Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Cambourne Case Study
- KQ4: SUSTAINABILITY
- Facts
- 9 miles west of Cambridge
- Still being built - planning permission for
3,400 home in total but plans to build
(possibly another 2,000) more
- Has hotel, business park, shops
- Comforts of modern world
in tradition style village
- 1/2 a million people expected to
move into East Anglia in the next
10 years
- Strengths and Opportunities
- Social
- Community sprirt
- Book groups, sport clubs and
volunteering centre
- Good local services
- Doctor surgery, secondary school
- Economic
- Local shops, restaurants and businesses
- Creates jobs
- Close to Cambridge
- Provides workers and jobs
- Affordable housing
- Environmental
- "Eco-town"
- More energy efficient
- e.g. Triple glazing
- Bus service
- More environmentally sustainable than cars
- Weaknesses and Problems
- Social
- Overburdened medical centre
- Few amenities for young people
- Lead to groups of young
people hanging around which
upset locals
- Housing is very desirable and so there is high competition
- Very high birth rate
- Environmental
- Rush hour traffic is very bad
- A14 and busses get very congested getting into Cambridge
- Not on guided bus and no train closer than Cambridge
- Economic
- Few jobs in Cambourne
as proportion of residents
- Very dependant on large private chain companies
- e.g. Morrisons