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 aurie** or the **Sootheast metropolitan aurie**. 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. 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. 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." has a population of 9,294,800 (2005 estimate).

### 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&nbsp;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:

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.

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.

## See an aw
* Hame coonties

## References

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