Cornwall's in Crisis.
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- Created on: 08-03-16 10:36
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- Cornwall's in Crisis.
- Problems faced.
- Lack of rural services
- 14% of rural parishes have access to doctors surgery, 29% of parishes have no bus routes, 39% of households live over 2 km from a cash point.
- Lack of employment opportunities.
- A cycle of deprivation as under 18's expect to move away from the area as there are low jobs and low wages, creating a brain drain.
- Low wages.
- £329.30 in 2005 this is 25% below the national average.
- Decline in the rural economy.
- Primary sector employment in the 1970's in quarrying and mining but with the post production countryside it is suffering from a lack of opportunities
- Decline in the tourist industry.
- tourism employs 25% of people in some areas.
- Jobs are mainly seasonal and poorly paid.
- 33% of the profits stay within the local economy and the rest is economic leakage.
- Lack of infrastructure.
- No motorways to the area, only one rail connection.
- Core and periphery theory.
- Cornwall is disconnected from the core.
- 5 hours driving distance from London for heavy good vehicles.
- The core produces 75%of the UK's good and services.
- Gentrification.
- Increase in numbers of second homes.
- Increase in the amount of economic leakage
- Increase in numbers of second homes.
- Lack of rural services
- Negative multiplier effect.
- Income.
- Employment.
- Deprived.
- Employment.
- Health + disability
- Education
- Very good
- Education
- Housing
- Services.
- Not stated.
- Services.
- Income.
- Problems faced.
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