Nottingham Urban Area

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Nottingham built-up area subdivisions, 2011 Template:Legend Template:Legend Template:Legend Template:Legend

The Nottingham Built-up Area (BUA), Nottingham Urban Area, or Greater Nottingham is an area of land defined by the Office for National Statistics as built-up land with a minimum area of 20 hectares (200,000 m²), while settlements within 200 metres of each other are linked.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It consists of the city of Nottingham and the adjoining urban areas of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, in the East Midlands of England. It had a total population of 729,977 at the time of the 2011 census.<ref name="BUA">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> This was an increase of almost 10% since the 2001 census recorded population of 666,358,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> due to population increases, reductions and several new sub-divisions.

GeographyEdit

Template:Multiple images Greater Nottingham is largely within the three districts of Rushcliffe, Broxtowe and Gedling surrounding the city, though the area spills into the Nottinghamshire district of Ashfield, and also to the Amber Valley and Erewash districts of Derbyshire. The Nottingham Urban Area is, by the ONS' figures, the 8th largest in England (9th in the UK), with a population size between that of the Tyneside and Sheffield built-up areas, and a total area of Template:Convert.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The Nottingham Urban Area is bounded to the west by a narrow gap between Draycott (to the west of the Breaston urban area sub-division) and Borrowash (to the east of the Derby Urban Area). The Heanor/Ripley and West Hallam north-western extensions have a somewhat tenuous linkage through to the core of Nottingham City largely due to ribbon development, and are in close proximity to other nearby urban areas which together, almost link to Derby from the north.<ref name=":0" />

Sub-divisions do not always match administrative geographic boundaries; the subdivision of Clifton for example is within the Nottingham Unitary Authority city area but is subdivided by the River Trent. The Nottingham subdivision oversteps the city's borders at several locations. Together, these two subdivisions exceed the official city population (305,680 in 2011<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>) as a result, even though West Bridgford includes the counts of city suburbs Silverdale and Wilford.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In the 1991 census,<ref name=1991census>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Ilkeston was considered outside of the Nottingham Urban Area,<ref name="ons">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and its addition gave the BUA an 8% increase in 2001. This was due to improvements in mapping methodology by the ONS, and is chiefly responsible for the increase in sub-divisions over censuses rather than any large scale 'bricks and mortar' building,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> as much of the area between the cities is protected green belt and wedges, restricting actual development.<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Urban subdivision	Population				District	County
Urban subdivision	1981 census	1991 census	2001 census	2011 census	District	County
Nottingham	273,300	270,222	249,584	289,301	City of Nottingham	Nottinghamshire
Beeston	64,785	66,626	66,683	51,479	Broxtowe	Nottinghamshire
Carlton	46,053	47,302	48,493	49,235	Gedling	Nottinghamshire
West Bridgford	27,463	33,843	43,395	45,509	Rushcliffe	Nottinghamshire
Ilkeston	—	—	37,270	38,640	Erewash	Derbyshire
Arnold	37,721	37,646	37,402	37,768	Gedling	Nottinghamshire
Long Eaton	42,285	44,826	46,490	37,760	Erewash	Derbyshire
Hucknall	27,463	29,160	29,188	32,107	Ashfield	Nottinghamshire
Heanor	21,863	22,180	22,620	25,644	Amber Valley	Derbyshire
Clifton	—	—	22,312	22,407	City of Nottingham	Nottinghamshire
Ripley	17,548	18,310	18,523	19,315	Amber Valley	Derbyshire
Eastwood	18,085	19,363	18,612	18,422	Broxtowe	Nottinghamshire
Stapleford	—	—	—	16,190	Broxtowe	Nottinghamshire
Kimberley	9,818	10,488	11,027	11,353	Broxtowe	Nottinghamshire
Sandiacre	—	—	—	9,600	Erewash	Derbyshire
Breaston	—	7,284	7,305	7,545	Erewash	Derbyshire
Ruddington	6,504	6,476	6,264	7,020	Rushcliffe	Nottinghamshire
West Hallam	—	—	—	6,016	Erewash	Derbyshire
Awsworth	—	—	—	2,517	Broxtowe	Nottinghamshire
Trowell	—	—	1,013	953	Broxtowe	Nottinghamshire
Stanton-By-Dale	—	—	—	505	Erewash	Derbyshire
Denby Common	—	—	—	495	Amber Valley	Derbyshire
Ruddington Grange	—	—	177	196	Rushcliffe	Nottinghamshire
Total	593,768	613,726	666,358	729,977
Change	-	+3.36%	+8.58%	+9.55%

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Greater Nottingham Partnership/D2N2Edit

The local authorities collaborate in some ways. The Greater Nottingham Partnership considered Greater Nottingham to consist of the City of Nottingham plus the entirety of the Rushcliffe, Broxtowe and Gedling boroughs, along with Hucknall from Ashfield, but no part of Derbyshire, as no Derbyshire council was a member of the Partnership. They together worked as an advisory and lobbying body for projects and decisions involving the region. However it was axed due to funding in 2011 and the D2N2 Local Enterprise Partnership is instead assuming those functions with cross-county political and local business support.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Nottingham-Derby metropolitan areaEdit

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Built-up area boundaries in 2011 showing Nottingham and Derby, with near convergence of surrounding major BUAs: Template:Legend Template:Legend Template:Legend Template:Legend Template:Legend Template:Legend Template:Legend Template:Legend

The conurbation forms a large part of the Nottingham-Derby metropolitan area, which has an estimated population of 1.5 million.<ref name=j>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The urban areas of both Derby and Nottingham are almost continuous with Draycott (part of the Breaston Urban sub-division) being almost continuous with the Borrowash part of the Derby Urban Area.<ref name = bob>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The Mansfield Urban Area also forms part of this metropolitan area, although it is not continuous with the Nottingham Urban Area. However, it is almost continuous with the Alfreton/South Normanton Built-up area, which had a population of 41,289 according to the last census,<ref name=bob/> with the South Normanton/Pinxton Urban sub-division of the Alfreton Urban Area being almost continuous with the Sutton-in-Ashfield Urban sub-division of the Mansfield Urban Area. The Alfreton Urban Area is also nearly continuous with Ripley part of the Nottingham Urban Area. Other minor urban areas to the west of the Ripley, Heanor and West Hallam sub divisions daisy-chain towards Derby from the north, notably Belper, Kilburn and Crich/Heage. See the maps above for a demonstration of these BUAs in close proximity.

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