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The following table and graphs show you crime and ASB breakdowns and trends for St Neots policing team.

Crime Plus ASB Breakdown for St Neots policing team

Crime Type and ASB Charts for St Neots policing team

In September 2011, Other Crime was divided into 6 categories - Drugs, Public Disorder & Weapons (which was later split further and so is not displayed here), Criminal Damage & Arson (CD&A), Theft - Shoplifting, Theft-Other and Other.

From May 2013, the following changes were made to the crime categories:
I) The violent crime category was renamed "violence and sexual offences"
2) A new category for "bicycle theft" was created which previously fell within "other theft"
3) A new category for "theft from the person" was created which previously fell within "other theft"
4) Public disorder and weapons were then split into two new categories; "public order" and "possession of weapons"
5) Both "other firearms offences" and "other knives offences" which were in "other crime" were moved into "possession of weapons".

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28 June 2022

The population of England and Wales has increased by more than 3.5 million in the 10 years leading up to Census 2021. Using the first results from this census, we look at which places have seen the biggest increases and decreases, which areas had the largest growth in different age groups, and how your chosen local authority area compares with others.

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Population change in certain areas may reflect how the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic affected people's choice of usual residence on Census Day, for example, students and in some urban areas.

These changes might have been temporary for some and more long-lasting for others.

First results from Census 2021 are rounded to the nearest 100 so may not add exactly.

Changes over time have been calculated with rounded estimates for Census 2021 and unrounded estimates from the 2011 Census.

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28 June 2022

The population of England and Wales has increased by more than 3.5 million in the 10 years leading up to Census 2021. Using the first results from this census, we look at which places have seen the biggest increases and decreases, which areas had the largest growth in different age groups, and how local authority areas like Huntingdonshire compare with others.

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The population of England and Wales is the largest ever recorded

There were 59,597,300 people living in England and Wales on 21 March 2021, the day of the latest census. This is over 3.5 million more (6.3%) than in 2011 and is the largest census population ever recorded.

Population change (%) in English regions and Wales between 2011 and 2021

Nearby areas like Bedford and Peterborough have seen their populations increase by around 17.7% and 17.5%, respectively, while others such as Fenland saw an increase of 7.6% and East Cambridgeshire saw smaller growth (4.6%).

The map then zooms to centre on Huntingdonshire and show neighbouring areas.

At the other end of the scale, North Norfolk has seen an increase of just 1.5%.

The local authority areas displayed on the map change form and position to create a bar chart that orders selected areas of the East of England by percentage change in total population.

Some local authority areas have seen their populations decline. Kensington and Chelsea had an estimated population of 143,400 in 2021, which was around 15,200 fewer than in 2011 and a decrease of 9.6%.

The chart continues to show all areas of England as dots, ordered by the percentage change in total population, with the largest decreases towards the left and the largest increases towards the right.

How different local authority areas rank for population size

In 2021, Huntingdonshire ranked 109th for total population out of 309 local authority areas in England, which is a fall of two places in a decade.

Population rank of Huntingdonshire at the time of the 2011 and 2021 Censuses

Rank of local authority areas for population size in England

A chart shows the population rankings of local authority areas for total population size in England in 2011 and 2021.

There are three people for every football pitch-sized piece of land in England

There were 434 residents per square kilometre in England in 2021, up from 407 per square kilometre in 2011. Population density varies from area to area. We can see the difference between local authority areas if we measure the land in football pitches and work out how many people there would be on each one.

Tower Hamlets in London has become the most densely populated local authority area in England (overtaking Islington) with the equivalent of around 112 people per pitch.

At the other end of the population density scale for England, the amount of land in Eden in Cumbria works out at around five pitches per resident.

There were more people than ever aged 65 years and over in England

The population has continued to age. Across England, more than one in six people (18.4%) were aged 65 years and over on Census Day in 2021. This is a higher percentage than ever before.

The age and sex distribution of the population of the East of England in 2011

This population pyramid shows the population of males and females in each five-year age group at the time of the 2011 Census.
The largest age group in the East of England back then was those aged 45 to 49 years.

A population pyramid is displayed. It shows males and females in each age group as a percentage of the total population for Huntingdonshire in 2011. The age group with the largest number of people is highlighted.

