Land Use Change In An Urban Area - Population And Settlement

Question 1

• location
• problems (3)
• solution (2)

Answer 1

• London Docklands
• employment in decline due to the decline and closure of the docks in 1970s
• access to rest of London was poor (only 1 bus route and no rail or underground services)
• mainly high density terraced houses on large estates (95% rented houses)
• in 1981 LDDC was set up to regenerate the area
• with and investment of 2 billion pounds they made multiple changes

Question 2

• environmental changes (2)

Answer 2

• 200,000 trees planted

- 17 conservation areas

Question 3

• economic changes (2)

Answer 3

• Docklands Light Railway developed in 1987 to carry 35,000 passengers a week to the city centre and London City Airport
• Canary Wharf was built for businesses (reduced unemployment from 14% to 7.4% with 70,000 new jobs)

Question 4

• social changes (2)

Answer 4

• 22,000 new houses built

- 7% of budget spend on community infrastructure (12 new primary schools, Surrey Docks Watersports Centre)

Question 5

• positives (3)
• negatives (3)
  (env, soc, econ)

Answer 5

• increased attractiveness of brownfield site (env)
• public transport developments reduce car pollution (env)
• created thousands of new jobs (soc, econ)
• houses are too expensive so locals can’t afford them (average house price £500,000) (soc)
• lack of social housing as it was cleared and replaced with private owned properties (soc)
• new jobs did not fit the skill set of old dockers who were used to manual labour (soc)