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The government introduced the concept of a primary urban area as a defining characteristic for substantial settlements, using the shorthand term 'city' for them, whether or not they had formal city status. In reality, a PUA may contain multiple settlements, even multiple cities.
Some of these are out-of-town centres, while others are part of a city or town centre shopping district, which in almost all cases also includes many stores not part of the shopping centre. Many city and town centre shopping districts not represented in this list are larger than some of the centres listed. Westfield London is the largest ...
The Sheffield Urban Area is a conurbation in the north of England with a population of 685,368 according to the 2011 census. [1] This was a 7% increase on the 2001 population of 640,720 [ 2 ] making it the 8th largest conurbation in the United Kingdom and England 's 6th largest.
Description: Sheffield outline, showing motorways and urban areas. Date: April 2007: Source: Mapping is derived from Open Street Map data, which is licensed under a creative commons attribution sharealike licence.
This would keep the current boundary between the city and the county in place, but would do away with the two-tiered system in the latter, turning Nottinghamshire into a unitary authority.
Norwich. The ONS has classified all built-up areas with a population of at least 200,000 as "major". Most are cities, with three large towns (Luton, Northampton and Reading) included. [1]
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 ...
The City of Sheffield is a metropolitan borough with city status in South Yorkshire, England. The metropolitan borough includes the administrative centre of Sheffield , the town of Stocksbridge and the larger village of Chapeltown and part of the Peak District . [ 7 ]