The population change in different age groups varies across England

In 32 of the 309 local authority areas of England, the total number of people aged 65 years and over increased by 30.0% or more between 2011 and 2021. This compares with a 20.1% rise across England.

Local authority areas in England that have seen an increase of 30% or more in those aged 65 years and over, 2011 to 2021

The places that have seen the largest percentage decrease in the number of children aged under 15 years are Westminster (19.4%) and Kensington and Chelsea (17.8%) in London and Richmondshire in Yorkshire (12.3%).

The map now highlights the areas with the largest decreases in children aged under 15 years.

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Population change in certain areas may reflect how the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic affected people's choice of usual residence on Census Day, for example, students and in some urban areas.

These changes might have been temporary for some and more long-lasting for others.

First results from Census 2021 are rounded to the nearest 100 so may not add exactly.

Changes over time have been calculated with rounded estimates for Census 2021 and unrounded estimates from the 2011 Census.

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Contact

census.customerservices@ons.gov.uk
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The government has named 72 high streets across England that have been selected to receive £831m of investment to help fund their recovery from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic and to protect jobs.

Robert Jenrick, the communities secretary, said the money would "help our much-loved town centres get through this and prosper into the future". However, the Labour party said the government had originally promised £1bn when it launched the Future High Streets Fund.

"The year ahead will be a big one for the high street as it seeks to recover, adapt and evolve as a result of the pandemic," Jenrick said. "Today's £830m investment from the Future High Streets Fund is one of many ways the government is working to help our much-loved town centres get through this and prosper into the future.

"The role of the high street has always evolved. We want to support that change and make sure that they are the beating heart of their local community - with high quality housing and leisure in addition to shops and restaurants."

Jenrick said the money - which was first promised in 2018 to help high streets struggling long before the coronavirus pandemic - would "help us build back better and make town centres a more attractive place to live, work and visit".

The government said the injection of cash was a "key milestone for the government's levelling-up agenda". "The funding will help these areas transform their high streets into vibrant hubs for future generations and to protect and create thousands of jobs," the Department for Communities and Local Government said.

Sunderland will improve its 1960s train station with the government funding. Photograph: Washington Imaging/Alamy

Swindon and Sunderland are to get the most money - £25m each - to fund a "bus boulevard" in the Wiltshire town and to improve Sunderland's 1960s railway station.

A total of 15 towns and cities are to receive all the money they had bid for, totalling £255m. Another 57 areas have received provisional funding offers worth a combined £576m.

The £831m total is £169m short of the £1bn Boris Johnson promised in August 2019 would "re-energise and transform" more than 100 high streets across the country. Johnson had said the Future High Streets Fund would support more than 100 high streets.

A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said £107m of the missing money had been transferred to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport to fund the regeneration of heritage high streets. She said a further £15.1m had been spent on helping 101 local authorities make their bids for the cash. Some of the remaining money was spent on "developing a new parking code", she said.

Some high streets that were shortlisted by the prime minister in August 2019 were not selected to receive any funds. They include Barrow, Blackpool, Bideford and Runcorn.

The chancellor, Rishi Sunak, said: "We are supporting our high streets to get through this pandemic through business grants, paying people's wages and tax deferrals.

"The Future High Streets Fund will help areas bounce back through regeneration projects that level up opportunities and create jobs right across the country."

Among the projects selected for the funding were £17.9m for the renovation of the Scala Theatre and Corn Exchange in Worcester, a scheme to build 186 homes in Birkenhead and a plan to convert empty retail units in Tamworth, Staffordshire, into community spaces.

Jeremy Oates, Tamworth borough council's cabinet member for heritage and growth, said: ""The projects couldn't just be a case of smartening up an outdoor space or adding hanging baskets, the government is looking for change on a large and transformative scale, in a way that recognises the changing role of the town centre and enables it to survive and thrive on the basis of what people want. Our bid includes a number of very exciting projects which are focused on creating the right foundations for a town centre that is at the heart of the community."

The government was encouraged to launch the scheme by Sir John Timpson, the owner of the shoe repair chain that carries his name. He had called for councils to be given more money to turn town centres into communities and meeting places, highlighting that high streets were not just about shopping.

