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The South West Hampshire & South East Dorset Green Belt is a green belt environmental and planning policy that regulates the rural space in the South West region of England.It is mainly within the county of Dorset, extending cross border into Hampshire.
The centre and south-west of the county are rural. For local government purposes Hampshire comprises a non-metropolitan county, with eleven districts, and two unitary authority areas: Portsmouth and Southampton. The county historically contained the towns of Bournemouth and Christchurch, which are now part of Dorset, and the Isle of Wight.
Regional profile of the South West in 2011 Population pyramid of the South West in 2020 At the 2021 census , the population of the South West region was 5,701,186 [ 121 ] It has long been one of the fastest-growing regions in England and its 2021 population had increased by 7.8% since 2011 (when it was 5,288,935), and by 15.7% over the 2001 ...
Hampshire (/ ˈ h æ m p ʃ ər /, /-ʃ ɪər / ⓘ; abbreviated to Hants.) is a ceremonial county in South East England.It is bordered by Berkshire to the north, Surrey and West Sussex to the east, the Isle of Wight across the Solent to the south, Dorset to the west, and Wiltshire to the north-west.
South Hampshire is a term used mainly to refer to the conurbation formed by the city of Portsmouth, city of Southampton and the non-metropolitan boroughs of Gosport, Fareham, Havant and Eastleigh in southern Hampshire, South East England.
See 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for further details.. For the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which redrew the constituency map ahead of the 2024 United Kingdom general election, the Boundary Commission for England opted to combine Hampshire with Berkshire and Surrey as a sub-region of the South East Region.
Of all regions, the South-East has the greatest percentage that attend a grammar school: 12%; the next highest is the South-West with 6%. [35] The most-educated people ( NQF level 4 or above) in the region live in Elmbridge (51%), then Waverley, and Epsom and Ewell; 33% of people are at this level for the South-East, only second to London at 40%.
This is a list of settlements in the county of Hampshire, England.Places highlighted in bold type are towns or cities.. The Isle of Wight was in Hampshire until 1890. [a] Bournemouth and adjacent parishes in the far west [b] were transferred to the ceremonial and administrative county of Dorset in 1974.