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Tuesday, April 18, 2023The 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 NEGATIVEECONOMIC 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. -