... have had very little time to deteriorate, less congestion and vandalism would be found in these districts and the houses in these areas will be better laid out. * That the environmental data score for enumeration districts will generally be lower (indicating a high standard of living and high environmental quality) for areas with higher percentages of detached houses. I think this hypothesis will be true, as houses in the centre of town are mostly old terraced houses whilst more modern (post Victorian) detached houses and semi-detached/terraced houses with land can be found mostly on the outskirts of town. This is because cheap to build, compact, terraced housing was built for labourers by factory owners, because of a lack of transport, at the turn of the 20th century and they are now near the congested, noisy, polluted town centre. Because of a lack of space in the centre of Spalding, the ...

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