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Methodology ideas, research and information. How could you adapt these ideas to suit your own investigation? Remember you aren't limited to the ideas below!

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Sources of information and research can inform your investigation in Dorking or provide a source of secondary data.

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Further reading material for topic of Regeneration that can help form investigation ideas.

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Comprehensive list of Place fieldwork methods.

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Various models and frameworks that can be used for an urban enquiry.

Egan Wheel

Urban Sustainability

Liveability and Healthy Streets

What makes a great place

‘Community Spirit Level

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The Place Standard tool is a way of assessing places. | Our Place

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Whether the place is well-established, undergoing change, or is still being planned, the tool can help you.

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Experiential 8-way place thinking fieldwork

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Experiential 8-way place thinking fieldwork

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Helps to explore different ways of understanding and experiencing a place (Gilbert, I. 2006)

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These are methods which are used by geographers on specific field days run by FSC Juniper Hall. They are not a pick and choose for NEA without justification and/or further developments

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Project for Public Places 2018

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Great public spaces are those places where celebrations are held, social and economic exchanges occur, friends run into each other, and cultures mix. They are the "front porches" of our public institutions - libraries, field houses, schools - where we interact with each other and government. When these spaces work well, they serve as the stage for our public lives.

What makes some places succeed while others fail?

In evaluating thousands of public spaces around the world, PPS has found that to be successful, they generally share the following four qualities: they are accessible; people are engaged in activities there; the space is comfortable and has a good image; and finally, it is a sociable place: one where people meet each other and take people when they come to visit. PPS developed The Place Diagram below as a tool to help people in judging any place, good or bad.

Access & Linkages

You can judge the accessibility of a place by its connections to its surroundings, both visual and physical. A successful public space is easy to get to and get through; it is visible both from a distance and up close. The edges of a space are important as well: For instance, a row of shops along a street is more interesting and generally safer to walk by than a blank wall or empty lot. Accessible spaces have a high parking turnover and, ideally, are convenient to public transit. Read more.

Questions to consider on Access & Linkages:

Can you see the space from a distance? Is its interior visible from the outside?

Is there a good connection between the space and the adjacent buildings, or is it surrounded by blank walls? Do occupants of adjacent buildings use the space?

Can people easily walk to the place? For example, do they have to dart between moving cars to get to the place?

Do sidewalks lead to and from the adjacent areas?

Does the space function for people with special needs?

Do the roads and paths through the space take people where they actually want to go?

Can people use a variety of transportation options - bus train, car, bicycle, etc. - to reach the place?

Are transit stops conveniently located next to destinations such as libraries, post offices, park entrances, etc.?

Comfort & Image

Whether a space is comfortable and presents itself well - has a good image - is key to its success. Comfort includes perceptions about safety, cleanliness, and the availability of places to sit - the importance of giving people the choice to sit where they want is generally underestimated. Read more.

Questions to consider on Comfort & Image:

Does the place make a good first impression?

Are there more women than men?

Are there enough places to sit? Are seats conveniently located? Do people have is a choice of places to sit, either in the sun or shade?

Are spaces are clean and free of litter? Who is responsible for maintenance? What do they do? When?

Does the area feel safe? Is there a security presence? If so, what do these people do? When are they on duty?

Are people taking pictures? Are there many photo opportunities available?

Do vehicles dominate pedestrian use of the space, or prevent them from easily getting to the space?

Uses & Activities

Activities are the basic building blocks of great places: They are the reasons why people visit in the first place, and why they continue to return. They are also what makes a place special or unique. When there is nothing to do in a place, it will sit empty and unused-a sure sign something needs to change. Read more.

Principles to keep in mind in evaluating the uses and activities of a place:

The more activities that are going and that people have an opportunity to participate in, the better.

There is a good balance between men and women.

People of different ages are using the space (retired people and people with young children can use a space during the day when others are working).

The space is used throughout the day.

A space that is used by both singles and people in groups is better than one that is just used by people alone because it means that there are places for people to sit with friends, there is more socializing, and it is more fun.

The ultimate determinant of a place's success is how well it is managed.

Questions to consider on Uses & Activities:

Are people using the space or is it empty?

Is it used by people of different ages?

Are people in groups?

How many different types of activities are occurring - people walking, eating, playing baseball, chess, relaxing, reading?

Which parts of the space are used and which are not?

Are there choices of things to do?

