Since 2006 Hyson Green has seen a larger rise in development and direct international investment than any other area of Nottingham.

While the local economy is improving, child poverty remains higher than average, as listed in Nottingham City Council's ward profiles.

The opening of the tram system has boosted Hyson Green's profile and helped to regenerate the area.

[4] On the night of 19 October 1330, King Edward III walked along it with a posse of men to apprehend Roger Mortimer, in Nottingham Castle.

A tea garden and bowling green was made at the Cricket Players public-house, which was established by John Pepper about 1824.

In addition to the brass foundry, there was a lace factory, an Anglican church with attached school, and two Methodist chapels.

City status was awarded as part of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations of Queen Victoria, being signified in a letter from the prime minister, the Marquess of Salisbury to the mayor, dated 18 June 1897.

By 1912, Hyson Green was an area of gridiron streets with densely packed, small terraced houses.

They were a well-known landmark in their day, and many people enjoyed living in the area due to its strong community spirit.

There were defects in these estates, and legislative and economic changes disproportionately afflicted the communities living in council-rented accommodation.

The main motives for the riots were related to racial tension and inner-city deprivation, together with a distrust of the police and 'authority' in general.

The riots started on the Friday night on Radford Road in response to a significant build-up of police presence, and moved to the flats in the early hours of Saturday morning.

The fighting began as a confrontation with the police using stones and petrol bombs, with shop windows only being broken 'accidentally', but looting occurred later; the rioters were always of mixed races and ages, employed and unemployed.

Petrol bombs were made and thrown, but an early attempt to torch the flats was successfully resisted by the residents.

[11] Prince Charles visited Hyson Green Flats in 1982, during a fact-finding tour of Britain's inner cities.