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﻿Hi, I'm Miss Goacher and welcome to today's lesson. Our focus for today is to look at the UK changing landscape based on the economic growth within the country. We're going to focus on a particular area of the UK called North Somerset. And look at how economic change has led to rural growth in that particular area. You're going to need a pen and some paper today. So if you need to go and get those, please feel free to pause the video at this point, go and get them, and then we'll resume the lesson together. But before we do anything today, we have to make sure that we know exactly what an urban and a rural area is. You can see that we've got two definitions on the screen. A rural area, is an area defined as somewhere outside of an urban area that typically a village or a hamlet, and they're situated in the countryside. Whereas urban areas are those defined as a human settlement with a high population density, typically a town or a city. In the UK an urban area can be defined by either its population size or the population density. Typically speaking, a population of over 10,000 people is seen as an urban area. And 81.5% of the UK's population lives in urban areas. Even though only 6.8% of the UK is urban. So most of the UK is rural, but most people live in urban areas. So our job today is to work out how those rural areas are changing, as people start to move into rural areas instead of living in urban areas. Before we do anything today, I want us to look at a skills task. You've got a map of population density in the UK, and you can see very clearly here that we've got a key that tells us what the colours on our choropleth map shows. Our job is to describe the population distribution of the UK for four marks. The success criteria for this question would be to do the following four things. To identify an area with high population density, to identify an area with low population density, to use some compass directions when we're picking out those areas and to use the key so that we're using data in our answer. There are four marks available here. So I would really closely follow that success criteria to make sure I've picked an area of high population density and use some data. And I've picked an area of low population density and used it with that as well. At this point, I want you to pause the video so that you can look at that map very carefully and you can pop some down for where you feel those four marks will come from. So did you get any of these ideas? We're going to start first of all, with a high population density. So your marks could have come from any of these points here. You can see very clearly that I've circled those areas of high population density. And we can see that if we pick some of those out, that we've got a high population density in the Southeast of the UK, with up to 1001 plus people per kilometre square, there would be our two marks for that. You could have picked out the high population density in the Northwest of the UK, near to Liverpool between 251 to 1000 people per kilometre. You could also have identified areas such as Bristol and South Wales down here, the North East of England, for example, Newcastle up here and areas such as Birmingham here. Double check that you've got some ideas related to that high population density. For low population density, we could have picked out areas in the North of the UK or in the North of Scotland with between one to five people per kilometre square. We could've identified the centre of Whales and identified six to 25 people per kilometre square. And you might have also identified areas in Northern England that you can see have got lower population density as well. So at this point, you may want to pause the video and double check that you've got some ideas written down here. It's important for us to know about this population density and that distribution of population across the UK. So we can start to understand why particular areas of the UK and settlements may change in their population size and their character. So the first question I want us to think about today is why are rural area growing? There are two big reasons for this. Counter-urbanization and commuter settlements. Counter-urbanization is the movement of people and services out of urban areas or cities back into the countryside. Commuters settlements are those towns and villages whose function is to be a residential area for people who travel away for work each day. And a commuter is someone that travels to work each day. So two of the big reasons that our rural areas in the UK are growing is based around these two processes. That movement of people out of cities, back into those rural areas and the growth of commuter settlements as people move out of cities to live in rural areas and travel to work each day. I would make sure that you knew exactly what these two key processes mean and that you've got some ideas written down so that you've got context for the rest of the lesson. Pause the video at this point, if you want to write down some of those ideas. So before we do anything, let's double check that you've written down those definitions correctly and that you know which ones are correct. Full counter urbanisation, you've got two choices, 1a, or 1b. And for commuter settlements you've got 2a or 2b. Read through those definitions really quickly. Maybe hide your notes that you've just made so you can't sneakily have a look and see whether you can very clearly pick out the correct definition. Pause the video at this point to complete this task. The correct definitions were, for counter-urbanization 1b, the movement of people away from cities to the countryside and for commuter settlements it was 2a. Those that act as a residential area for people who travel to work each day. Double check you've got that correct before we continue with our learning today. So we're going to focus on one particular area of the UK, North Somerset. And you can see very clearly on the map on the screen where North Somerset is located. Is a mainly rural area in Southwest England. And the areas population has increased by about 7.8% between 2005 and 2015. We can see the influence of counter-urbanization and commuter settlements on this population change because many people have moved to these rural areas