The map below is of the town of Garlsdon, a new supermarket is planned for the town.

The map shows the layout of a town called Garisdon populated by 65,000 citizens, where there is a new supermarket to be built, providing two possible locations.
Overall
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it is clear that
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S2 is in the heart of the downtown,
whereas
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S1 locates in the countryside,
however
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, both of those are not far away from the residential area. Looking at the S1 site
firstly
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, it sits in the northeast, bordering the housing area to the east.
Although
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the location is far away from industrial estates and near to Hindon with a 10,000 population, it is isolated from the downtown and the other two towns named Branson and Cransdon with 44,000 people combined. Turning to the S2 site
then
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, it is surrounded by residences and the town centre which is 10 km, 16 km and 25 km away from Hindon, Bransdon and Cransdon respectively.
On the other hand
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, S2 is not far from the industrial estate in the south.

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