Near Place study- Lichfield Flashcards
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Lichfield is a city in Staffordshire. It’s the furthest UK city from the sea at 84 miles away. The A38 runs through the east of Lichfield.
How has the lived experience of Lichfield changed over time?
- Lichfield used to be a small city with very little houses and a cathedral since 1195. - – Used to be full of independently run businesses and market stalls but now has many TNC’s so become slightly homogenised and expanded as a city.
How has lived experience (housing) changed in Lichfield?
Used to be a medieval city with red brick Georgian style buildings and first council houses built after WW1.
Now - Many new housing developments happening like Feb 2022 made £13.5 million apartments development to support elderly population.
How does Zoopla describe Lichfield?
‘Lichfield blends convenient connections to nearby cities with the welcoming feel of a quintessential market town’
How has the way Lichfield changed, led to different place identities?
Now there’s more houses and developments/ TNC’s - Lichfield is more homogenised as lacks uniqueness of what used to be a small market city.
What are Lichfield’s demographic characteristics and how have they changed over time?
Population increase of 5.7% between 2011 and 2021.
Ethnicity = 94.8% of Lichfield is white.
Religion= 53.6% of population is Christian with 39.1% of people not being religious.
Age= Rapid increase in ages 70-90 yrs old.
Crime= 15% less crime than national average.
How are the patterns of social inequality influenced by the built environment?
More Chinese and Indian restaurants - leaning towards multi-culturalism
Still 94% of Lichfield is white but could be because of predominantly white and Christian stores.
To what extent have the flows of people been important in developing the character of Lichfield?
Many Cantonese people have recently moved here from war/ unrest. Lichfield has more welcoming advertisements to welcome them. This has led to increasing Asian shops and stores.
How has Lichfield been represented by different people and organisations?
Cathedral - reinforces the Christian religion within Lichfield
Cantonese people - Chinese, family run restaurants
Erasmus Darwin House - represented well by heritage organisations
Name 3 sources of data that you have used in this case study
Datashine - mostly demographics like jobs
National Census- population stats
Crime Rates- To investigate the crime compared to rest of the UK
To what extent were your data sources reliable?
datashine - reliable data but no explanation as to why the stats are like this
national census - very reliable as run by government so no bias stats
crime rates- police website so also reliable
