Changing Places

Question 1

Where is Cheam located and how does this affect the character of the area?

Answer 1

Cheam is located in the borough of Sutton and has been subject to lots of change throughout the years,

Question 2

How does cheam’s level of deprivation differ to the rest of sutton and why is this important to understand?

Answer 2

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)

Question 3

The theoretical approaches to place

Answer 3

1. Descriptive - world is a set of places and each is distinct and can be studied
2. 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
3. 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

Question 4

How has Cheam’s demography and economic characteristics shaped the area?

Answer 4

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

Question 5

How has Cheam changed over time

With regards to infrastucture that kind of thing

Answer 5

• 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

Question 6

How has cheam changed over time?

Human and physical changes

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Investigating inequalities in cheam

Answer 7

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