St Ives Flashcards

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Location

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Cambridgeshire in east England

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What process has lead to change in st Ives

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Counter urbanisation

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What are the push factors to counter urbanise

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  • poor housing
  • pollution
  • lack of open space
  • social problems
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What are the pull factors to counter urbanise

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  • better housing
  • safer environment
  • more green space
  • perception of better schools
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What has facilitated counter urbanisation

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  • improved transport links
  • technological change (internet, remote working)
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Impacts in St Ives

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  • A14 traffic congestion
  • average hours price rose from $130,000 to $291,000 from 2000 to 2010 -> commuters can afford these prices whereas locals can’t (priced out)
  • to cope with demand of housing, new developments are being built on the flood plain. This floodplain is on the south of the great river Ouse
  • demographic changes : was ageing now younger people and families -> putting strain on schools
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Management in St Ives

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  • future developments are going to be controlled so that they fit into the area
  • plans to expand primary schools which will give 240 more spaces
  • along the river they are building floor protection hat will cost $8.8m (includes new embankments and flood walls)
  • a $116 busway has been built that links st Ives to Huntingdon and Cambridge hopefully reducing congestion on A14
  • in 2010 plans were approved to build 200 new homes. 75 of those houses are going to be affordable housing: (1) social rent: houses that are rented out by the council at low rates. (2) low cost ownership: either buying a house at a discount, or buying a share of te house and rent the rest
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Change from original village to suburban village can be measured:

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  • housing
  • inhabitants
  • transport
  • services
  • social
  • environment
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How housing has changed

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  • THEN: stone-built housing with slate or thatch roof, some farms, barns, most architecture over 100 years old, distinctive architecture
  • NOW: new, mainly detached houses on small estates, renovated gentrified cottages, barn conversions, double garages
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Inhabitants

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  • THEN: small close-knit community
  • NOW: local community may be swamped, village deserted by day - ‘ghost’ or ‘dormatory’ villages. Resentment of new arrivals
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Transport

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  • THEN: rural bus service, narrow winding road network, limited cars
  • NOW: declining bus service as most new families have 2 cars, improved road, but some congestion
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services

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  • THEN: village shop, small junior school, pub, village hall, blacksmith, butcher, baker
  • NOW: closure of basic shops as people have cars and travel to major supermarkets, some new specialised shops, gastro pubs. School may close down/enlarge
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Social

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  • THEN: primary jobs, work locally
  • NOW: professionals, executives, commuters, often wealthy middle class families or retired; some new rural businesses
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Environment

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  • THEN: quiet, relatively pollution free, village green, open spaces
    -NOW: more noise and pollution, loss of open space/farmland
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