"By helping our towns create their own individual community hub," Timpson said at the time, "I believe we will have vibrant town centres to provide a much-needed place for face to face contact in the digital age."
15 places have been selected to receive all the money they asked for
1. Tamworth £21,652,555

2. Sunderland £25,000,000

3. Sutton £11,346,704

4. Bishop Auckland £19,856,853

5. Blyth £11,121,059

6. Kidderminster £20,510,598

7. Old Kent Road, Southwark £9,605,854

8. Swindon £25,000,000

9. Stockport £14,500,000

10. Winsford £9,980,000

11. Sheffield £15,817,001

12. Blackfriars, Worcester £17,939,000

13. Birkenhead £24,581,011

14. Brierley Hill £9,985,689

15. Stretford £17,605,674

A further 57 places will receive provisional funding offers
1. Leamington Spa £10,015,121

2. Nuneaton £13,362,736

3. Wolverhampton £15,760,196

4. Walsall £11,439,967

5. Newcastle-under-Lyme £11,048,260

6. Stafford £14,377,723

7. Tottenham £10,019,648

8. Woolwich £17,150,964

9. Wealdstone - £7,448,583

10. Putney - £1,058,706

11. Elland £6,310,812

12. Northallerton £6,085,013

13. Rotherham £12,660,708

14. Halifax £11,762,823

15. Barnsley £15,624,456

16. Scunthorpe £10,675,323

17. New Ferry, Wirral - £3,213,523

18. Wigan £16,633,691

19. Crewe £14,148,128

20. Rochdale £17,080,458

21. Farnworth, Bolton £13,306,817

22. Oldham £10,750,237

23. Kirkham, Fylde - £6,290,831

24. Maryport, Allerdale - £11,527,839

25. Carlisle £9,129,874

26. Plymouth £12,046,873

27. Barnstable £6,548,876

28. Newton Abbot £9,199,364

29. Paignton £13,363,248

30. Kingswood £12,555,464

31. Salisbury £9,355,731

32. Penzance £10,403, 112

33. Trowbridge £16,347,056

34. Yeovil £9,756,897

35. Taunton £13,962,981

36. Loftus £5,833,628

37. Middlesbrough £14,170,352

38. Stockton £16,543,812

39. South Shields £5,959,187

40. Derby, St Peters Cross £15,034,398

41. Sutton-in-Ashfield £6,279,872

42. Grantham £5,558,818

43. Grimsby £17,280,917

44. Nottingham, West End Point £12,523,981

45. Heanor £8,592,837

46. Northampton £8,442,730

47. Buxton £6,608,223

48. Dover £3,202,226

49. Newhaven £5,004,939

50. Chatham £9,497,720

51. Ramsgate £2,704,213

52. Commercial Road, Portsmouth £3,122,375

53. Fratton, Portsmouth £3,858,489

54. High Wycombe £11,886,876

55. St Neots £3,748,815

56. March, Fenland £6,447,129

57. Great Yarmouth £13,774,430

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A new YouGov Omnibus survey finds that banks and post offices are the most desired high street institutions

New data from YouGov Omnibus can reveal which shops Britons are most keen to see as they stroll down their local high street.

From a list of 26 types of shops YouGov provided, there are 19 that the majority of Brits say they would want to see on their ideal high street.

Topping the list are banks and post offices, with 92% of Brits saying they would feature on the high street of their dreams.

Despite their popularity, a recent report by the BBC has revealed that both these institutions are among those disappearing most rapidly from the streets of Britain: there was a decrease of 711 banks and financial institutions in 2017 (the second highest) while 577 post offices and services were lost (the fourth highest).

Also in high demand on Britons' ideal high streets are pharmacies (91%), restaurants/cafes (90%), clothes shops (87%), newsagents (84%), homeware stores (82%), barbers/hairdressers (81%) and book stores (80%).

There is one common high street store that Britons are very clear they don't want to see, however. Only 15% of Brits say a betting shop would be a welcome sight on their ideal high street - in fact, 73% of Brits say they specifically do not want them on their ideal high street.

Young and old have different visions the high street

The results reveal that the different generations have very different visions of the ideal high street, reflecting the differences in purchasing habits between young and old.

Older people (those aged 65 and over) are substantially more likely than their youngest peers (those aged 18-24) to want to be greeted by the sight of travel agents (+28 percentage points more likely), newsagent (+27), homeware (+27), book store (+23), post office (+23), pharmacies (+19), launderettes (+19), and banks (+18).

