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Nottingham built-up area subdivisions, 2011
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The Nottingham Built-up Area (BUA), Nottingham Urban Area, or Greater Nottingham is an area of land defined by the Office for National Statistics as built-up land with a minimum area of 20 hectares (200,000 m2), while settlements within 200 metres of each other are linked. [1] [2] It consists of the city of Nottingham and the adjoining urban areas of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, in the East Midlands of England. It had a total population of 729,977 at the time of the 2011 census. [3] This was an increase of almost 10% since the 2001 census recorded population of 666,358, [4] due to population increases, reductions and several new sub-divisions.

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Geography

Notable Settlements of Nottingham Urban Area
Nottingham Skyline with Council House.jpg
Beeston, NG9 - Town Hall - geograph.org.uk - 3234947.jpg
Musters Road, West Bridgford - geograph.org.uk - 5291017.jpg
St Mary's Church, Ilkeston, Derbyshire.jpg
Arnold Town Centre 6540.jpg
St Lawrence's Church in Heanor - geograph.org.uk - 3058768.jpg
St Mary's Church, Clifton - geograph.org.uk - 3851861.jpg
Market Square in Ripley - geograph.org.uk - 4255442.jpg
Rooftops at Long Eaton - geograph.org.uk - 2577262.jpg
Ruddington, St Peter - geograph.org.uk - 4042511.jpg
Notable settlements of Nottingham Urban Area

Landmarks from top left to bottom right:

  1. Nottingham City Skyline
  2. Town Hall, Beeston
  3. Musters Road, West Bridgford
  4. St Mary's Church, Ilkeston
  5. Arnold Town Centre
  6. St Lawrence's Church, Heanor
  7. St Mary's Church, Clifton
  8. Market Square, Ripley
  9. Rows of housing in Long Eaton
  10. St Peter's Church, Ruddington

Greater Nottingham is largely within the three districts of Rushcliffe, Broxtowe and Gedling surrounding the city, though the area spills into the Nottinghamshire district of Ashfield, and also to the Amber Valley and Erewash districts of Derbyshire. The Nottingham Urban Area is, by the ONS' figures, the 8th largest in England (9th in the UK), with a population size between that of the Tyneside and Sheffield built-up areas, and a total area of 68.1 square miles (176 km2). [5]

The Nottingham Urban Area is bounded to the west by a narrow gap between Draycott (to the west of the Breaston urban area sub-division) and Borrowash (to the east of the Derby Urban Area). The Heanor/Ripley and West Hallam north-western extensions have a somewhat tenuous linkage through to the core of Nottingham City largely due to ribbon development, and are in close proximity to other nearby urban areas which together, almost link to Derby from the north. [6]

Sub-divisions do not always match administrative geographic boundaries; the subdivision of Clifton for example is within the Nottingham Unitary Authority city area but is subdivided by the River Trent. The Nottingham subdivision oversteps the city's borders at several locations. Together, these two subdivisions exceed the official city population (305,680 in 2011 [7] ) as a result, even though West Bridgford includes the counts of city suburbs Silverdale and Wilford. [8]

In the 1991 census, [9] Ilkeston was considered outside of the Nottingham Urban Area, [10] and its addition gave the BUA an 8% increase in 2001. This was due to improvements in mapping methodology by the ONS, and is chiefly responsible for the increase in sub-divisions over censuses rather than any large scale 'bricks and mortar' building, [11] as much of the area between the cities is protected green belt and wedges, restricting actual development. [6]

Urban subdivisionPopulationDistrictCounty
1981 census1991 census2001 census2011 census
Nottingham 273,300270,222249,584289,301 City of Nottingham Nottinghamshire
Beeston 64,78566,62666,68351,479 Broxtowe Nottinghamshire
Carlton 46,05347,30248,49349,235 Gedling Nottinghamshire
West Bridgford 27,46333,84343,39545,509 Rushcliffe Nottinghamshire
Ilkeston ——37,27038,640 Erewash Derbyshire
Arnold 37,72137,64637,40237,768 Gedling Nottinghamshire
Long Eaton 42,28544,82646,49037,760 Erewash Derbyshire
Hucknall 27,46329,16029,18832,107 Ashfield Nottinghamshire
Heanor 21,86322,18022,62025,644 Amber Valley Derbyshire
Clifton ——22,31222,407 City of Nottingham Nottinghamshire
Ripley 17,54818,31018,52319,315 Amber Valley Derbyshire
Eastwood 18,08519,36318,61218,422 Broxtowe Nottinghamshire
Stapleford ———16,190 Broxtowe Nottinghamshire
Kimberley 9,81810,48811,02711,353 Broxtowe Nottinghamshire
Sandiacre ———9,600 Erewash Derbyshire
Breaston —7,2847,3057,545 Erewash Derbyshire
Ruddington 6,5046,4766,2647,020 Rushcliffe Nottinghamshire
West Hallam ———6,016 Erewash Derbyshire
Awsworth ———2,517 Broxtowe Nottinghamshire
Trowell ——1,013953 Broxtowe Nottinghamshire
Stanton-By-Dale ———505 Erewash Derbyshire
Denby Common ———495 Amber Valley Derbyshire
Ruddington Grange ——177196 Rushcliffe Nottinghamshire
Total593,768613,726666,358729,977
Change-+3.36%+8.58%+9.55%
Notes:

Greater Nottingham Partnership/D2N2

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 together worked as an advisory and lobbying body for projects and decisions involving the region. However it was axed due to funding in 2011 and the D2N2 Local Enterprise Partnership is instead assuming those functions with cross-county political and local business support. [13]

Nottingham-Derby metropolitan area

Built-up area boundaries in 2011 showing Nottingham and Derby, with near convergence of surrounding major BUAs: Nottingham Derby Mansfield Alfreton/South Normanton Selston/Brinsley Belper Heage/Crich Kilburn Nottingham-Derby-Mansfield-Alfreton-Belper-Heage-Crich-BUA-2011.jpg
Built-up area boundaries in 2011 showing Nottingham and Derby, with near convergence of surrounding major BUAs:
  Nottingham
   Derby
   Mansfield
  Alfreton/South Normanton
   Belper
   Heage/Crich
   Kilburn

The conurbation forms a large part of the Nottingham-Derby metropolitan area, which has an estimated population of 1.5 million. [14] The urban areas of both Derby and Nottingham are almost continuous with Draycott (part of the Breaston Urban sub-division) being almost continuous with the Borrowash part of the Derby Urban Area. [15] The Mansfield Urban Area also forms part of this metropolitan area, although it is not continuous with the Nottingham Urban Area. However, it is almost continuous with the Alfreton/South Normanton Built-up area, which had a population of 41,289 according to the last census, [15] with the South Normanton/Pinxton Urban sub-division of the Alfreton Urban Area being almost continuous with the Sutton-in-Ashfield Urban sub-division of the Mansfield Urban Area. The Alfreton Urban Area is also nearly continuous with Ripley part of the Nottingham Urban Area. Other minor urban areas to the west of the Ripley, Heanor and West Hallam sub divisions daisy-chain towards Derby from the north, notably Belper, Kilburn and Crich/Heage. See the maps above for a demonstration of these BUAs in close proximity.

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