Changing Settlements in the UK

Changing Settlements in the UK

1. Multiple Deprivation

   • Lacking adequate food, shelter, education and health care. It is a measure which takes into account different measures of deprivation and produces an overall rating.
     • Inner city areas usually have the highest multiple deprivation rating.

2. Comparing Rural Lifestyles

   • Scottish Highlands
     • Limited Congestion
       • Pollution
     • Picturesque Landscape
     • Distance to commute
     • Weather problems
       • Snow/Extreme Weather
   • East Anglia
     • Good for commuting
     • Job Opportunities
       • Well paid
       • Stressful
     • Future Urban Sprawl
     • Traffic Congestion

3. Impacts of the Housing demand in the UK

4. Rebranding Liverpool

   • Why?
     • To re-image the local area and make it a better place to live for the local people.
     • To remove derelict buildings
     • In the 1980s Liverpool experienced economic and social deprivation along with high levels of crime.
     • After 1960’s the had been affected by industrial decline
   • Benefits
     • The removal of derelict warehousing will mean new housing will occur this will bring in new jobs and a new image for run down areas, this will allow more tourism to enter the city.
     • With the area being re-branded more companies would want to invest in the area such as: leisure and dining, cinema and café’s.
     • Night life - clubs, entertainment and comedy
     • Derelict warehousing will be replaced with new housing built upon Brownfield sites, meaning no more harm to the land.

5. Settlement Functions

   • Port - the original function of cities such as Liverpool and Southampton. Both are still ports, but this function has diminished in importance and they are now multifunctional.
   • Market town - Watford was originally a market town, and although it still holds a regular market, it is now a thriving multifunctional centre.
   • Resort - Southport was a popular Victorian seaside resort, although it now has many functions and is a commuter settlement for Liverpool.

6. the Eden Project, in stimulating growth in the rural economy and arresting outmigration.

   • Opened in 2001
     • Built in the bottom of an old clay pit, it has transformed local area and environment
     • Two 'biomes'
   • Over £150 million earned to surrounding region
   • Secured 200 local jobs

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