Outer Hebrides - Rural decline + South Cambridgeshire - Rural pop growth

Outer Hebrides - the population

27,000

Outer Hebrides - social impacts

• the number of school children is expected to fall over the next few years →school closures

• younger people will move away →fewer people of working age

Outer Hebrides - economic effects

farming - small farms can only provide work to 2 days per week

fishing - the development of fish farming has been limited due to concerns about the environment

tourism - the current infrastructure hasn’t been able to support the scale of tourism needed to provide an alternative source of income

South Cambridgeshire - population

154,000

South Cambridgeshire - social effects

• 80% of car ownership leads to increasing traffic congestion

• young people cannot afford housing

• modern development on edges of villages →reduced community spirit

South Cambridgeshire - economic effects

• a reduction in agricultural employment as farmers sell their land

• lack of affordable housing

• High petrol prices