Younger people, for their part, are much more likely to want access to fast food restaurants/takeaways (+23 percentage points), as well as music/movie/video game stores (+13) and a cinema (+13).

Women favour beauty salons, men bookies and booze stores

There are notable differences between the genders' ideal high streets. Women are significantly more likely than men to want beauty salons (+20 percentage points more likely), as well as charity shops (+12), coffee shops (+11) and book stores (+10).

In comparison, the shops men are most likely to want to see when compared to women are bookies and off licences/alcohol stores (+9 percentage points more likely in both cases).

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Britain's High Streets are getting unhealthier, according to a report analysing 70 major UK towns and cities.

The Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) ranked High Streets with more payday lenders, bookmakers, tanning salons and fast food outlets the worst.

Grimsby led the unhealthy High Street list ahead of Walsall and Blackpool, while Edinburgh, Canterbury and Taunton had the healthiest outlets.

There was a clear link between deprived areas and unhealthy High Streets.

Outlets that were considered healthy included leisure centres, health services, libraries, museums and art galleries.

The report also considered pubs and bars as being a positive presence on the High Street because they are centres for social interaction.

However, pubs are in decline and many people are using the UK's 22,000 coffee shops as places to socialise, eat and drink instead.

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The number of fast-food outlets on UK streets rose by 4,000 between 2014 and 2017, mostly in deprived areas.

The links between typically high-fat fast food, weight gain and obesity are well documented. Fast food outlets sometimes engage in what the RSPH report calls "upselling"; where staff are trained to persuade customers to buy additional or larger portions.

Payday lenders and bookmakers were considered unhealthy businesses because of the "devastating consequences" debt can have on health as well as on family and work life, the report said.

London's High Streets were not considered in the report, as they have been ranked separately.

The UK's 10 unhealthiest High Streets are:

The UK's 10 healthiest High Streets are:

The report paints a picture of the rapidly changing British High Street dominated by cafes and coffee shops, convenience stores, off-licences, vape shops and boarded-up premises.

Vape shops were counted as a 'healthier' business, because of their role in discouraging smoking. However, the report added the "precise long-term effects of vaping are unknown".
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Shirley Cramer, RSPH chief executive said: "When our time and money are converted into a loss at the bookmaker, a tan from a sunbed, a high-cost loan or a bucket of fried chicken, the High Street is enabling and supporting poor health behaviours.

"Our Health on the High Street rankings illustrate how unhealthy businesses concentrate in areas which already experience higher levels of deprivation, obesity and lower life expectancy.

"Reshaping these High Streets to be more health-promoting could serve as a tool to help redress this imbalance."

How were the high streets evaluated?

The RSPH developed what they call the "Richter Scale of Health" to evaluate the high streets.

Each business was scored on the basis of whether it encouraged healthy lifestyle choices, promoted social interaction, mental wellbeing and greater access to health services.

Scores ranged between 8 and -4. Pubs, for example, scored 2 and libraries scored 5. Empty premises and tanning shops scored -1 and fast food shops -2.

The scores for each outlet on the high street were added up and then divided by the total number of businesses on each street to reach a final score.

The rise in online retail is linked to the growing numbers of empty premises, which have increased from 7% in 2007 to 11% in 2017.

This year the High Street has seen several big name closures including Toys R Us and Maplin and, in this week's Budget, Chancellor Philip Hammond cut the business rates for small retailers, and proposed a new tax on online retailers in an effort to boost physical shops.

However industry bodies said the changes didn't go far enough.

The RSPH is calling for further measures including urging local authorities to make vacant properties publicly accessible for what is known as "meanwhile use" - pop-up art galleries or community centres.

The London rankings showed that the borough of Haringey boasted both the most unhealthy street, West Green Road in Seven Sisters, and the healthiest one, in Muswell Hill.

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Work on a multi-million pound renovation of a Cambridgeshire town centre is due to finish later this year. The St Neots Town Centre Improvements project began in January 2024.

The project will see the town's Market Square expanded, with car parking removed and new disabled spaces, landscaping as well as a community space being created. Improvements will also be made along the High Street and town bridge.

A spokesperson for Huntingdonshire District Council confirmed that most of the building work on the project was completed. This includes improvements to Huntingdon Street crossroads, Church Walk crossing, as well as the resurfacing of the carriageway along the High Street and New Street.