that have access to Bristol. So people might be commuting to Bristol, or there may have come to urbanised away from Bristol to live in the rural areas in North Somerset. You can see very clearly what rural growth looks like in North Somerset. Both of these images are from a very small little village called Yatton, which is about 30 miles away from Bristol by car and 20 minutes from Bristol by train. In the last 10 years, Yatton has seen great change in their character. And you can see that with the new build at the top of the screen Chestnut park and the traditional look of the village in that bottom image. And there's been a 27% increase in house prices as that demand has increased as more people have moved to those areas such as Yatton. We will see as we move through the lesson, the influence that both counter-urbanization and commuter settlements can have on the character and appearance of some of our rural areas. And at times this can cause great conflict with those people that live in the rural areas. So rural growth and rural change is happening in areas where people are able to commute or people have counter-urbanized away from large urban areas. For North Somerset. It's that movement away from Bristol and Bristol is quite a pull factor as a larger urban area that would have huge amounts of different types of employment. So we've learned to have a character of rural areas can change as growth occurs. But we need to look at now the specific social and economic impacts, the North Somerset have experienced. Social impacts are those affecting people and economic impacts are those affecting money and income. Socially, North Somerset has experienced congestion on the roads as people are commuting to work. Some services for example, schools have become oversubscribed as families have moved in. Many people moving in are elderly, which puts pressure on services in those rural communities. Economically house prices have risen by over 6.7%, which out prices local people and positively employment and wages are now above the national average. For our specific example of North Somerset, it's really important that you know, these key social and economic impacts. So at this point I will pause the video and double check that you've got these noted down so you can refer back to these later in the lesson. So your challenge now is to hide the notes that you've just made. You've got six different statements on the screen, which are all impacts of rural growth. All that you need to do is identify which of those six statements are social impacts, and which of them are economic impacts. Pause the video at this point and see what you can remember from those ideas that we've just been through and the ideas that hopefully you made some notes of. We'll resume the video together and pop them into their correct category. So we should've picked out, the statements one and four were economic impacts and statements two, three, five, and six, were social impacts. think carefully about how these are social and economic impacts and make sure that you've got them in the correct categories. You may pause the video at this point to do so. That brings us to our main task of the lesson. Today we're going to look at two, three mark questions. The first question asks us to explain the social impact of rural growth in the UK. And the second question asks us to explain the economic impact of rural growth in the UK. I would really encourage you to pick out one social impact and then use connectives in your writing, such as those on the screen, to help you develop your idea, to say why it is an impact. And again for your economic impact, pick out one particular economic impact of rural growth and use those connectives to help you develop your ideas. Pause the video at this point, give yourself seven or eight minutes to complete the task. And we will go through these answers together. Once you come back, so did you get any of these answers? I've put for question one, one social impact of rural growth in the UK is increased congestion on the roads, first Mark. This is seen in North Somerset as commuters travelled to Bristol for work. It's a nice specific idea there for second mark. This means that travel times and pollution may increase. I've explained why that particular impact would be a problem socially. You could also have talked about that. The character of the village causing conflict, the schools becoming oversubscribed and healthcare being under pressure is elderly move in. Whatever social impact you've chosen, Just make sure that you've linked that to a development term, so you can say why that is an impact. Economically for my second question, I've said one economic impact of rural growth in the UK is increased house prices, first mark. This has been seen in North Somerset as prices rose by 6.7%. lovely specific there, my second mark. This means that locals are priced out of the area. There's my third mark for my specific. You could alternatively have picked out a positive there and talked about employment and wages being above national average and talked about why there's a positive economic impact of rural growth. Double check that you've got these ideas down, underline or highlight where you feel you've used specifics, and you've developed your ideas and pause the video if you need to borrow anything from the screen. That brings us to the end of today's lesson, a massive well done for the work that you've done today. We've looked at how economic change in the UK has led to rural growth. And we've looked specifically at those two causes of counter- urbanisation and commuter settlements. You should now know about North Somerset and the specific example of how we've seen rural growth in that particular part of the UK. And you should have some key ideas noted down for that area. Make sure that you do the quiz that's linked to this lesson to show us what you've learned and to also show yourself what you know. And if you're doing this next lesson, we'll go on to look at the UK landscapes that are experiencing decline, rather than the growth. A big well done for the work you've done today.

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This lesson will focus on the trend of rural growth in the UK, with special focus given to North Somerset.

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