UK Industrialisation

• Counter-Urbanisation - increase in the proportion of people living in countryside compared to cities
• Counter-urbanisation is due to:

  • Technological advancements
  • Ageing population
• 19% of UK population love in rural areas
• Greenbelt - green spaces around cities with stronger build regulations to prevent urban sprawl and merging
• Greenbelt:

  :) Preserving green land

  :( UK needs more housing
• South Cambridgeshire:

  • Population increase
  • Inward migration due to proximity to London/Cambridge
  • 30% will be retirement age by 2031
  • Young people pushed away by high prices
  • More drivers means more congestion
• Outer Hebrides:

  • Population decline
  • Outward migration
  • Young people moving away
  • School closures due to lack of pupils
  • Foreign big boats take over fishing