obesity – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Wed, 29 Nov 2017 15:23:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg obesity – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 Fast Food vs. Schools in London https://www.maproomblog.com/2017/11/fast-food-vs-schools-in-london/ Wed, 29 Nov 2017 15:23:01 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=6190 More]]>

One of the proposals in the new draft London Plan is to prohibit new fast food establishments within 400 metres of an existing school as a means of combatting childhood obesity.1 This is going over about as well as you’d think. Dan Cookson has mapped the locations of London’s fast food establishments and the 400-metre exclusion zones around each school; his map suggests a problem: there would be few places in the city able to host a new fast food joint.

Related, via Maps Mania: the Guardian’s interactive map of fast food shops in England.

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