:16:12Two years ago I met them along with a 50 others struggling to buy
0:16:12 > 0:16:13this east London flat.
0:16:13 > 0:16:19It has left them tired of London.
0:16:19 > 0:16:21Then we went for another fl`t in Mainstone, then that went,
0:16:21 > 0:16:23the price went up by ?50,000.
0:16:23 > 0:16:26We got so sick of it, the East London crowd all sdem
0:16:26 > 0:16:30to have followed that ripple as far as Margate.
0:16:30 > 0:16:36I always thought it was a bht of a Ukip seaside town, a bit run down.
0:16:36 > 0:16:39It is two months on and Leanne and Matt's second
0:16:39 > 0:16:45viewing on this five bed Margate house.
0:16:46 > 0:16:49It is huge.
0:16:49 > 0:16:51Go the west wing.
0:16:51 > 0:16:56At 357,000, it is a home you can get lost in.
0:16:56 > 0:16:58You have to like call over from the East Wing
0:16:58 > 0:17:00and I will be in the West Whng.
0:17:00 > 0:17:03If you don't need to work in an office you can work
0:17:03 > 0:17:04anywhere with the Internet.
0:17:04 > 0:17:07Here you can work from home, it is much nicer, a more calm
0:17:07 > 0:17:09down without life here.
0:17:09 > 0:17:11Matt you know what one of these is?
0:17:11 > 0:17:12A garage?
0:17:12 > 0:17:13Yes!
0:17:13 > 0:17:15When was the last time you saw a garage in London?
0:17:15 > 0:17:17This would be a small house in London.
0:17:17 > 0:17:19I think it would be a one-bedroom flat.
0:17:19 > 0:17:22I think London will regret being so expensive, because it
0:17:22 > 0:17:24has forced out a lot of the young artistic peopld,
0:17:24 > 0:17:26the people that have made London and especially
0:17:26 > 0:17:30East London what it is.
0:17:30 > 0:17:34Paul quit Hackney for Margate just as business boom for his high
0:17:34 > 0:17:36end industrial designs.
0:17:36 > 0:17:39Like chandeliers from jet engines.
0:17:39 > 0:17:41We are not installed Newington any more, people are leaving
0:17:41 > 0:17:42for financial reasons.
0:17:42 > 0:17:45We took on a hotel in Sydnex, which was huge, we have takdn
0:17:45 > 0:17:49on a couple of restaurants in Singapore, which were huge.
0:17:49 > 0:17:53I think the minute the creativeness moves out of London,
0:17:53 > 0:17:56which it appears is happening, which is a huge shame for London
0:17:56 > 0:18:03and what it is and what can be.
0:18:03 > 0:18:06In in particular there are lots of commercial propdrties,
0:18:06 > 0:18:07small property is perfect for running businesses from.
0:18:08 > 0:18:08Undervalued and under loved.
0:18:08 > 0:18:14This is great British culture.
0:18:14 > 0:18:16Even Dreamland has creaked back into life.
0:18:16 > 0:18:21But many ghost still stand untouched.
0:18:21 > 0:18:23We know that virtually everx studio operating here is full,
0:18:23 > 0:18:27we know that there is a waiting list for some.
0:18:27 > 0:18:29We have had a 36% reduction in unemployment over
0:18:29 > 0:18:30the past three years, 18% more businesses
0:18:31 > 0:18:36in the last two years.
0:18:36 > 0:18:39In an old picture framing w`rehouse, dozens of London rivals
0:18:39 > 0:18:42set-up work space.
0:18:42 > 0:18:44This will be where my studio is
0:18:44 > 0:18:46James is a musician and music producer.
0:18:46 > 0:18:51I was in Hackney for eight xears.
0:18:51 > 0:18:53It is getting really clean, it is almost becoming like
0:18:53 > 0:18:57the inside of an airport terminal.
0:18:57 > 0:19:00It is too expensive and I fdel so much more free here.
0:19:00 > 0:19:04I am able financially to be able to build a studio, have a flat
0:19:04 > 0:19:07and actually have a car for less than what I was paying for one
0:19:07 > 0:19:13room in London.
0:19:13 > 0:19:18The same London stories as xou go from studio to studio.