Is there a management presence, or can you identify anyone is in charge of the space?
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Sociability

This is a difficult quality for a place to achieve, but once attained it becomes an unmistakable feature. When people see friends, meet and greet their neighbors, and feel comfortable interacting with strangers, they tend to feel a stronger sense of place or attachment to their community - and to the place that fosters these types of social activities. Read more.

Project for Public Spaces was thrilled to bring placemaking to the Fulton County Library System. During the opening launch of the All Access Library, kids gathered to enjoy a live magic show centered around the joy of reading. Credit: Fulton County Library System

Questions to consider on Sociability:

Is this a place where you would choose to meet your friends? Are others meeting friends here or running into them?

Are people in groups? Are they talking with one another?

Do people seem to know each other by face or by name?

Do people bring their friends and relatives to see the place or do they point to one of its features with pride?

Are people smiling? Do people make eye contact with each other?

Do people use the place regularly and by choice?

Does a mix of ages and ethnic groups that generally reflect the community at large?

Do people tend to pick up litter when they see it?

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In evaluating thousands of public spaces around the world, PPS has found that successful ones have four key qualities.

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What comes first; a successful high street or successful employment/industries?

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City centres: past, present and future - Centre for Cities

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The recent focus on struggling high streets ignores the success of well-performing city centres and misdiagnoses the real problem: a lack of high-skill jobs

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The number of empty shops in town centres has reached its highest level since 2015, figures have shown.

The national vacancy rate was 10.3 per cent in July, the highest since January 2015, according to the BRC (British Retail Consortium) Springboard footfall and vacancies monitor.

Footfall also fell by 1.9 per cent last month, marking the worst decline for July since 2012.

Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the BRC, said retailers had faced a "challenging environment".

"High streets and town centres play an important part in our local communities, and we should be concerned by the rise in empty store fronts," she said.

The figures showed that high street footfall declined by 2.7 per cent last month, while footfall at shopping centres fell by 3.1 per cent.

Retail parks fared better, with a 1.2 per cent increase in footfall.

Diane Wehrle, marketing and insights director at Springboard, said the rising vacancy rate "highlighted the ongoing challenges faced by bricks and mortar destinations".

She added: "Consumer demand is ever more polarised between convenience and experience, and the stronger performance of out-of-town destinations reflects the fact that retail parks are successfully bridging the convenience-experience gap.

"They not only offer consumers accessible shopping environments with free parking and easy click-and-collect opportunities for online purchases, but many also combine this with an enhanced experience that includes coffee shops and casual dining restaurants, and some also have leisure facilities."

Ms Dickinson urged the government to take action to relieve the pressure on the high street.

"Currently, retail accounts for 5 per cent of the economy, yet pays 10 per cent of all business costs and 25 per cent of all business taxes," she said.

"The rising vacancy figures show this is simply not sustainable. We need an immediate freeze in rates, as well as fixing the transitional relief, which leads to corner shops in Redcar subsidising banks in central London."

Last month was also the worst July on record for year-on-year growth in total retail sales.

Figures from the BRC-KPMG retail sales monitor published earlier this month showed sales edged up by just 0.3 per cent year on year in July, compared with an increase of 1.6 per cent in July 2018.

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One in 10 British high street shops now empty

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The number of empty shops in town centres has reached its highest level since 2015, figures have shown. The national vacancy rate was 10.3 per cent in July, the highest since January 2015, according to the BRC (British Retail Consortium) Springboard footfall and vacancies monitor.

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NEF 2005

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Does the supermarket of a town reflect its sense of place? Or does its sense of place attract the supermarket?

https://www.my5.tv/m-s-vs-waitrose-which-is-better-value/season-1/m-s-vs-waitrose-which-is-better-value  (Some scenes filmed in Dorking)

https://www.my5.tv/aldi-vs-lidl-supermarket-wars/season-1/aldi-vs-lidl-supermarket-wars

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The Notion of Place, Place Meaning and Identity in Urban Regeneration 

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The Notion of Place, Place Meaning and Identity in Urban Regeneration 

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Complete this worksheet before you arrive at Juniper Hall, using the Padlet and StoryMap.

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Transform Leatherhead is running the regeneration project in Leatherhead.

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Leatherhead - a friendly, vibrant and lively modern market town where people of all ages can
shop, eat, relax and have fun by the riverside.

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Skip to content Leatherhead - a friendly, vibrant and lively modern market town where people of all ages can shop, eat, relax and have fun by the riverside. This website uses cookies to improve your experience. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish.

