booklet 3

• What is counter urbanisation


  The movement of people away from large urban areas to smaller settlements and rural areas.
• Suburbanised village


  A small settlement in which most of the workers commute to work, and are said to have 'urban values' and so they are not primarily interested in the rural economy.
• Causes of counter urbanisation

  - retirement

  - perceived better quality of life

  - safer

  - less polluted

  - improvement in tech and infrastructure
• Socio-economic groups


  - retired and elderly

  - families and young children

  - middle class and more wealthy professionals
• Ideal rural settlement


  - 30 mins from town

  - needs to connected by fast roads
• Hudson's model of a suburbanised village

  It is an original village core

  Infilling of houses between old houses

  Houses built along roads leading out of village in ribbon developments and larger planned estates located outside the village core
• Characteristics of suburbanised village

  - New housing, renovated barns or cottages, expensive

  - Professional commuters with wealthy family's

  - Decline of services as most families have cars

  - More shops and enlarged schools, modern restaurants and amenities

  - Local community swamped and village deserted in day

  - More noise and pollution
• Characteristics of original village

  - small close knit community

  - detached stone built houses, over 100 years old

  - farming and other primary jobs

  - bus service, some cars and narrow roads

  - village shops, small schools

  - quiet and pollution free
• Consequences of counter urbanisation

  - Rise in house price - Negative/Eco

  - Increase flood potential - Negative/Env

  - increase traffic - Negative/Env

  - environmental pollution - Negative/Env

  - wider economic base creating employment opportunities - Positive/Eco/Soc

  - social conflict - Negative/Soc

  - changes in bus services - Positive/Soc/Eco

  - loss of green space - Negative/Soc
• How does counter urbanisation affect sense of place

  Places identity can become altered and can lose some of its original community feel and sense of place can be changed and lost. Area can become placelessness
• Case study cranleigh - suburbanised village

  Cranleigh has good transport links - A281 connects it to guildford/ bus service

  There are plans to build 425 new homes to cope with rising population

  Lots of social things to do - restaurants, parks, lessuire centre
• Cranleigh case study - evidence for counter urbanisation

  Population - 12700

  38.7% have a car or van

  45% drive a car to work

  39% work at home

  53.5% economically active

  44.7% economically inactive

  22% professional occupations