Geography Paper 3 Field Work

How has the regeneration of Longbridge improved the local Environment?

• Land use map
• Environmental quality survey
• Photo annotation

Land use map- 

• Allows us to see the current use of the land.
• Enables us to make judgements about how the land may be used y people and how popular it may be.

Environmental Survey Map - 

• Shows the effects of the regeneration to the land.
• Completing it as primary data makes it more accurate.

Photo Annotation - 

• 2 land use maps
• Use them to compare against
• What has changed in the area?
• What has gone and what has been built in its place?

Land Use Maps - 

• Labelled buildings as residential, leisure and commercial.

Environmental Quality Survey -

• 10 factors were graded`
• Gradings between 1 and 4, 1=Poor 4=Good
• Completed at three sites (Subway, MandS, Bournville College)
• Total was calculated

Annotated Photos - 

• Annotated with the positives and negatives of the visible changes made.

• Crossing Roads --> Hit by a car --> We used zebra crossings
• Visiting Busy Town Centre --> Getting Lost --> Stood Together and moved as a group
• Traffic in town centre --> Hit by a car --> Walk on the paths

Placing this data on a map allows us to -

• compare and visually see the trends of certain land use.
• see the land as a whole

• Use T.E.A.M
• Most buildings were commercial
• Bournville College isn't commercial, leisure or residential so is an anomaly.
• We did expect that most buildings would commercial because it is a town centre where many people will come to shop.

• By plotting all results for that area on one graph, we can easily compare them. 
• The tree graphs can be easily compared due to them being presented in the same way.

• High Quality
• Many Factors being rated as 4
• 3x3
• 1x2
• High quality because it is located outside of a shop. If the area is not kept clean, it makes detract customers.

• Very high-quality rating
• all but 2 results on 4
• 2 results on 3
• All results matched my expectations as the two scores ranked at 3 were based on traffic which cannot be helped as it is located at the entrance of the town centre.

• Worst Results
• 5 ranked very high
• 2 ranked very low
• No anomalies
• Factors based on traffic met my expectations as there were many students and it was located near the entrance of the town centre.

• Enables us to clearly see the changes that have been made
• Aerial photos = allows us to see all aspects clearly.
• The photos can be used with many other data collection methods.

• Has made the previous brownfield site look better.
• Has stopped urban deprivation
• Has improved the environment (Small stream/plants/grass/trees)
• All data collected matched my expectations
• Is valid as we used an accurate example or urban regeneration
• Reliability was impacted on by not being able to analyse all areas.
• More secondary data should have been used to increase reliability.
• Should choose more areas to analyse.