Work in the Market Square is largely complete on the north side. Rain garden construction and slab laying are both continuing on the south side.

Footway paving has also begun on the bridge, along with the installation of the new electrical system in the Market Square. The latter will be used for markets and events.

The project is due to be completed in April 2025. You can take a look in our gallery down below for the latest photos of the works.
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Retail Indicators I. Identifying ‘clone towns’ across the UK | CDRC Data

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The Government confirmed today that following the bid to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), Huntingdonshire District Council has secured over £3.7 million in funding from the Future High Streets Fund to invest in St Neots. The funding enables the district council to d…

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Data visualisation: A crime map of Cambridgeshire by Adele Gilpin

"Data is the new oil..." is a phrase often used by those in the industry to describe the vast, valuable and extremely powerful resource available to us. We generate an astronomical amount of data, in fact 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone according to IBM. However, there is a real skills gap when it comes to working with the data - people often perceive it as being too complicated or intimidating to work with, while those who can extract it, process it and refine it will reap the rewards.

Data is readily available if you know where to look for it. The UK Government's data.gov.uk site opens up datasets on the environment, health and education and often these datasets come cleansed without the need to process it too much (though I would always advise the cleansing and scrutiny of data regardless of source!). As a Cambridgeshire resident, I am very lucky to have access to Cambridgeshire Insight Open Data, which is a repository of open data relating to local matters and is managed by Cambridgeshire County Council and run by a local partnership. I therefore wanted to have a go at playing around with the data and utilising the numerous free tools available to explore and visualise it with the hope of making it more accessible - let's face it, there's more to life than staring at a spreadsheet!

My first project will be looking at crime figures in the county and projecting them on to a map, by council ward, using an online tool called Carto. The data will be sourced from the Cambridgeshire Crime Rates and Counts 2015/16 data set on the Cambridgeshire Insight Open Data site and I will be focusing on the data related to the rate of crimes per 1,000 population at ward and district level. The data I'm using can be found in column "CU" in the Excel sheet.

The benefit of looking at the rate instead of raw numbers is that it means the stats aren't skewed by heavily populated areas e.g. I would expect the number of crimes in heavily populated areas to be higher than those in remote rural communities, but as the rate takes in to account the population within the area, it provides a more accurate measure.

The mapping processes behind Carto aren't sophisticated enough to recognise a council ward name in data (yet), but it does allow you to overlay KML data meaning that the wards can be "drawn" on to the map in a new layer. Where does this KML data come from? Surely we don't have to create it ourselves? Heh, don't be silly, someone has already done all of the hard work for us (phew!) - thank you to Alasdair Rae, a Lecturer in the Department of Town and Regional Planning at the University of Sheffield who created it for an article in the Guardian and a spreadsheet containing all of the KML shapes of all council wards in England can be downloaded via a Google Fusion table.

I then matched up the wards, by name, between the two sheets and pulled out the KML code for each one and the resulting sheet can be found here. From here, everything can be done from within Carto so create yourself a free account and prepare to be dazzled!

There are plenty of Carto tutorials but there are essentially two sides to the tool: the dataset side (where the data can be uploaded) and the mapping side (where the maps connect to your existing datasets). The great thing about Carto is that your maps can be embedded in your own website so hey presto, here's the resulting map.

I hope to make this a regular series of small tutorials about data visualisation and the use of open data so check back in a few months to see what else I have been up to!
Disclaimer: Adele Gilpin is employed by Cambridgeshire County Council, though she has no links with the Insight Open Data team.
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All Geography starts with someone going into the field to find out what's there. This section will help you to gather the primary data (data you collect yourself) and secondary data (data collected by someone else) that will support your analysis and conclusions.

Characteristics of urban places

1. Urban drifting

This is a useful way to explore places. The aim is to take a journey through a place and make a record of what you experience.

Try taking a large scale street map of a city and trace out a circle on it. Your task is to walk as close to the edge of the circle as you can. Or create a random walk. You could roll a dice at each road intersection to decide which way to turn.

Urban drifting. Exploring Birmingham city centre by © OpenStreetMap contributors / Open Database Licence.

Exploring Birmingham city centre by tracing circles. The number, size and location of the circles is up to you.

On your journey though the place, make a record of what you see, hear and smell. Stop regularly to make written notes. You could also take photographs or a video recording of the journey.