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This is a concise summary of 4 different strategies for city based regeneration

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Overcrowding Crime Drugs Poor educational achievement

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International events are used to enhance prestige, attract private investment and to focus and motivate the city's workforce. Buildings and infrastructure constructed for the events are of very high quality and serve a double purpose: for short-term use during the event itself and as a means of regenerating a decaying area of the city in the long-term.

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Urban Regeneration Programs May Stimulate Leisure time Walking Among Adults in Deprived Areas

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Urban Regeneration Programs May Stimulate Leisure time Walking Among Adults in Deprived Areas

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The CDRC is working with consumer-related organisations to open up their data resources

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The CDRC works with private and public data suppliers to ensure efficient, effective and safe use of consumer data in social science.

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Department of Transport Road Traffic Statistics

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Department of Transport Road Traffic Statistics

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Use this website to find information about the road traffic statistics collected over the last 18 years. The data published on this website makes it available to the public, specialists and charities.

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UK Ambient Air Quality Interactive Map - Defra, UK

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This interactive tool allows you to explore ambient air quality concentration data from Defra's national Pollution Climate Mapping modelling. Read guidance on using this GIS tool (PDF - opens in a new window)

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British high streets from crisis to recovery?

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British high streets from crisis to recovery?

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User perceptions of high streets and town centres

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Local Newspaper: Dorking and Leatherhead Advertiser

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Local Newspaper: Dorking and Leatherhead Advertiser

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Leatherhead lies just off junction 9 of the M25. The town's annual drama festival boasts Sir Michael Caine as its patron, the famous actor often dishing out the awards. Nearby Headley Court Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre treats wounded soldiers. The villages of Ashtead, Bookham and Fetcham all enjoy a close-knit, community feel.

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Leatherhead lies just off junction 9 of the M25. The town's annual drama festival boasts Sir Michael Caine as its patron, the famous actor often dishing out the awards. Nearby Headley Court Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre treats wounded soldiers. The villages of Ashtead, Bookham and Fetcham all enjoy a close-knit, community feel.

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Will privatisation of UK cities rip out their hearts?

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From Liverpool to Exeter, city centres are being sold off to big companies. The streets are clean, the shops are nice - but critics fear regeneration comes at a heavy price

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Have a look through this StoryMap before arriving at Juniper Hall, to get locational context for your fieldwork.

If you are collecting you NEA data at Juniper Hall, you can begin to think about what and where you could investigate.

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An Introduction to your A-Level urban fieldwork

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NEF 2007

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Sometimes called urban drift

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is created as a simple but engaging platform that allows users to explore their urban spaces in a care-free and casual way. It takes the ideals of the Situationists and merges it with digital means in order to create a tool that would imply an exploration of urban space in a random unplanned way as a game. Too often in urban centers we are controlled by our day to day activities thus closing off urban experiences that exist around us. Dérive app was created to try to nudge those people who are in this repetitive cycle to allow the suggestions and subjectivities of others to enter into their urban existences.

The active engagement of communities in their urban spaces unleashes in them new understanding of their urban surroundings, to open up channels of dialogue between individuals and groups through a device that makes the unpacking of urban space part of a game. The task cards that are dealt are created with the intention of heightening the experience of the city for the user, by calling them out to search for specific architectural, urban or social points of interest, thus allowing users of the application to see their urban spaces in a different light.

Besides the Situationists, inspiration came from, amongst others, Near Future Laboratory and UrbanWorks.

General and City card differences

Derive app offers several decks of general urban tasks. These decks contains all directives that could be used across multiple urban spaces. The cards can be combined with whichever unique cards are created for a city.

Groups and custom decks

You can help us expand Dérive app by creating your own deck of task cards and managing your own group of players.

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Ways of discerning a 'sense of place'

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How to make better "quality" surveys for fieldwork

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How to make better "quality" surveys for fieldwork

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Ideas for improving how you assess the 'qualities' of some-thing/where.

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Do different communities of Leatherhead need different things ....

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so has regeneration addressed everyone's needs? This could give you justification for your own 'community needs index'.

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OCSI was commissioned by Local Trust to develop a quantitative measure of 'left-behind' areas (you can read the full publication to find out more about the measure). As part of this, we developed a Community Needs Index, the first composite indicator of its kind, looking at the social and cultural factors that can contribute to poorer life outcomes.