0:19:18 > 0:19:20Personally it was really upsetting to be pushed out of somewhere
0:19:20 > 0:19:22you have been your whole life.
0:19:22 > 0:19:23It was very frustrating as well
0:19:23 > 0:19:26To see that most people my `ge are having the same problems.
0:19:26 > 0:19:33It seems like there's nothing we can do about it but move somewhdre else.
0:19:33 > 0:19:36London first represents somd of the capital 's leading elployers.
0:19:36 > 0:19:41It is not just Margate that can end up taking a slice of London's pie,
0:19:41 > 0:19:44it can be places outside of the UK, we are seeing Dublin,
0:19:44 > 0:19:46Berlin and other places are being their hands with glee
0:19:46 > 0:19:49at the prospect of taking some other tech companies and creative
0:19:49 > 0:19:52industries away from us.
0:19:52 > 0:19:55We have this brilliant cluster often called Silicon roundabout,
0:19:55 > 0:19:59that could end up some kind of silicone cemetary if all
0:19:59 > 0:20:01the people who work there ddcides to have a better life elsewhere
0:20:01 > 0:20:04We need to build the homes that those people need to lhve
0:20:04 > 0:20:07in everyone to keep them here in this brilliant capital.
0:20:07 > 0:20:10London first to say one in six of the capital's companies
0:20:10 > 0:20:12are considering relocation.
0:20:12 > 0:20:15We have some people literally travelling for an hour and ` half.
0:20:15 > 0:20:17Feed, a successful Shoreditch Tech advertising company
0:20:17 > 0:20:21employs 120 people.
0:20:21 > 0:20:23I think London has got to be careful.
0:20:23 > 0:20:25We have been looking at Manchester for some time.
0:20:25 > 0:20:27Similar things happened in San Francisco when the prices
0:20:27 > 0:20:32went up dramatically and evdryone started moving to LA.
0:20:32 > 0:20:38From California dreams to London's new exiles in Dreamland Margate
0:20:38 > 0:20:41Margate wakes up and starts the day as we would all like to do, slowly.
0:20:41 > 0:20:44I absolutely feel like I have made the right decision.
0:20:44 > 0:20:46I get to see the sea every day.
0:20:46 > 0:20:50Do you live to work or do you work to live?
0:20:54 > 0:20:56Do you know, our consumer goods are getting so cheap that everything
0:20:56 > 0:20:59from furniture to fashions to electronics, that I can't
0:20:59 > 0:21:01remember the last time I got something fixed when it broke.
0:21:01 > 0:21:03I just threw it away.
0:21:03 > 0:21:05So maybe our government shotld be following the lead of other union
0:21:05 > 0:21:08states and encouraging more of us to repair and reuse stuff
0:21:08 > 0:21:11rather than throw it away.
0:21:11 > 0:21:14Some individuals and businesses are doing just that and herd
0:21:14 > 0:21:17in the own words are some of those pioneers try to put our throwaway
0:21:17 > 0:21:21culture into reverse.
0:21:21 > 0:21:24We are in Graham Park estate in Garnet.
0:21:24 > 0:21:29We opened this shop in April.
0:21:29 > 0:21:35We have collected over 1400 items, which is about 20 tonnes of items
0:21:35 > 0:21:38that would have ended up in landfill.
0:21:38 > 0:21:41We have engaged around 660 residents and residents came up to us and said
0:21:41 > 0:21:43they have been crying out for something like this
0:21:43 > 0:21:47on the estate.
0:21:47 > 0:21:52Either a resident with cont`ct us and say they have an item they no
0:21:52 > 0:21:55longer want or one of our tdam of staff of volunteers will spot
0:21:55 > 0:22:01an item on the street that light be repairable or usable as it hs.
0:22:01 > 0:22:05Then it goes to the workshop that we assess what needs to be dond to it.
0:22:05 > 0:22:08Then when we have an item that is usable and sellable
0:22:08 > 0:22:13we will bring it into the shop year and we will sell it to residents.
0:22:13 > 0:22:15We are living in a throwawax culture, still, in the UK.
0:22:15 > 0:22:18If anything this is getting worse and worse.
0:22:18 > 0:22:21Throwaway culture is a systdm of production that is predicated
0:22:21 > 0:22:25on overproduction, excessive consumption.
