To find out the rateable values of shops along Church St, in and out of the C.B.D.

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? Aim: To find out the rateable values of shops along Church St, in and out of the C.B.D.

? Hypothesis:

. The shops in the C.B.D pay higher rates than the other shops along Church Street.

2. The shops with the greatest width pay higher rates than those with narrow widths.

? Method: When I arrived at Church Street, I started from a specific end of the street, which would make the businesses easier to locate on the map. As I wrote the information needed about each shop, I noted the name of the shop and the address. This is because if a shop closes down, the address of the shop still remains. In some cases it was hard to locate the street number, as there was no-sign or plaque stating it. On these occasions I had to enquire in store by asking an assistant. After noting the details of width of shop frontage and name and address of the shop, I moved onto the next section of Church Street, between Topping Street and Buchanan Street. After noting the same details about another four shops, I moved onwards again to the final part of Church Street to where it reaches Devonshire Road. After completing all twelve shops I selected six of the shops I had already chosen on Church Street and completed a table on which had the location of the shop, the date and time and also the weather. On the sheet I wrote the name of the shop, frontage size, the uses of all the buildings levels, the classification of the use of the shop e.g. B for clothing shops. After this was completed a customer count for ten minutes was counted minutes and wrote down for each of the shops, with a general comment also.
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The rateable values for each property were recorded afterwards via the Internet. (www.voa.gov.uk)

? Results:

Name of Shop

Address

Number on map

Width of

Window

(paces)

Rank Order of Width

Rateable Value

Rank Order

Rateable

Value

All: Sports

54, Church St

7

8th

£59,000

4

Dixons

44-46 Church St

5

2nd

£157,000

st

Marks & Spencer

49 Church St

24

st

£65,000

3rd ...

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