Where Will I Live? - Sustainable Communities
| School/Scheme | Understanding to be developed about 'sustainable communities' | Questions to develop understanding |
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Westholme School, A Geographical Mystery |
Communities are diverse and complex. | How sustainable is it to have such a large house price differential in such a small area? |
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Habergham High School What makes an area good or bad? |
Some views about sustainability are more powerful than others and dominate policy and decision-making. | Who decides the policies that determine the future priorities of a place? |
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Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar Where would you be willing to live? |
The ideas of what makes a sustainable community will change over time. It is not a fixed idea. | Why might were you want to live be different at different stages of your life? |
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Ivy Bank Business and Technology College Urban Change |
National priorities have local impacts. | What are some reasonable alternative futures for housing in our place? |
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Colne Primet High School Environmental Quality |
Quality of life is a contested idea. The aspiration of sustainable communities might not bring benefits for all. | Why is the social and economic situation in Pendle and the Ribble Valley so different? |
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Edge End High School What is all the fuss about? |
Different people have different understandings of what a sustainable community might be. | Do the national policies recognise local priorities and needs? |
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Coleridge Community School and Parkside Community School Marshall's Airfield |
A sustainable community could include plants, animals as well as people. | Has any analysis been done on the effects that the airfield development might have on plants and animals? |
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Sawston Village College New housing developments |
The environment can have a stronger affect on the quality of life of some groups in society more than others. | Why is the housing market so different in East Lancashire and South Cambridgeshire? |
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St Bede’s Inter-Church Schools and Chesterton Community College Perceptions of places |
People can conflict over the way that an environment is changed or managed. | Do the people that make the decisions to change a place live with the outcomes of the final decision? |
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Hills Road Sixth Form College Managing Urban Environments |
Some views of what is a sustainable community dominate over others. | Can re-urbanisation work? |
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Comberton Village College and Saffron Walden High School Sustainable Cambridge? |
Sustainability is an idea about which many people have differing opinions. Some opinions are more informed than others. | What are some of the problems with building North Stowe? |
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Chesterton Community College Housing Design and Housing Needs |
Different groups of people in different places debate and dispute the future of sustainable communities. | Why is sustainability such an important concept for this century? |
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