Determine if Harefield is just another suburb of London or a village in its own right.

Avninder Gidar

Harefield Follow Up

Practice GCSE Coursework

Aim:

To determine if Harefield is just another suburb of London or a village in its own right.

To help me investigate I am going to look at the different features hypothetically Harefield would have if it was a village or a suburb.

Characteristics of:

A village:

A village tends to be based around a church. The houses are mostly detached and there is loads of open greenery.

There are shops but only for local convenience goods such as newspapers and using the post office.

A suburb:

A suburb is an outlying part of a city or town and typically has good transport links to the city or town e.g. Train stations, bus routes and main roads.

There are normally public parks and other area’s of public open space.

Usually there are enough shops for the local people’s needs but nothing too big.

Some suburbs were built for inter-war housing to re-house the people who had lost their homes in the war. These houses tend to be semi-detached with bay windows and metal window frames. Most have front and back gardens.

Hypothesis:

I believe that Harefield is a village, even though it has inter-war housing it has very bad transport links to London so its not a link to the main city which suburbs tend to be.

Also Harefield’s recourses were limited, a few food shops and a spar for groceries that was it really.

Methodology

CBD survey:

This survey is done to show what services are available to the residents living in Harefield.

The survey was simply done by walking down the high street and noting all the shops then later convert this data into a key.

There weren’t really any limitations in this survey as it only consisted of walking and note taking despite the fact that the key given to us was not specific enough.

Questionnaire:

This was done to find out how people who live and people who don’t live in Harefield use the area’s facilities and if they worked there.

The questionnaire was carried out by asking random people on the high street some questions.

There were many limitations for this survey as the questionnaire was carried out on a Tuesday at 11 30 am -12 30 pm, when most people with a job would be. For this a longer time is needed, and a range of days. Also I think one would need to ask more than 15 people to get a representative sample.

Land use survey:

This survey was done to help understand how the land was being used in Harefield this helped to show ...