1. Services Starter – in pairs discuss the following: What services do you regularly use? How do they affect your quality of life? Daily Services – shops, school, sporting or recreational opportunity Occasional Services – doctors, hospitals, solicitors

2. Learning Objectives To appreciate that there is a pattern to how services are distributed. To see how these services have changed over time

3. Give examples of each of the following services: Leisure and sport – Cultural venues – Health services – Educational services – Religious services – Specialist shops – Public transport services – Other public services -

4. Shopping Services – the CBD The CBD has changed over the years. In the 1980’s it looked like this ( only older). There were no indoor shopping areas or out of town shopping centre, e.g. Teesside Park

5. In the 2000s Times have changed and new shopping centres that have multiple shops under one roof are the norm now. We have out of town shopping centres on the edge of our cities. For many companies this has been disastrous, they have lost business and had to close down.

6. Page 166 of Key Geog. Read how the CBD has changed over 20 years. Answer the questions at the bottom of page 167 In full sentences.

7. Why have Out of Town shopping centres developed? List as many reasons as possible in 3 minutes as to why you think the ‘Out of Town’ shopping centre has become so popular.

8. Free parking for 10,000 cars · New bus and rail stations · 300 shops · 40 eating places · Air conditioning · Ten screen cinema · 150 room luxury hotel Marshland so cheap to buy · room to expand · Adjacent to the western bypass – easy access · 1.3 million people live within a 30 minutes’ drive · has its own railway station More congestion on outskirts of towns · Popularity of nearby CBD declines resulting in job losses and closure of businesses · Farmland be taken in order to construct the centre · More pollution (e.g. air and noise) · Nearby village shops may lose customers

9. Factors that influence access to services agefitness Access to car

10. Review the Learning Objectives On a post-it notes identify the pattern to services Outline one way these services have changed over time

11. Homework: Services in rural areas Living in a small village can reduce the number of services that can be accessed. 1.Name the services available to people living in a village. 2.Explain how technology is increasing their access to more services, e.g. the role of the internet.