Changes - Rural / Urban Fringe

Question 1

1) We are now experiencing urban sprawl - a conflict
because areas like Newton Mearns is spreading into
farmland and the countryside

Answer 1

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Question 2

2) New housing estates have been introduced to the

edge of town

Answer 2

TIB the land is cheeper so detached + semidetached houses can be built for families.

TMT they will have gardens + more open space

Question 3

3) On the edge of town, there has been an increase in out
of town shopping centres e.g Braehead + St James
Retail Park on the edge of Dumbarton

Answer 3

TMT the advantages are that there is easy access to them off the motorway + everything is under one roof e.g shopping, cinema, restaurants, bowling + entertainment

Question 4

4) However the disadvantages to this are that

Answer 4

> roads become very congested TMT there is an increase
of air pollution + road rage

> the high street of Dumbarton suffers TIB no one shops
there anymore TMT shops close down leading to an
increase in antisocial behavior + the town centre
becomes like a ghost town

Question 5

5) The increase in urban sprawl

Answer 5

HALT a loss of countryside, habitats + wildlife

Question 6

6) Science parks, call centres, offices + businesses move

to the edge of town

Answer 6

TIB the idea is to relieve traffic from the centre of town (decentralisation)