0:22:25 > 0:22:28The good part is that consulers in the UK public are increasingly
0:22:28 > 0:22:33recognising what the true cost of our throwaway culture is,
0:22:33 > 0:22:36they can see the environmental costs, they can link the consumer
0:22:36 > 0:22:38culture with climate change, they can link going shopping
0:22:38 > 0:22:41on Oxford Street with what happened when a factory collapses in places
0:22:41 > 0:22:47like Bangladesh and China.
0:22:47 > 0:22:49And I think this is where the motivation needs to defhnitely
0:22:49 > 0:22:51be coming from the UK Government to respond
0:22:51 > 0:22:55to what it is that we are concerned about.
0:22:55 > 0:22:58What we are doing here is providing a system that allows them to reuse
0:22:58 > 0:23:00and then you find people retse them perfectly happily.
0:23:00 > 0:23:03It is only by doing things like this on the small-scale and provhng
0:23:03 > 0:23:12the concept that you can thdn roll it out on a wider scale.
0:23:12 > 0:23:15I am Tom Cridland, and and H run a sustainable fashion busindss
0:23:15 > 0:23:17Which aims to cut out unnecdssary retail mark-ups and offer ltxury
0:23:17 > 0:23:19clothing whilst engaging the mass-market with
0:23:19 > 0:23:27sustainable fashion.
0:23:27 > 0:23:29So the 30 year sweatshirt is a sweatshirt that we pledge
0:23:29 > 0:23:32to make sort you like and so well that we guarantee it
0:23:32 > 0:23:35for three decades.
0:23:35 > 0:23:38That means within the next 30 years if something was to happen to it,
0:23:38 > 0:23:41it was to record her, you could send it back to us
0:23:41 > 0:23:43and we would mend it for free or replace it.
0:23:43 > 0:23:47We have sourced materials environmentally, we have dotble
0:23:47 > 0:23:51reinforced sleeve seams and we have worked with a manufacturing team
0:23:51 > 0:23:53have been in business since 197 and shown me sweatshirts
0:23:53 > 0:23:57that were the 1970s.
0:23:57 > 0:24:01We are using the 30-year concept as a way of engaging the avdrage
0:24:01 > 0:24:04consumer with the need to fhght against this throwaway culttre
0:24:04 > 0:24:08and this wasteful cycle of consumption that fast
0:24:08 > 0:24:15fashion is promoting.
0:24:15 > 0:24:18People just value and treastre things far less than a used to,
0:24:18 > 0:24:22and I find it very sad.
0:24:22 > 0:24:26I think the price that we p`y at the check-out does not rdally
0:24:26 > 0:24:28reflect the entire social price of producing that, it does not
0:24:28 > 0:24:31factor in the environmental costs, it does not factor in the f`ct
0:24:31 > 0:24:34that there is an exploited workforce that are making these in factories
0:24:34 > 0:24:37or working on plantations in order to be able to drive
0:24:37 > 0:24:42those prices down.
0:24:42 > 0:24:45It is very difficult to convince the consumer that it is worth then
0:24:45 > 0:24:47spending that little bit more and getting clothing made
0:24:47 > 0:24:52like in a bygone era, where clothing actually took time
0:24:52 > 0:24:54and effort to be put togethdr and it was not just stitched
0:24:54 > 0:24:57together carelessly by people who are badly underpaid and badly
0:24:57 > 0:24:58undervalued by the fast fashion corporations
0:24:58 > 0:25:03that they are working for.
0:25:03 > 0:25:06We live currently in a line`r economy, so basically things
0:25:06 > 0:25:08are made, they are sold, we use them away but the move
0:25:08 > 0:25:12I think now needs to be madd, and there is a lot of impetts
0:25:12 > 0:25:14for this particularly in London to a more circular economy
0:25:14 > 0:25:22where people are more empowdred to do their own repairs,
0:25:22 > 0:25:24to reuse things, but also where we collaborate with btsiness
0:25:24 > 0:25:26and with policymakers and stakeholders right across London
0:25:26 > 0:25:30to come up with a system whdreby we are able to keep materials in use
0:25:30 > 0:25:36for longer and are able to feed them back into the system.
0:25:36 > 0:25:39Hi, my name is James Rubin, and I set up EnviroWaste in 201 .
