Counter urbanisation: St Ives
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- Created on: 03-10-16 17:31
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- Counter urbanisation: St Ives
- Location
- Cambridgeshire -> grown d.t CU
- 7 miles north of London
- Pop: 1961-3800ppl 2010- 16400ppl
- Good road access & rail links to CAMBRIDGE & LONDON.
- + commute to C & ar. 1/4 of wp commute to L/day
- Cambridgeshire -> grown d.t CU
- Impacts
- NEGATIVE: 2) Traffic congestion
- esp during rush hr on A14 ( main commuter route from St Ives to Cambridge
- NEGATIVE: 1) incr. in £ of detached houses
- From £130k to £291k between 2000-2010
- Commuters often earn higher wages than locals -> able to afford higher prices
- From £130k to £291k between 2000-2010
- NEGATIVE: 3) Demand for houses = risk of floods
- St Ives - on River Great Ouse ( history of flooding)
- houses built on south river bank in centre of town & on floodplain
- + risk of floods (1k properties at risk from a 1 in 100 yr event)
- POSITIVE: 4) + Shops & services
- E.g clothes, antiques, cafes, restaurants
- NEGATIVE: 5) Movement of families = change in pop structure
- Previously ageing but now + under 16 than over 65 = pressure on schools& more primary/pre-schools needed
- NEGATIVE: 2) Traffic congestion
- Management
- 1.New homes & affordable homes
- 2010- plans set to build 200 new homes. 75 of them affordable -> ppl on low income
- e.g social rents & low cost ownership
- 2010- plans set to build 200 new homes. 75 of them affordable -> ppl on low income
- 2.Expand primary schools
- 240 more places
- 4.£116mill guides busway built
- Links St Ives to Huntingdon & Cambridge.
- To reduce congestion- commuters no longer need to travel on A14
- Also plans to to extend busway to Cambridge -> journey time to L quicker than from Huntingdon
- Reduces no. of L commuters using Huntingdon station
- 3.Flood protection works- River Great Ouse (£8.8mill, complete 2007). New Embankments & flood walls- St Ives
- After flooding in 1998 &2003
- 1.New homes & affordable homes
- Location
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