Case study 2 - Access to services - Shopping
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- GEOGRAPHYCase study 2 - Access to services - Shopping
- Reasons why Meadowhall is so attractive to shops (good and bad points of Meadowhall)
- Near to suburban housing (labour force)
- Modern with new facilities
- Near motorway intersections (accessibility)
- Under-cover shopping
- Catchment area
- cinema, leisure, attractions for children
- Access to large variety of shops
- 9 million people live within an hour away
- railway stations nearby (2)
- 12,000 parking spaces
- constructed on a brownfield site
- space for expansion
- tram link
- traders not attracted to the city as there is graffiti
- cheaper land
- Reasons why Meadowhall is so attractive to shops (good and bad points of Meadowhall)
- Shopping in Sheffield has changed. Many shops have left the CBD and moved to the outskirts of the in city in a large out-of-town shopping centre called Meadowhall
- CBDs became unattractive to shops because:
- Shop rents were expensive
- Less Shopers
- Shoppers get wet outside
- Limited range of shops and goods
- Rise of internet shopping
- CBDs became unattractive to shops because:
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