Is My Area sustainable ?

Is my home a sustainable development? Before I lived in Halls I lived in a place in called Rush Green which is Dagenham in east London. Is this place sustainable? I do not think it is fully however it does have some of the features of a sustainable community. For Example it has great transport links, there are very little homeless so in that sense it appears sustainable. Also the local council Have but in a green policy involve rubbish giving every house a “wheelie bin”. Also looking at the statistics it can be seen that The Majority of the population of Barking and Dagenham have there own room. Therefore on the source it looks like the London borough of barking and Dagenham is sustainable. Well it is not and I know that as I have lived in this borough nearly all of my life. There has always been great social unrest and high unemployment .This has increased in modern times due to the extremist parties that are currently involved in local politics. There area also has a Notoriety level in the local area. For example I went to school in the next borough and quickly learnt that children opinion “which they took from the parents “was that Dagenham was a dangerous place which shows that it is not a sustainable place. Also according to the statistics website there is a high level of unemployment with 5.7% signing on to benefits. So due to the civil unrest the answer is no Barking and Dagenham is not sustainable as shown with the following figures at http://www.upmystreet.com/local/crime-in-dagenham.html