The maps below show an industrial area in the town of Norbiton, and planned future development of the site. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The above maps detail Norbiton in the present day and plans for future development. Looking from an

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perspective, it is readily apparent that the municipality will become less industrial and more residential with the construction of facilities for housing, education, shopping, and medical care.

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development will occur primarily to the west and north with only a small patch of farmland remaining undisturbed. In the current township, there is a central roundabout surrounded by factories and a road running from west to east out of Norbiton. In the future, the roundabout will remain but the factories around it will become shops, new housing will line a northwestern road, and there will be a new hospital built to the southeast. The original road going to the east will

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now have housing on either side

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a large playground to the north and a school at the easternmost border of the town. Outside the centre of the town, there are

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plans for a smaller roundabout in the south which will bisect an existing street. In the north, there will be a bridge over the river and the farmland to the north will be partly replaced with housing, though not to the east where no alterations will be made.