Lunnon commuter belt

The Lunnon commuter belt is the metropolitan aurie surroondin Lunnon, Ingland frae which it is practical tae commute tae wirk in the caipital. It is alternatively kent as the Greater Sooth East, the Lunnon metropolitan aurieLondon Assembly  - London in its Regional Setting (PDF) or the Sootheast metropolitan aurie.Mayor of London  - London Plan (PDF, 7.6MB) It shoud no be ramfeeselt wi Greater Lunnon or the Greater London Urban Aurie.

Scope
The bundaries are no fixed; they expand as transport options impruive an affordable hoosin muives further away frae Lunnon.BBC News - The new commuter belt. 18 July 2006. The commuter belt currently covers hintle o the South East region an pairt o the East o Ingland region, includin the Hame coonties o Kent, Surrey, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire an Essex. The population o Greater Lunnon an these adjacent coonties wis 13,945,000 in 2001.Demographia - Southeast England Population by Area from 1891 Hintle o the undeveloped pairt o this aurie lees athin the designatit Metropolitan Green Belt so further significant urban development is generally resistit bi local authorities an the Planning Inspectorate. The Green belt currently covers nearly aw o Surrey, eastren Berkshire, soothren Buckinghamshire, soothren an mid Hertfordshire, soothren Bedfordshire, sooth-wast Essex, an wastren Kent.

Definitions
Travel tae Wirk Aurie
The Lunnon Travel tae Wirk Aurie, defined bi the Office for National Statistics as the aurie for which "o the resident economically active population, at least 75% actually wirk in the aurie, an an aw, that o iveryane wirkin in the aurie, at least 75% actually live in the aurie."Travel to Work Areas (TTWAs)  Beginners' guide to UK geography, Office for National Statistics has a population of 9,294,800 (2005 estimate).State of the Cities Database Report on the Urban Competitiveness Theme for: - London TTWA (LA) State of the Cities Database - Department for Communities and Local Government (Mid year population estimates on page 4 of the report)

Environs o Greater Lunnon
There are seiventeen local govrenment destricts that share a bundary wi Greater Lunnon in the East an Sooth East regions. Maist destricts are entirely, or hae sections, athin the bunds o the M25 motorwa or are athin 15–20 mile (24–32 km) o Charing Cross. Adjacent destricts aften share some characteristics o Ooter Lunnon such as formin pairt o the continuous urban sprawl, being served bi the London Underground, being covered bi the Lunnon telephone aurie code, till 2000 formin pairt o the Metropolitan Polis Destrict an haein a relatively heich employed population wirkin in Lunnon. These destricts are:

 Region  Coonty  Destricts whaur less nor 25%o those employed wirk in Lunnon  Districts whaur mair nor 25%o those employed wirk in Lunnon East  Hertfordshire  Welwyn Hatfield  Broxbourne, Hertsmere, Three Rivers Essex  n/a  Brentwood, Epping Forest, Thurrock South East  Kent  n/a  Dartford, Sevenoaks Surrey  Mole Valley, Reigate an Banstead  Elmbridge, Epsom an Ewell, Spelthorne, Tandridge Berkshire  Slough  Buckinghamshire  n/a  South Bucks

Auries tae the wast o Lunnon an aa come athin the commuter pull o Reading.

 ONS Greater Lunnon Urban Aurie

The Office for National Statistics includes the follaein urban sub-units frae adjacent regions in their "Greater Lunnon Urban Aurie" :

Sooth East Region
Addlestone
Ashtead
Banstead / Tadworth
Caterham an Warlingham
Chertsey
Crawley
Dartford
Egham
Epsom an Ewell
Esher / Molesey
Gravesend
Leatherhead
Northfleet
Ottershaw
Shepperton
Staines
Sunbury
Sunningdale / Ascot
Swanscombe
Virginia Water
Walton an Weybridge
Windlesham
Woking / Byfleet

East Region
Bushey
Cheshunt
Chigwell
Chorleywood
Harlow
Hemel Hempstead
Hoddesdon
Kings Langley
Loughton
Rickmansworth
South Oxhey
Waltham Abbey
Watford

Adjacent sub-regions
The East o Ingland Lunnon commuter belt sub-region is defined as the whole o Hertfordshire thegither wi the Essex destricts o Brentwood, Chelmsford, Epping Forest, Harlow an Uttlesford.North Hertfordshire  - A Housing Strategy for the London Commuter Belt Sub-region 2005 - 2008 (PDF)

The Sooth East Ingland Lunnon fringe sub-region is defined as a lairge proportion o Surrey includin aw o Spelthorne, Runnymede, Woking, Elmbridge, Epsom an Ewell an pairts o the destricts o Surrey Heath, Guildford, Mole Valley, Reigate an
Banstead, an Tandridge; an pairt o the Sevenoaks destrict of Kent.South East RA - London Fringe Sub-region 

See an aw
 Hame coonties

References

Freemit airtins
London Travel to Work Area mapped wi ithers 
Route Finder for Lunnon Commuter Belt 

Category:Geografie o Lunnon
Category:Lunnon wirds
Category:Metropolitan auries o Ingland
Category:Regions o Ingland