Survey of Chanterlands Avenue
Some Year 5 children recently undertook a survey of nearby Chanterlands Avenue. Here are the conclusions of Charlotte Wheatley and Megan Woodcock, as an open letter to the city councillors.
Dear City Councillors,
We are pupils at Bricknell Primary School and as part of our Geography work we have been looking at how Chanterlands Avenue could be improved.
Room for improvement
We think it could be made better for residents, shoppers and people who work there. We have carried out an investigation to find out what people want. We all did a traffic survey and found out that around 75% of the traffic were cars.
| Cars | 123 |
| Vans | 39 |
| Lorries | 3 |
| Bikes | 9 |
| Buses | 2 |
| Motor bikes | 4 |
| Other | 7 |
Then after the 20 minute traffic survey we questioned people about how they would like to improve Chanterlands avenue.
People said all different things but when we added them all up together and we made a graph that is shown beneath.
| More parking | 42 |
| More litter bins | 42 |
| public toilets | 32 |
| Wider pavements | 19 |
| More pedestrian crossings | 29 |
| speed bumps | 18 |
| speed cameras | 23 |
Happy customers
As you can see most people wanted more parking, though it was more popular with some of the shopkeepers we questioned.
Here’s a quote from one of them: I would like some more parking because it would hopefully bring more happy customers’.
Boarded-up shops
Along the way we saw 2 boarded up shops, we were thinking maybe we could maybe we could make them into proper shops!
The bits we have underlined in black are what we think we need improving to this shop and our reasons why are:
- Because it is closed down
- Because it is not very appealing
- Because it needs doing up and needs new windows.
- It needs refurbishing
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