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Conurbation meaning
A continuous aggregation of built-up urban communities created as a result of urban sprawl.
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Greater Penang (conurbation of George Town) The National Physical Plan of Malaysia envisages a Conurbation of George Town encompassing George Town and surrounding areas.
In a statement, the Independents said: "The two-year Tory leadership of Drew Mellor has been an unmitigated disaster for BCP Council and more importantly for all residents across the conurbation.
Today, Great Bridge forms part of the sprawling West Midlands conurbation where towns and villages have seemingly merged into one.
Transport in the conurbation is set to be disrupted by major works starting in Herbert Avenue on Monday, February 13, for a new development to be connected to sewers, and on nearby Yarmouth Road, for resurfacing.
Martin Whitchurch, strategic lead for greenspace at BCP Council, has devised a ‘Plan for Play’ strategy designed to bring improvements to the conurbation's play infrastructure.
Proposals for reduced speed limits go beyond Highcliffe and Walkford; last week deputy council leader Millie Earl said it was BCP Council’s intention to make the conurbation’s roads a default 20mph limit.
This is despite the objections of the Schools Forum in the conurbation, they said, adding that the application included noting that the forum had only agreed to the transfer of the surplus schools block funding, which is 0.1 per cent, or £400,000.
Silly advice, it's one big urban conurbation.
He said that modern culture seeks the iconic building because it has the possibility of reversing the economic trend of a flagging conurbation.
A conurbation's dominance can be measured by output, wealth, and especially population, each expressed as a percentage of an entire country.
As the airport is west of London and as its runways run east–west, an airliner's landing approach is usually directly over the conurbation of London when the wind is from the west.
In 1815 the Worcester and Birmingham Canal opened, allowing Worcester goods to be transported to a larger conurbation.
In addition to the official population, the adjacent East-West corridor conurbation has a population close to 600,000 people and the "big city" feel with its suburban car dominated commuting.
Legnica is the largest city of the Legnicko-Głogowski Okręg Miedziowy conurbation.
Nevertheless, industrialisation remained quite traditional in the sense that it did not lead to the growth of modern and large urban centres, but to a conurbation of industrial villages and towns developed around a coal-mine or a factory.
Ore, Silverhill and Hollington were once villages that have since become part of the Hastings conurbation area during rapid growth.
Sussex's population is dominated by the Brighton/Worthing/Littlehampton conurbation that, with a population of over 470,000, is home to almost 1 in 3 of Sussex's population.
The conurbations around The Hague and Rotterdam are close enough to be a single conurbation in some contexts.
The historic town of Wellington now makes up part of the Telford conurbation.
Together with Kinshasa, the combined conurbation of Kinshasa-Brazzaville has thus about 12 million inhabitants (although significant political and infrastructure challenges prevent the two cities from functioning with any meaningful connection).