Stonehouse Visit Part 2

Now the group have visited Stonehouse, we have been able to come up with many ideas concerning the improvement of Stonehouse, Plymouth, United Kingdom. Meanwhile I have been identifying areas of Stonehouse using maps to establish contrasts between rich and poor areas (residential and council homes), identifying transportation routes and finding areas of businesses and facilities. All of these clash and combine, making Stonehouse as we see it today. I decided to draw the map of Stonehouse to easily pinpoint the exact areas the group visited and took data from. I then started to look at Google Earth and Google Maps (even a local map) to basically track where the group has been and to decide if streets had residential or council flats; or if other streets had more businesses or green spaces etc. Using a colour key was useful in helping identifying each area for others to observe.

(Postcard Logo Idea's will be uploaded in a minute!)

The First Meeting: IDAT106

Met the IDAT106 group today. Pretty good experience :).

Looks like we will be studying the area of Stonehouse in Plymouth, taking photos of different buildings and views from different perspectives to see what we want to improve about this part of the city.

We had a little brainstorming session... we came up with these ideas:

• Contrasting between rich and poor communities.



• Exploring areas within Stonehouse and compare well maintained buildings with poor redundant buildings.

Map of proposed route (Data collection area)





Here are two maps of the researching area. I have used spray painting to display the areas that the group has discovered. Each colour basically indicates the streets and their boundaries. Each area/street have different aspects. Blue = Durnford Street. Durnford Street is well looked after, there is minimal damage to the buildings, they are all renovated and maintained. Red = Cremyll Street. Cremyll Street is fairly run down, the buildings are not well looked after (in the northern areas of the street). Yellow = The coastal areas and the fortress walls are moderately looked after. There are still problems with graffiti, litter, grime and crime but it's on a lower extent compared to Cremyll Street. Black = Union Street. Union Street is indicated by the 'black cloud' this area of Stonehouse is mixed with crime, grime, unhappy, unclean streets, buildings, quality and full of council flats with different ethnic groups in complete conflict.

More plans coming up! (If any other group copies then we will KNOW)...