Portsmouth Fieldwork (HUMAN)

To evaluate the effects of regeneration on the locality

The regeneration of Portsmouth has had a positive impact on the locality

Portsmouth is a port city and naval base on England's south coast in the county of Hampshire. Fratton is a residential and formerly industrial area of Portsmouth. It consists of mostly Victorian terraced houses. Gunwharf Quays is a designer shopping outlet that is located along the west coast of Portsmouth which overlooks the Solent and Gosport.

it is easily accessible as it is 55.4 miles away from the school so we can repeat the study if needed. St Mary's hospital is near by if medical care is needed. there are no accessibility limits as they are all public places so are safe to visit.

Lots of facilities were created for the people of Portsmouth

Shopping areas in Fratton and the main high street became run down

Gunwharf Quay has over the last two years increased its combined recycling and reuse performance from 48% to 75%

It was used as a storage area for weapons for the navy and army but this was disbanded and it fell into disuse. The Ministry of Defense sold the land to the Portsmouth City Council who regenerated the area to increase the number of visitors and therefore investment

its proves the hypothesis as the regeneration of the area means the houses are in a nicer location and higher demand due to the rising population but could also disprove it as housing prices rising could have a negative impact on the people already living in the area

The housing prices were collected as secondary data from Zoopla for two areas, allowing us to investigate the differences between them and measure the impacts of regeneration on the city.

we waked in single file and faced oncoming traffic to reduce the risk of road traffic accidents and worked in groups of at least 3 in case of accidents

systematic

bipolar survey and environmental quality survey

benefit - it gives a general idea of the opinion of the population living in the area and has a numerical scale so the data can be compared between sites

benefit - it allows a wide range of areas to be covered and easily assessed so the data is more reliable and consistent and anomalies can be clearly identified

as compound graphs so we can easily compare the results

In Fratton the points we were assessing gave us a mean score of -0.012, with a total score of -1. This tells us that the environmental quality of Fratton is generally poor. the data from Fratton was much lower than Gunwharf Quays.

In Gunwharf Quays the points we were assessing gave us a mean score of 0.099, with a total score of 8. This tells us that the environmental quality of Gunwharf Quays was better due to the regeneration that has occurred in this area.

as a scatter graph so we could compare two sets of data (EQS score and distance from Fratton) to see if there is a positive correlation, as well as being able to use a line of best fit to identify any anomalies in our data and assess the reliability of the results

As the distance from Fratton increased, the EQS total score out of 28 generally increased. In Fratton the score was very low at -16 as it is not an area of regeneration. The total scores increased to 12 as we reached Gunwharf Quays, as it is an area of regeneration. The total scores rapidly increased as we moved from 800m to 1000m suggesting the quality of the area became much better. There are two anomalies in the data at 200m and 1600m from Fratton, as we would expect the area 200m away to have a lower EQS score and the area 1600m away to have a higher EQS score.

as a table but this does not allow us to easily identify anomalies and does not clearly show a trend within the data

0.87 meaning there is a 99% chance the hypothesis is correct as it is greater than the critical value of 0.795

We have enough data pairs to test (minimum for Spearman's Rank is 10)

It doesn't explain the cause of the relationship

We collected data at only 10 sites along the transect. This meant that we had only the minimum data required for Spearmans Rank and that our data could have been easily affected by anomalies.

We could have collected data from more sites in the area or used secondary data for some areas that may not be accessible or easy to get to in 1 day.

questionnaires filled out by a number of people in the area to gain a general idea of how the people living in the areas perceive the effects of regeneration

The regeneration of Portsmouth has had a positive impact on the locality, as suggested by our hypothesis. We can see this from our spearman's rank value which was higher than the critical value of 0.74 meaning we can be sure that our hypothesis was correct as the data had a 99% chance of being correct. We can also see from our EQS and Bipolar survey graphs as there is a very strong correlation between the distance from Fratton (an area which has not been regenerated) to Gunwharf Quays (an area of regeneration) and the environmental quality of the area. From these conclusions we can see that our hypothesis is correct as the regeneration of the area has allowed for environmental, social and economic opportunities, such as a new shopping centre which not only creates economic opportunities due to increased employment and more money being spent in the local area, but also social opportunities as the centre aslo contains cinemas and bowling alleys. The regeneration had a positive impact on the environment as the condition of the buildings was much better in Gunwharf Quays due to increased investment and there were more green spaces available to the people living in the area.