Band 6+: The maps show the outskirts of the town of Fosbury in 1980 and 2015. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words.

The two maps illustrate how the fringes of a town, whose name is Fosbury, changes over a thirty-five-year period from 1980 to 2015.

Overall, the Fosbury’s suburbs, which was a residential and commercial area in 1980, experienced a considerable alteration, and modernized in the next thirty-five years.

The most notable improvement was the erection of a rotary in 2015 on the area that was allocated to a block of flats and grocery shop in 1980. While detached dwellings and the apartment hotel remained in the same location over this period, the row houses were enlarged and relocated to the left of the town’s peripheries in 2015, where the public park was situated in 1980. Car park

On the commercial side, two parking lot has been constructed near the popular high-demand facilities. Due to the significant population growth, the old tennis courts and grocery shops respectively converted to a sports center and a hypermarket in the early 2000s. Furthermore, although no storage building was established in 1980, many warehouses were built instead of fields in 2015.