Changing Settlements In The UK

Question 1

What is RURAL URBAN CONTINIUM?

Answer 1

Moving away from towns and cities into nature settlements

Question 2

What are tourist villages?

Answer 2

• villages become a focus because of the national park
• villages provide facilities eg shops, accommodation
• over £16 million spent on total UK tourism and 16.9% is spent on the countryside

Question 3

What are retirement villages?

Answer 3

• facilities include restaurants, gyms
• usually 100+ houses and flats
• around 80 retirement villages in the UK

Question 4

What are remote rural settlements?

Answer 4

• about 200,000 live in sparse, remotes, upland areas
• isolated farms or hamlets are the most common settlement type in upland areas
• Difficult for hill farmers to make any profits but without their sheep the entire landscape would be altered and overgrown

Question 5

What is multiple deprivation?

Answer 5

Many different types of deprivation and people can be multiply deprived

Question 6

What is the Eden project?

Answer 6

Consists of two biomes which house collections of plants around the world

Question 7

What do the Eden project do?

Answer 7

Helped the economy as local businesses are supplying it
Provides jobs
Earning money for b economy

Question 8

Why is tackling rural decline so challenging?

Answer 8

Lack of job opportunities
Lack of infrastructure
Some investors may be put off by taking care of the environment

Question 9

What do the CUC do?

Answer 9

Better education
Helps local shops
Transforming the local economy into a knowledge economy

Question 10

Advantages of the Eden project

Answer 10

13 million people have ever visiting EP
People who visit stay in Cornwall
Visitors spend money locally on a range of things
Since opened in 2001, 3000 jobs have been issued

Question 11

Disadvantages of the Eden project

Answer 11

Some local firms are complaining that the popularity of the EP means tourists aren’t visiting them
Harder to find good employees

Question 12

What is the CUC (combined universities in Cornwall)?

Answer 12

Partnership of 6 universities and colleges working together to give students a chance to study higher education

Question 13

Advantages of CUC

Answer 13

Locals in the area get money
Transform local economy into a knowledge economy
People get more jobs - over 3 years 500 jobs have been created

Question 14

Disadvantages to CUC

Answer 14

Some graduates stay in Cornwall, many of them can’t afford to settle down there and buy houses
Prices are high due to tourism and the demand for rented accommodation from students
Young educated people continue to leave Cornwall

Question 15

What are green belts?

Answer 15

Ringed fenced areas of of the countryside

Question 16

What are the 3 functions of green belts?

Answer 16

Stop the sprawl of cities
Protect the surrounding countryside from further development
Prevent neighbouring cities from merging into another one

Question 17

What are the threats of green belts?

Answer 17

• nearly 50,000 houses have been built on green belts

- cause leap frogging - where towns like Chelmsford in Essex grow outside the green belt

Question 18

What are national parks?

Answer 18

Areas of protected landscape

Question 19

What the aims of the national park?

Answer 19

• to conserve and enhance the natural beauty, wildlife and cultural heritage of each park
• to promote opportunities for the understand and enjoyment by the public of the special qualities of each park