1. Revision – Bluewater case study

2. Changes on the rural-urban fringe Bluewater is a large out of town shopping center that is located on the rural-urban fringe of London. Re-cap: 1.What is an ‘out of town shopping center’ and what are these usually like? 2.What is the ‘rural-urban fringe’? 3.What kind of changes have taken place on the rural-urban fringe in recent years, and why?

3. What activities can you see occurring? Stanstead Airport

4. What activities can you see occurring? Science Park Bridgend

5. What activities can you see occurring? Bluewater

6. Airports Hotels and conference centres Science Parks Landfill sites Out-of-town shopping centres Sports Stadium Housing developments

7. 1.Where is the ‘urban’ area? 2.Where is the ‘rural’ area? 3.Where is the ‘rural-urban’ fringe? 4.What makes the rural-urban fringe attractive as a place to build out of town shopping centers, airports, sports stadiums, housing developments…etc?

8. Case study : Bluewater Watch the video about Bluewater and make notes on: Reasons for the change Advantages Disadvantages Bromley Action Plan

9. Location of Bluewater

11. X Exam question: Using map evidence, identify three reasons why Bluewater shopping centre has located in location X X

12. Why do you think Bluewater is located here? Near to main roads - M25 and A2 Out of town - more space to build on and cheaper land Brownfield site – using an old industrial site to build on

13. Bluewater case study Read P458-459 of Integrated Approach as well as your notes 1.Where is Bluewater located and why? 2.What kind of site is it on? 3.Who built Bluewater? 4.What advantages has Bluewater bought? advantages Also consider how it might have bought advantages to certain groups of people e.g. local residents, elderly people, teenagers, disabled people, local politician, those who don’t have a car, residents of nearby towns/cities, Bromley High Street shop owner, shop owners in central London, CPRE (Council for Protection of Rural England) 5.What disadvantages has Bluewater bought? disadvantages Also consider how it might have bought disadvantages to certain groups of people e.g. local residents, elderly people, teenagers, disabled people, local politician, those who don’t have a car, residents of nearby towns/cities, Bromley High Street shop owner, shop owners in central London, CPRE (Council for Protection of Rural England) 6.What is the Bromley Action Plan?