0:25:39 > 0:25:42We are a waste management company and we focus and specialised
0:25:42 > 0:25:45specifically an electronic waste.
0:25:45 > 0:25:48With coming into the industry at this time, we are like it is time
0:25:48 > 0:25:51for a change and we are abld to see the needs of the marketplacd
0:25:51 > 0:25:54and built the company around that, so we have built our companx around
0:25:54 > 0:25:55this circular economy model.
0:25:55 > 0:26:01So let's not just treat a laptop as a waste item,
0:26:01 > 0:26:04and then send it off for recycling, let's actually value it and try
0:26:04 > 0:26:06and repair and refurbishment at upgraded as quickly as possible.
0:26:06 > 0:26:10We would then work with IT resellers who would come in and buy in bulk
0:26:10 > 0:26:13and then sell it on individtally and to be honest, we are of
0:26:13 > 0:26:15a new generation that understands the electronics much better
0:26:15 > 0:26:18than the other generation s`w the mindset that we have,
0:26:18 > 0:26:21we have built, we can see what needs to be done with this new waste
0:26:21 > 0:26:24stream which is only really become apparent in the last ten ye`rs.
0:26:24 > 0:26:26Our impact only grows the bigger company gets,
0:26:26 > 0:26:33and the bigger impact the bdtter for the environment.
0:26:33 > 0:26:35It would make much more sense of the government set
0:26:35 > 0:26:37to complete like ourselves, you're doing a good
0:26:37 > 0:26:43job, so here you are.
0:26:43 > 0:26:44Get some help.
0:26:44 > 0:26:47Tax breaks would be awesome but I don't think that is going
0:26:47 > 0:26:49to be around a corner any thme soon.
0:26:49 > 0:26:51It is estimated that the cotntry could save 23 billion
0:26:51 > 0:26:54per year by moving towards a more circular economy.
0:26:54 > 0:26:58There should be a massive incentive for businesses
0:26:58 > 0:27:01to move into this field.
0:27:01 > 0:27:03What they need is a bit of help
0:27:03 > 0:27:06When the government steps in it does really accelerate that procdss
0:27:06 > 0:27:08but whenever I have tabled Parliamentary questions and tried
0:27:08 > 0:27:11to push them on what they are doing it seems very far from the thoughts,
0:27:11 > 0:27:13which I think is disappointhng.
0:27:13 > 0:27:16If other European countries are doing it we are going to find
0:27:16 > 0:27:21that we get left behind.
0:27:21 > 0:27:23We have been running quite ` few workshops in the past coupld
0:27:23 > 0:27:27of months and quite a few rduse events to encourage people to do
0:27:27 > 0:27:28more and pass on some of those skills.
0:27:28 > 0:27:32If we all kept her clothes hn use for a bit longer then the ilpact it
0:27:32 > 0:27:35makes on the environment and our pockets is huge.
0:27:35 > 0:27:37This evening I will teach you some hand sewing
0:27:37 > 0:27:43and machine sewing skills.
0:27:43 > 0:27:48Coming to a workshop like this and learning how to fix your laptop.
0:27:48 > 0:27:51I remember growing up my father used to mend the Christmas lights every
0:27:51 > 0:27:54year and those kinds of things we just don't do any more.
0:27:54 > 0:27:57We just don't know those thhngs that we are not just losing stuff
0:27:57 > 0:28:00as a result we are losing some sense of control over our lives h`d
0:28:00 > 0:28:01over our own things.
0:28:01 > 0:28:03Empowering consumers actually to repair the stuff,
0:28:03 > 0:28:05even if it is a tiny little intervention,
0:28:05 > 0:28:07it is part of that whole picture.
0:28:07 > 0:28:11It is a piece of the jigsaw and it will enable us as a city to become
0:28:11 > 0:28:17more resilient and resource efficient in the future.
0:28:28 > 0:28:30And that is all for the current series.
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0:28:46 > 0:28:52I hope to see you then.
0:29:04 > 0:29:06Hello, I'm Riz Lateef with your 90-second update.
0:29:06 > 0:29:09There'll be no public inquiry into police tactics at the Battle
0:29:09 > 0:29:11of Orgreave during the miners' strike in 1984.