This data is now available in Local Insigh t and is the first place to publish the data for the Community Needs Index.

What is the Community Needs Index (CNI)?

The CNI is particularly exciting as it gives a different perspective to more economically based measures of local need and is a useful measure in and of itself to help policymakers target investment in social infrastructure.

The index has been developed at ward level after significant consultation and debate. The principal reason for selecting wards as the units of analysis as opposed to Lower Super Output Areas (LSOAs) was that wards align more closely with community boundaries and are of a sufficient size to cover locally recognised neighbourhoods. There is, of course, a potential risk that this can mask variations in community need at a very local level. We have run the same analysis at LSOA level and the results are broadly consistent with the ward level data.

The index covers 19 indicators, across three domains;

Civic Assets: Measures the presence of key community, civic, educational and cultural assets in close proximity of the area. These include pubs, libraries, green space, community centres, swimming pools - facilities that provide things to do often, at no or little cost, which are important to how positive a community feels about its area.

Connectedness: Measures the connectivity to key services, digital infrastructure, isolation and strength of the local jobs market. It looks at whether residents have access to key services, such as health services, within a reasonable travel distance. It considers how good public transport and digital infrastructure are and how strong the local job market is.

Active and Engaged Community: Measures the levels of third sector civic and community activity and barriers to participation and engagement. It shows whether charities are active in the area and whether people appear to be engaged in the broader civic life of their community.

For a more detailed look at the indicators included within the CNI, please have a flick through the slides below.

What's included in Local Insight?

Subscribers to Local Insight will be the first people to be able to explore this data for their areas.

We have included four new datasets in Local Insight; the scores for each individual domain and the overall CNI. In each case, a higher score indicates higher levels of community need.

Please note: As the data was developed at Ward level, we have apportioned the data in order to be able to include it within Local Insight at standard geographies.

The ward score was copied down to Output Area level (every OA in the ward got the same score) and then aggregated to all higher geographies using population weighted aggregation.

Where an LSOA fits exactly in a ward it will also have the same score as the ward it fits in.

Where an LSOA cuts across wards e.g. 60% of people in the LSOA lived in ward A and 40% in Ward B it would get 60% of ward A's score and 40% of ward B's score.

Headline findings

Geographic distribution

Local Authorities with the highest concentrations of Community Need can be found in the East of the country, particularly around the agricultural Fen areas near the Wash, the industrial areas of the East Midlands and South Yorkshire, and County Durham and in the Thames Gateway and coastal communities throughout England.

By contrast, the lowest levels of Community Need are typically found in areas in and around London, University towns and rural areas of Northern England around the major National Parks (Lake District, Yorkshire Dales and North York Moors).

Community Need vs. Index of Multiple Deprivation

There is a strong relationship between deprivation and Community Need, with the 10% of wards with the highest levels of Community Need having the highest average deprivation score (30.1). This relationship is consistent across the decile groups (i.e. on average, the higher the level of Community Need, the higher the level of overall deprivation).

However, there are a large number of areas where this relationship does not hold as strong. The chart shows that while there is a positive relationship between Community Need and levels of deprivation, there are a large number of areas classified as having high levels of Community Need and low levels of deprivation and vice versa.

112 wards (1.5%) ranked among the most deprived 20% on the IMD that are ranked among the least deprived 20% in terms of Community Need.

By contrast, there are 126 wards (1.7%) ranked among the least deprived 20% on the IMD that are among the most deprived 20% in terms of Community Need.

Explore the data for yourself

A subscription to Local Insight gives you instant access to more than 1000 local level datasets (including the newly published Community Needs Index).

You can create any bespoke areas that you like, from wards and parishes to GP localities and service catchment areas. All of the data is aggregated to these areas, ready for you to explore through maps, dashboard and reports.

Local Insight is designed to be easy to use & intuitive - so you don't need to be a statistician to find the contextual information about the communities you work with.

If you'd like to find out more about how a subscription could work for you, please give us a call on 01273 810270 or sign up for a demo and one of our team will be in touch.
Full report and analysis: 'Left behind? Understanding communities on the edge'

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Community Needs Index - measuring social and cultural factors - OCSI

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Mole Valley Village and Town Centre Study

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Mole Valley Village and Town Centre Study

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Roger Tym and Partners (2007) and (2010)

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Originals are in Leatherhead Library. Make sure you download and extract files before using.

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Compiled by Surrey County Council

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Compiled by Surrey County Council

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Transform Leatherhead

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