Suburbanisation

Push factors:

• Poor quality housing lacking basic services e.g. indoor bathrooms/central heating 
• Deindustrialisation in city centres means lossof jobs 
• Unemployment means less money to spend on local businesses so forced to shut down 

Pull factors:

• Relaxed planning laws  out of city centers so easy to build houses 
• Better public transport  and Increased car ownership makes commuting to city easier 
• Cheaper rents so business rents cheaper 

Impacts on city centre:

• Businesses move out of city centre and building become abandoned and derelict
• Poverty due to increase in unempolyment and decrese in living standards
• Richer people move away leaving the pooor people, leading to economic and ethnic segregation.
• Congestion and pollution increase.

Impacts on suburbs:

• Countryside is used to build new housing.
• Flood risk as more impermeable surfaces so more surface run off.
• Congestion and pollution increase.

• Redevelopment schemes- Encourages people and businesses to move to city centres (Re-urbanisation)
• Green belt land protects countryside from becoming too developed.
• Traffic calming measures such as toll gates and congestion charges.
• Flood defence schemes improved.

Surbiton is an area of south west London and population has increased 19,000 people in 40 years.

Why move to Surbiton?

• Transport links to london excellent 
• Variety of good quality housing 
• plenty of shops and resturant 
• good schools and parks 

Problems in surbiton:

• 70% car ownership means heavy congestion.
• Economic segregation due to high house prices.

Management:

• Widened roads, set delivery times for shops and restricted parking
• re-classify surbiton station in london travel zone 5.
• Bike storage and pedestrian access increased.