St Ives

Question 1

Location

Answer 1

Cambridgeshire in east England

Question 2

What process has lead to change in st Ives

Answer 2

Counter urbanisation

Question 3

What are the push factors to counter urbanise

Answer 3

• poor housing
• pollution
• lack of open space
• social problems

Question 4

What are the pull factors to counter urbanise

Answer 4

• better housing
• safer environment
• more green space
• perception of better schools

Question 5

What has facilitated counter urbanisation

Answer 5

• improved transport links
• technological change (internet, remote working)

Question 6

Impacts in St Ives

Answer 6

• 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

Question 7

Management in St Ives

Answer 7

• 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

Question 8

Change from original village to suburban village can be measured:

Answer 8

• housing
• inhabitants
• transport
• services
• social
• environment

Question 9

How housing has changed

Answer 9

• 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

Question 10

Inhabitants

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Transport

Answer 11

• 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

Question 12

services

Answer 12

• 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

Question 13

Social

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Environment

Answer 14

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