An Environmental Quality Survey Of Different Residential Areas

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Geography Coursework                                                Mayooran Sathiyanathan

        

        

G.C.S.E Geography

Name: Mayooran Sathiyanathan

Candidate Number: 1790

Edexcel. Syllabus B. No. 1313.

Centre Number: 13216

Title: An Environmental Quality Survey Of

Different Residential Areas

Teacher: Ms Padayachee

Mark:                      
Contents

Introduction         Pg 3

Aim Of Study         Pg 4

Hypothesis         Pg 4

Location Of The Study         Pg 4

Map of Newham with my roads highlighted         Pg 5

Planning The Study         Pg 6,7

Flow Diagram         Pg 7,8

Method Of Study         Pg 8,9

Overall Results         Pg 10

My Photos & My Graph & My Survey         Pg 11-40

My graphs for all the ten factors         Pg 40-50

Justification of Graphs         Pg 51

Analysis         Pg 51-54

Conclusions         Pg 54,55

Improvements         Pg 55


Introduction

The environment is the physical or natural and human surroundings where people, plants and animals live.

The environment is very important to everything and everyone as we need it to live. Animals and humans rely on the various parts of the environment to survive.

Over recent years there has been problems to do with the ozone layer which protects the earth from the harmful rays of the sun. Unfortunately there has been a hole spotted in it causing worry that the earth will gradually become a giant ‘greenhouse’, hence the Greenhouse Effect. In years to come this could cause even greater problems than it is now, causing the polar icecaps to melt and the earth to be flooded.

It is said that certain gases found in sprays e.g. CFC’s are to blame for the depletion of the ozone layer along with various other forms of pollution.

There are ways in which all of the people can make the earth a better place    creating more open space, planting more trees, flower beds, cleaning up rubbish and placing litter bins around everywhere. The environment is made worse by smoke, pollution from factories, litter, graffiti and smog from cars. All of these things make it a little worse each time.

The quality of the environment is a current issue, but it is difficult to decide what is good for the environment and what is bad. In part, it is a matter of opinion.

Living and working in cities creates many problems which affect the quality of the environment.

  1. Traffic causes congestion, accidents, noise and air pollution.

  1. Old roads are too narrow for lorries and buses, that take up too much land.

  1. Old houses and factories need expensive repairs.

  1. Crime and vandalism, graffiti and litter make cities dangerous and unpleasant.

We have considered this subject in our study of structure and land use in urban areas. The study focuses on changes taking place in urban areas. We aim to identify high and low quality environments and some of the main factors that affect them. There is a need to consider urban sprawl and whether we allow continuing development on more Greenfield sites or look at use of land and regeneration of Brownfield sites. Where redevelopment has taken place, have any environmental problems that exist in the older areas been considered in the planning of the regenerated area.


Aim Of Study

To examine by survey the quality of different residential environments in the London Borough of Newham and the factors affecting that quality.

Hypothesis

That the environmental quality of different residential areas in an urban area such as East London will vary greatly and will depend on a number of factors including location.

  1. The greater the distance from London’s Central Business District the better the environmental conditions become.

  1. The environmental quality of different residential areas in urban locations such as East London will vary greatly and will depend on a number of factors including location.

Location of Study

Newham is located in London. It is one of the many boroughs in London. The area I will investigate and study about will be East Ham. I will choose 10 roads in East Ham to focus on. These 10 roads will be:

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  • Courtland Road
  • Katherine Road
  • Spencer Road
  • Caledon Road
  • Caufield Road
  • Skeffington Road
  • Kempton Road
  • Lathom Road
  • Lawrence Road
  • Burges Road

         

           Total Population in Newham: 243,891


NEWHAM MAP

        


Planning Of The Study

In order to plan and carry out my survey, the first thing I did was to discuss the environment in class. We discussed about what factors affect the environment. I made not of these ideas by brainstorming them to help me. We also talked about the serious problems ...

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