2. Placechecks

Placechecks is another way to start exploring a place. You can find out much more at the Placechecks website.

Imagine that you are a local resident. For each location that you visit, ask:

What do you like?

What things need protecting?

What don't you like?

What needs changing now?

What problems are getting worse?

The Placechecks walkabout has a list of 21 questions to ask to help explore what makes places special.

3. Townscape survey

Historic England have developed the Historic Area Assessment.

A historic townscape. Chester by Smabs / CC BY.

This helps assess the character and significance of historic areas, such as town centres, older suburbs or villages. Here is an example of a completed Historic Area Assessment recording sheet.

Image by Historic England.

4. Clone Town survey

The New Economics Foundation (NEF) have argued that shopping streets in Britain are steadily becoming more similar. These Clone Towns are dominated by a narrow range of chain stores rather than independent shops.

Yorkshire Relics by Bryan Ledgard / CC BY.

Use a GOAD map and/or a pilot survey of the town to determine the boundaries of the shopping areas of each town. Include all indoor shopping centres.

Visit all streets in the shopping area and categorise every shop into 1 of 25 categories using the NEF survey form on page 45 of this report. Carry out this work methodically, making a careful note of when streets have been surveyed. Use the formula on page 44 of the same report to determine whether your town is a Clone Town or not.

Retail value

As well as making an overall survey of the degree of cloning, it is possible to look at individual streets of the town centre in more detail. There are likely to be areas of higher and lower retail quality. One way in which this can be done is to choose a study area, then score each shop within the area as follows

This is based on the assumption that large shops like department stores act as 'anchors', attracting many shoppers, while smaller shops have a lower attractive pull. Add all the scores together to calculate the retail value for the area. Worked example

In this example, High Street has a higher retail value (80) than Market Street (39).

Characteristics of rural places

5. Rural character survey

Natural England have classified England's rural landscape into 159 National Character Areas (NCAs).

For example, NCAs in south-west England include Mendip Hills, Isle of Portland and Dorset Heaths. Many county and district councils have subdivided NCAs into smaller units; for example, Devon County Council.

Choose at least 5 survey sites around the location, possibly randomly. Design a booking sheet which will allow you to collect information on both the natural environment and the cultural landscape. An example of a booking sheet is shown below.

Perceptions of place

6. Questionnaires

East London by Field Studies Council.

Questionnaires are useful for finding out more about people's

characteristics (e.g age, sex, place of residence)

behaviour (e.g. usage of the coast)

attitudes (e.g. do they agree with a scheme for managed retreat?)

An effective questionnaire contains a mixture of closed and open questions:

Closed questions: answers are limited to single words, numbers of listed options

e.g. "Do you feel safe in Church Street at 8pm?

Possible answers YES or NO

Closed questions can also be given as a statement. Responses are limited to positions on a scale. There are two ways of presenting statements:

(i) Semantic differential scale - use pairs of words and a scale from negative to positive.

e.g. What do you think of the village of Horton-in-Ribblesdale?

Ugly -2 -1 0 +1 +2 Beautiful

Boring -2 -1 0 +1 +2 Lots to do

Dead -2 -1 0 +1 +2 Vibrant

(ii) Likert scale - ask participants whether they agree or disagree with a series of statements. Use statements with a balance of positive and negative.

e.g. "I do not feel in danger walking around Stokesley in the evening.

Answers: Strongly agree / Agree / Don't know / Disagree / Strongly disagree

(iii) Rating - ask participants to rank a small number of categories from most important to least important.

e.g. What was your main reason your chose to live in this neighbourhood? Please rank the following statements from 1 (most important) to 6 (least important)

Answers: proximity to work, proximity to family and friends, proximity to schools, housing costs, pleasant environment, good place to raise children

Open questions: responses may be long and detailed. Often it is a good idea to word the question so that people could respond with positive answers, negative answers or a mixture of the two. Asking participants to focus on a specific area or time frame may be more effective than just asking "Any other comments?" or "What do you think about this town?" at the end of a questionnaire.

e.g. "Do you think this town will get better or worse in the next 20 years? Why?"

7. Interviews

A properly conducted interview is more than just having a chat with someone. It needs to be carefully planned. You should take detailed notes or, even better, with the particpants' permission make an audio or video recording so that you can type up a transcript of the event.

