UK

• Summary 


  The UK’s economy has rapidly changed since the industrial revolution. Before this we worked mainly in the primary sector in agriculture. There was a large scale move to manufacturing (secondary) into the 80s but in recent time we have move to the majority working in the tertiary sector.
• Changing economy 


  Pre-Industrial – Most people work in mining and agriculture (1800 75% work in primary sector)

  Industrial – Industrial Revolution (1900 55% work in secondary sector) mainly in manufacturing. Mechanisation and production abroad slows this pattern

  Changing Economy

  Post-Industrial – by 2006 74% of those in the UK work in the tertiary sector. The development of services, finance, research and development create this change
• general 


  Rural Landscape (South Cambridgeshire) impacts of economic change reduction in agriculture, more building on green space, greater level of commuting adds to congestion, lack of affordable housing
• Transport


  road improvements - south west super highway and smart motorways

  Port developments - Liverpool
• North/South divide


  North/South Dived – socio-economic difference between the regions

  Transport schemes designed to connect north to south more easily