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Case Study Of Two Contrasting Place Profiles Flashcards

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Toxteth:
Where is it?

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Liverpool

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Toxteth:
What is the key natural characteristic?

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The river Mersey

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Toxteth:
What was Toxteth originally?

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Toxteth Park
Only for rich people; hunting

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Toxteth:
When were Victorian terraces built?

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1905
Rapid industrialisation

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Toxteth:
How was their wealth built?

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Slave trade
Docks

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Toxteth:
What was the Victorian housing like?

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Back to back
No garden

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Toxteth:
What is the largest age group?

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16-64
75.5%

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Toxteth:
What is the population density?

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87.8

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Toxteth:
What are the two largest ethnic groups?

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White 78.6%
Black African 6.9%

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Toxteth:
What are the three most popular beliefs?

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Christianity
No belief
Muslim

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Toxteth:
What did a 2015 survey reveal was the biggest problem for businesses and why?

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Recruitment
Applicants lack technical or role specific skills

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Toxteth:
Which sector do people struggle to access for employment?

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Knowledge

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Toxteth:
What was set up in 1994?

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Granby Toxteth Development Trust

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Toxteth:
What was the Granby Toxteth Development Trust aim?

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To improve social and economic well-being of residents and businesses

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Toxteth:
What had average housing asking prices risen by in 2020

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20%

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Toxteth:
The land is the second cheapest in the city, what could this lead to?

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Gentrification
Developers invest in devalued land

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Toxteth:
What electorate is is part of?

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Liverpool Riverside Parliamentary
Riverside Ward
30 wards in Liverpool

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Toxteth:
What is the role of Riverside Ward

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3 counsellors responsible for education, children’s services, regeneration, housing and sustainability

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Toxteth:
Who was the MP

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Kim Johnson
Labour

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Toxteth:
What did the area vote in Brexit?

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Remain

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Toxteth:
Why was there a loss of dock/manufacturing jobs? The effect?

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Containerisation and migration of docks further North
Recession and poverty

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Toxteth:
What caused the 1981 Toxteth riots?

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Long standing tensions between police and the black community

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Toxteth:
When was an attempted regeneration of the docks? By who?

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1980s
Merseyside Development Corporation

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Toxteth:
When was Liverpool the European capital of Culture and why?

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2008
Aim to boost tertiary employment and cultural tourism

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Toxteth: What was some of the waterfront designated as by UNESCO?
World Heritage Site (employment)
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Toxteth: Who provided funding to regenerate Liverpool's profile? How?
EU Expanding low carbon sector
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Toxteth: Who developed off shore wind farms? Key dates?
SeaScape energy constructed 2005 in use 2007
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Toxteth: What is the built environment like?
Run down and derelict
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Toxteth: What has happened to some buildings?
Changed use Adopted by migrant communities
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Toxteth: What have migrant communities introduced?
Migrant retailers Mosques
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North Walsham: What is significant about the town's well drained soil?
In medieval times everyone worked as farmers
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North Walsham: What is the ethnic split like?
98% white
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North Walsham: What are beliefs like?
Less than 2% of the town classed as anything other than Christian or atheist
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North Walsham: Why are high-tech IT and quaternary industry not attracted?
Lack of infrastructure Far/few connections (30 mins train to Norwich, 1 hour from a motorway)
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North Walsham: Who is NW competition for FDI and why?
Norwich Major science centre and university city
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North Walsham: Where do migrant communities work?
Care homes Food corner shops
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North Walsham: What was past employment like?
Industry based around agriculture 4 mills for flour employed many people (Millfield road)
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North Walsham: What do many people work in now?
Services Norwich global businesses (Aviva)
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North Walsham: What industry started in the C12th? Who did it attract?
Textiles (sheep wool) attracted Flemish migrants
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North Walsham: What product was sold globally?
Walsham clothe Worstead clothe
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North Walsham: What did they do with their textile wealth?
Built disproportionally large flint 'wool churches' (Norfolk's largest)
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North Walsham: When was the charter for a weekly market bought? Where was the money kept?
1275 Market Cross
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North Walsham: When did trains arrive and why was this helpful?
1874/1881 Improved connectivity with opportunity to sell fruit and jam products Canal plans had been abandoned
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North Walsham: When was the Great Fire?
1600
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North Walsham: Who bought cheap land to build a boy's grammar school?
Sir William Paston
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North Walsham: What style was the town centre rebuilt in after the fire?
Georgian Tall and narrow buildings
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North Walsham: What dimensions were shops rebuilt in after the fire? Why is this an issue in the modern day?
Medieval market stall dimensions of 7ft wide Limits attraction to big retailers
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North Walsham: What has the population grown by between 1971 to 2021 census?
6000 to 12000
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North Walsham: What were 1980s housing estates built on?
Greenfield sites Orchards, woodlands, farmlands
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North Walsham: What have conservative governments allowed?
Identified Norfolk as a growth area Hopkins Homes have built on Brownfield sites
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North Walsham: What evidence is there of a strong sense of community? (5)
Celebrations of farming heritage Annual beer festival Once a month farmer's market Weekly Thursday market Christian festivals (Christmas/Easter)
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North Walsham: What is the population like?
Ageing 29% over 65
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North Walsham: What are political beliefs?
Conservative due to age 58% voted to leave the EU
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North Walsham: What are the local parish councils responsible for?
Lighting local roads Community facilities Housing applications
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North Walsham: What is the most recent investment?
Heritage Action Zone Funded by Historic England £2 million invested into town centre
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North Walsham: What has the HAZ project done?
Regeneration of shop fronts Pedestrianisation of town centre with new roads, widened pavements, dropped curbs and a new bus station
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North Walsham: What percentage of people are over 16 with no formal qualifications?
29.3%
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Toxteth: What percentage of people are over 16 with no formal qualifications?
27.2%

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