Changing Places Flashcards
Where is Cheam located and how does this affect the character of the area?
Cheam is located in the borough of Sutton and has been subject to lots of change throughout the years,
How does cheam’s level of deprivation differ to the rest of sutton and why is this important to understand?
IMD: lots of variety with level of deprivation:
* Belmont most one of most deprived areas w 0.8% of LSOAs in the area
* Cheam is one of least deprived areas w 15.7% to 19%
* North of Sutton is most densely deprived area w St Helier and Rosehill
Reasons?
rich bc of prestigious schools n how it used to be used for agriculture
(index of multiple deprivation)
The theoretical approaches to place
- Descriptive - world is a set of places and each is distinct and can be studied
- Social constructionist - place = product of social processes occuring at particular time - i.e Trafalgar square being built to commemorate Britain’s naval victory therefore symbolising colonialism + empire
- Phenomenological - Interested in how an individual experiences place. Yi-Fu Tuan and Edward Relph are pioneers of this approach
Can add Relph and Tuan’s individual ideas later if necessary
How has Cheam’s demography and economic characteristics shaped the area?
Demography:
* 17.5% = Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh compared to in 2011 of almost 12%
* 68% = white now compared to 78%
* 45-49 years old of pop
* 35% are professionals
Economics:
* Mean household income = £40,000 in 2002/03 to £64,000 in 2016/17
* House prices: £650,000 for 4 bed semi detached. £3 million for 7 bed detahed house
Socioeconomics:
* unemployed =** 2.2%** compared to 4.5% in rest of london (NRU)
* % aged sixteen and over w no formal qualifications = 14.6% compared to 16.7% in England
links to the low unemployment rate
How has Cheam changed over time
With regards to infrastucture that kind of thing
- Infrastructure: become placeless with Waitrose and Costa and Café Nero there now less of an English Village feel
- During WWll Cheam Village station was where people would say goodbye to family members, Cheam was heavily bombed as well
- Railway built in 1847
- Nonsuch Palace constructed in 1538 by King Henry Vlll ‘nonesuch’
- had very fertile land before
How has cheam changed over time?
Human and physical changes
Human changes:
* Banstead Asylum has become two prisons
* part of Nonsuch Park has been expanded
* Sparrow Farm has been removed (1894) and has become an urban area for housing (just north of Nonsuch Park) and is also home to a leisure centre
Physical changes:
* Very countryside-y before
* 1 acre of meadow in 1086 (recorded in 1086 as Ceiham)
* In middle ages was known for its potteries
Investigating inequalities in cheam
Artistic representations:
* Poem by Edward Lear - “in the beautiful meadows of Cheam”
* Hancock’s Half Hour: BBC radio comedy from 1954-61 chose East Cheam because in those days was ‘the Beverly Hills of South London’, but east cheam as character wasn’t that rich
* paintings present it as a very elegant area with lots of agriculture and meadows
Inequality data:
*ranked as worse than average with housing affordability
* infant mortality is worse than average