(a) Interview strategies

Interviews can be structured, semi-structured or unstructured. In a structured interview, each participant is asked the same questions in the same order. In an unstructured interview, you set a focus for the interview with perhaps one or two introductory questions to break the ice, but allow the discussion to develop naturally. A semi-structured interview is a combination of the two approaches, with some pre-prepared questions but with time for discussion.

If you are using the structured or semi-structured route, prepare a typed list of questions beforehand. 6-8 questions is a realistic aim for a 30 minute interview. If you are using the unstructured route, prepare a list of general issues that you would like to cover in the interview. This will help you steer the discussion so that it covers all the issues, as otherwise conversations may drift.

(b) Choosing people to interview

Interviews can also be carried out individually or in groups. They can be carried out face-to-face, over the telephone or online (e.g. by Skype). Focus groups are a type of unstructured or semi-structured interview in which a group of people discuss topics defined by a researcher.

It is impractical to select a representative sample of people to interview. Instead use non-probability sampling, in which the sample is selected through the subjective judgment of the reseacher. There are three techniques:

Convenience sampling: select people who are easy to reach, e.g. interview existing contacts, such as friends and neighbours.

Snowball sampling: select at least two people. Ask each person to help you find more interviewees. Continue finding new people until you have achieved your desired sample size.

Quota sampling: deliberately select a proportionate number of people from each part of the population.

(c) Choosing questions to ask

There are two issues to consider here: what types of questions that you want to ask, and the order in which you want to ask them.

Consider the following types of question:

(i) Descriptive: questions which ask for facts about people, places and experiences, e.g. "How long have you lived in this town?"

(ii) Storytelling: questions that ask participants to put events in order, e.g. "Can you tell me how this town has changed since you first moved here?"

(iii) Opinion: questions that ask about perceptions and feelings, e.g. "Is there enough for teenagers to do in this town in the evening?"

(iv) Stuctural: questions that ask people to reflect on why they hold particular opinions, e.g. "How do you think you came to hold that opinion?"

(v) Contrast: questions that ask people to put themselves in someone else's shoes, e.g "Would you think differently about how safe the town centre if you were male/female/elderly/young?"

Often the hardest part of the interview is the start. Careful ordering of questions will help you build up rapport with the participants and maintain momentum over the course of the whole interview. Think of the interview are structured like a pyramid, with the easy-to-answer descriptive questions near the start and the most abstract questions (like structural and contrast questions) near the end. Ensure a polite finish (e.g. "Thanks for your time. You've given me some really useful information from this interview").

Some interviewees will be more chatty than others. Nudge less chatty interviewees with prompt questions (e.g. "What do you mean by that?" when an answer is unclear or incomplete). Eye contact, smiling and nodding will let the interviewee know that you are interested in what they have to say, and will encourage them to say more - don't yawn at them!

8. Mental mapping

The most likely victim of street crime in Britain is a man aged 16-24 (Office for National Statistics). But the fear of crime is different; it is to do with perception. You could investigate this through questionnaires, or by asking people to construct mental maps.

Mental mapping is a technique which allows you to collect a lot of quantitative data on people's perceptions of space. Mental maps are particularly useful to capturing data on whether people perceive places as threatening, unsafe or otherwise undesirable.

Photocopy a base map of different places in an area, such as 10 contrasting wards in a city. Ask each participant to colour in each place on the following scale. Remind participants that they should be thinking about 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.

This place is always unsafe - colour in RED

This place is sometimes unsafe - colour in ORANGE

I don't know this place - colour in BLUE

This place is mostly safe - colour in YELLOW

This place is always safe - colour in GREEN

Lived experience of place

9. Observation studies

Observation is about watching what people do in particular places. Observational data is commonly recorded as notes, sketches or audio/video recordings. It is a very useful tool for finding out more about people's lived experience of places.

An observation study is straightforward to carry out in an area which can be seen in full, such as a town square or small park. But this is not the only way. Sensory mapping and pedestrian counts are also forms of observation studies.

Record the number of users in the site over a time period (perhaps 30 minutes or 1 hour). Then you can do either or both of the following:

First classify them by age, sex and activity (e.g. shopper, delivery worker, dog walker). Use symbols and abbreviations to allow you to record observations quickly. This could be as simple as e.g. 65+ F Sh, for a female shopper aged over 65.

