Nottingham Urban Area

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Greater Nottingham is a conurbation based around the city of Nottingham in Nottinghamshire, England. Unlike Greater Manchester and Greater London, which are respectively a metropolitan county and a region, Greater Nottingham has no formal definition as an administrative area. However, the Office for National Statistics does define a Nottingham Urban Area with a population of 666,358 at the time of the 2001 census^[1].

As defined by the Office of National Statistics, the Nottingham Urban Area comprises Nottingham itself and the surrounding towns and villages of Arnold, Beeston, Breaston, Carlton, Clifton, Eastwood, Heanor, Hucknall, Ilkeston, Kimberley, Long Eaton, Ripley, Ruddington, Stapleford, and West Bridgford. This Nottingham Urban Area is separated from the Derby Urban Area only by a narrow gap between Breaston and Borrowash. Similar narrow gaps exist between the Nottingham urban area and the Mansfield Urban Area and Alfreton Urban Area. In the 1991 census, Ilkeston was considered outside of the Nottingham Urban Area^[2].

These towns are mainly in the three surrounding districts of Rushcliffe, Broxtowe and Gedling, though the area spills also into the Nottinghamshire district of Ashfield, and also the Amber Valley and Erewash districts of Derbyshire. The urban area is by the ONS figures the 7th largest in England, between the Liverpool Urban Area and the Sheffield Urban Area.

The local authorities collaborate in some ways. The Greater Nottingham Partnership considers the region to consist of the City of Nottingham plus the entirety of the Rushcliffe, Broxtowe and Gedling boroughs, along with Hucknall from Ashfield, but not the Derbyshire councils.[1].

[edit] External links

• Greater Nottingham partnership (GNP)
• Office for National Statistics: Census 2001, Key Statistics for urban areas
• map depicting ONS definition

[edit] References

1. ^ Office for National Statistics: Census 2001, Key Statistics for urban areas
2. ^ Statistics.gov.uk