Transcript The Westfield Centre has a Positive Effect on the Local Area

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Wednesday, April 6, 2016
The Westfield Centre has a Positive Effect on the Local Area
Learning Objective:
• To investigate the social, economic and environmental impacts of the
Westfield Centre on the Local Area
Starter: 3,2,1
•Use 3 adjectives to describe what Shepherd’s Bush was like before the
Westfield Redevelopment
•Give 2 factual pieces of evidence to demonstrate why the
redevelopment was needed
•Suggest 1 group of people who may be opposed to the
Redevelopment and explain why
The Westfield Centre has a Positive Effect on the Local Area
In order to fully evaluate the impact of the Westfield Centre we will
need to find out more about both the positive and negative effects that
the centre has had on people, money and jobs and the environment.
Remember in Geography, we classify these impacts into:
• Social
• Economic
• Environmental
You have been provided with an article which was published by the
Hammersmith & Fulham Local Council 3 weeks before the Westfield
Centre opened in 2008. Read through it carefully on your own and use it
to answer the questions as fully as possible in your exercise book.
The Westfield Centre has a Positive Effect on the Local Area
1. In which London borough is the Westfield Centre located?
2. As well as 265 new stores, what else will be an offer in the Westfield Centre? How might these improve
people’s social quality of life?
3. The Westfield Centre is located just 3 miles from London’s Oxford Street, what potential economic
impacts could this have?
4. Explain how the following improvements in the Shepherd’s Bush Green Redevelopment could improve
life for people in the local area:
Brand New Children’s Play Area?
Improved CCTV and Lighting?
New Café?
5. How much money was put in to improving transport links?
6. Name three ways in which transport links improved. How does better transport improve people’s lives?
7. Shepherd’s Bush Library opened in 2009 with money from the Westfield Regeneration Project. Identify
two different groups of people who will have benefitted from this and explain how their lives may be
improved.
8. How many new jobs were created in the redevelopment? What types of jobs were they? How can new
jobs improve the local area?
9. New affordable homes were built in the area. What was the name of this development and how many
homes were created? How can new homes improve the local area?
10. What improvements have better policing had on the local area?
11. Does all this evidence prove that Westfield is having a positive impact on the local area? Why / Why
Not?
12. Could this information be biased in any way? What will be our next steps in ensuring that we carry out a
fair investigation?
The Westfield Centre has a Positive Effect on the Local Area
Task 2
Sort through the cards in your group. You will need to make 6 groups for
the information
SOCIAL POSITIVE
SOCIAL NEGATIVE
ECONOMIC POSITIVE
ECONOMIC NEGATIVE
ENVIRONMENTAL POSITIVE
ENVIRONMENTAL NEGATIVE
The Westfield Centre has a Positive Effect on the Local Area
Plenary
Using all of the information from today’s lesson. Fill in your A3 sheet to
summarise the social, economic and environmental impacts of the
Westfield Centre.
This piece of work will be needed in Section C of your controlled
assessment. Try to use as much specific information as you can.
Social +
Social -
Economic +
Economic -
Environ. +
Environ. -
Social +
Social -
Economic +
Economic -
Environ. +
Environ. -