Second use a base map, and attempt to trace the movement across the site made by a sample of the site users.

Broadly there are three ways that you can carry out observation studies:

(i) Naturalistic observation: observing people in their natural environment. For example you could sit on a park bench to observe users in a park, or at a coffee shop with outdoor seating to observe users in a town square. Your aim is to be as unobtrusive as possible, so as not to influence people's behaviour.

(ii) Participant observation: observing behaviour as a participant in a group. For example you could carry out a paper delivery round and watch people's use of space at the same time. If you have a part-time job in a shop or café you could use this as an opportunity to observe people's behaviour around you. If you belong to a sports club or gym, you could use the opportunity to construct an observation study around that (e.g. do people who take part in a running club have a different lived experience of a local place compared to people who do not?)

(iii) Controlled observation: observing behaviour under certain conditions and/or at certain times. You could, for example, decide only to observe certain types of behaviour in a park (such as dog walking) and ignore other behaviours. Or you could observe at specific times of day (e.g. Saturday morning 9-12). All controls on the observation need to be justified.

Pedestrian surveys are a type of observation study.

Heavy pedestrian footfall. Piccadilly Circus by Manhattan Research / CC BY.

Think about which day of the week to count pedestrians. Pedestrian numbers are likely to be higher on a Saturday or Sunday then during the week, during school holidays, during dry weather and if there is a popular event happening in the city centre

Time of day is also important. Pedestrian numbers are likely to be higher during "rush hours" (like 8am-9am) or shift changes and during office lunchtime. Around 11am and 2.30pm are often good times to choose.

You need at least 20-25 survey points. Choose survey points across the city centre. If you are working in groups, each group can walk different routes across the city centre.

This is up to you, but make sure that you survey in the same way each time. Think about

How long to count pedestrians for - 2 minutes is enough. If your survey points are close together (perhaps every 100 metres), you might be able to do 3 or 4 pedestrian counts in 10 minutes.

Whether to count people on one side of the road or both sides of the road - if you are working in groups, different members of the group could count different sides of the road, with someone else holding a stopwatch.

11. Sensory mapping

Sensory mapping is a type of observation study. It a great way to get a handle people's lived experience of places. What do they see? What do they hear? What do they smell? What do they feel about particular places?

Here are two ideas that you could consider:

(a) Mapping smell and smellscapes - Smelly Maps is a project to classify the smell of different urban areas, both good and bad. The Aroma Wheel below ( link to pdf) was developed for cities in the USA, but could be simplified and adapted to both urban and rural areas.

Aroma wheel by Kate McLean.

(b) Mapping sound and soundscapes

Sound levels (i.e. loudness) can be measured using a decibel meter. Smartphone noise meter apps are also available.

At the same tide as loudness is measured, you can also record the sources of noise if you can identify them (e.g. traffic - engine noise, gear changes, rolling contact with road surfaces; natural sounds like birdsong and wind) and the frequency of each sound. One way to standardise this method is to spend 2 minutes standing still at each site and noting the loudness, direction, distance and source of each noise that you hear.

Secondary data sources

1. Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD)
N 2015 English IMD Explorer eighbourhood Statistics
2. Natural landscape

3. Cultural landscape

Settlement patterns and field shapes can be seen on a 1:25000 OS map

Victoria County History victoriacountyhistory.ac.uk

Genuki: a gateway to access historic information for most small settlements in England www.genuki.org.uk

4. Historic townscapes

Archives of the Extensive Urban Surveys project http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/EUS/

England-wide programme of surveys into the archeology, historic buildings and townscapes of towns and cities. Can be searched by county. Some counties have not yet been completed.

5. Historic landscapes

Archives of the Historic Landscape Characterisation project

England-wide programme of surveys into the landscapes of historic places, both rural and urban. Can be searched by county or smaller area. For example, the Black Country Historic Landscape Characterisation includes text, maps and GIS for the historic urban and industrial landscapes of Woleverhampton, Walsall, Sandwell and Dudley. Some counties have not yet been completed.

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St Neots £15m regeneration has had ‘negative impact’ on trade

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What is the life expectancy in YOUR area?

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Your postcode can impact your life expectancy - use our interactive map to find out the average in your area

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The UK has a shocking postcode lottery when it comes to life expectancy, with children born in some areas predicted to live 18 years longer than in others