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Social impacts and Landscape Change in Yorkshire
Philip Lowe
Director
Rural Economy and Land Use Programme
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State of the C’side 2020; C’side Agency
Fragmentation
Cohesion
Environmentallyunsustainable
Environmentallysustainable
The Countryside Means Business
Go for Green
The Triple WhammyAll on Board
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Henley Centre for MAFF/Defra
Countryside as place ofproduction
Countryside forenvironmental consumption
Publicfunding
Crossroads From Brussels with Love
The Good Life Last of the
Summer Wine
Marketled
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Common themes in axes
• Economic liberalism v protectionism
• Social cohesion v individualisation
• Concern for environment
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Drivers specific to rural issues
• agriculture
• the regionalisation of rural economies
• social values
• countryside recreation and leisure
• counterurbanisation and demographic change
• the differentiated countryside
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Rural Typology for local authorities in England and Wales – Central Scenario 2024
Rural Typology
UrbanPeripheral amenityDeep RuralRetirement retreatsTransient RuralDynamic commuterDynamic ruralSettled commuter
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Rural Yorkshire
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Table 2 – Rural Area Types Generated by Cluster Analysis
Type Description Examples of Rural Districts
‘Dynamic rural’ areas Rural areas with high density of professional and knowledge workers
Market Harborough, East Cambridgeshire
‘Settled commuter’ areas Commuter hinterlands of regional hubs
Stratford-upon-Avon, Castle Morpeth, Harrogate
‘Dynamic commuter’ areas Affluent South East commuter belt
Mid-Sussex, South Oxfordshire
‘Deep rural’ areas Sparsely populated farming communities
Mid-Devon, Alnwick, Ryedale
‘Retirement retreat’ areas High settlement of retirees Lancaster, East Devon
‘Peripheral amenity’ areas Marginal, tourism-dependent areas
North Somerset, Scarborough
‘Transient rural’ areas Declining market towns, former mining areas etc.
North Lincolnshire, Mendip, East Riding of Yorkshire
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Dynamic Rural
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Consumption Countryside
• rural lifestyle for affluent commuters
• the end of rural ‘separateness’
• a sharp decline in deep rural
• a focus on regional governance
• stronger security focus, ‘gated psychology’, stressed ‘country living’
• dynamic and vibrant with entrepreneurship growing
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21st Century Good Life
• tighter land use policy
• ‘tailing off’ of ‘counterurbanisation’
• farmers seen more as environmental / land managers, maintaining the countryside
• dependence on city wealth
• anglo-saxon, no ethnic diversity
• low probability
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Rise of the Rurbs
• rural strategy is to promote economic growth
• high investment in transport infrastructure
• technology is key driver in the knowledge economy ‘creative class’
• teleworking and long-distance commute
• moderately affluent, mobile, multicultural commuter belt
• regional hubs attracting major enterprise
• plausible