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CITY REGION BOUNDARIES STUDY
CHAPTER SEVEN COMPARISON OF ZONES OF INFLUENCE
7.1 The analysis in this report has looked separately at housing market areas, transport links, travel to work and retail catchments. It may be possible to manage planning of cross boundary issues by topic using these boundaries to assess the stake which each Council should have in the City Plans, and the stake which the City Councils should have in the plans of the Councils in the City Regions. However the administration of strategic planning may be simpler if composite City Regions can be identified.
7.2 For each city, Councils have been ranked on a scale of 0 to 5 for housing market areas, retail catchments, and travel to work to define a composite score suggesting the overall level of joint working needed. Transport links have not been included for the reasons given in Section 4.3 and to avoid double counting of impacts. A score of 5 identifies a major influence and a score of 0 identifies negligible influence. Table 7 shows this analysis for Glasgow.
Table 7 - Cross Boundary Linkages with Glasgow
Council area | Score |
HMA | TTWA | Retail | Average |
Dumfries and Galloway | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.7 |
East Lothian | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.3 |
Midlothian | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.3 |
City of Edinburgh | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1.3 |
West Lothian | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
South Lanarkshire | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4.3 |
East Ayrshire | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2.3 |
South Ayrshire | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
North Ayrshire | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3.7 |
East Renfrewshire | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
North Lanarkshire | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4.7 |
Falkirk | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1.7 |
East Dunbartonshire | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
Renfrewshire | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4.7 |
Inverclyde | 0 | 3 | 4 | 2.3 |
West Dunbartonshire | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 |
Stirling | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
Clackmannanshire | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.7 |
Fife | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1.3 |
Perth and Kinross | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.7 |
Argyll and Bute | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1.3 |
7.3 Table 8, Table 9 and Table 10 show similar analyses for Edinburgh, Dundee and Aberdeen respectively.
Table 8 - Cross Boundary Linkages with Edinburgh
Council area | Score |
HMA | TTWA | Retail | Average |
Scottish Borders | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
East Lothian | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
Midlothian | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
West Lothian | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4.3 |
South Lanarkshire | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1.3 |
North Lanarkshire | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.3 |
City of Glasgow | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Falkirk | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2.3 |
Stirling | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Clackmannanshire | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1.3 |
Fife | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3.7 |
Perth and Kinross | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Highland | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 |
Table 9 - Cross Boundary Linkages with Dundee
Council area | Score |
HMA | TTWA | Retail | Average |
Fife | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
Perth and Kinross | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
Angus | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 |
Aberdeenshire | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.3 |
Table 10 - Cross Boundary Linkages with Aberdeen
Council area | Score |
HMA | TTWA | Retail | Average |
Fife | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Angus | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.3 |
Aberdeenshire | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4.3 |
Moray | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.7 |
7.4 For each city, the composite scores are summarised by Council in Table 11.
Table 11 - Composite Council Catchments by City
City | Composite Score |
4 or more | 3 or more | 2 or more | 1 or more |
Glasgow | North Lanarkshire
South Lanarkshire
East Dunbartonshire
West Dunbartonshire
Renfrewshire
East Renfrewshire | North Ayrshire
Stirling | East Ayrshire
South Ayrshire
Inverclyde | Argyll and Bute
City of Edinburgh
West Lothian
Fife
Falkirk |
Edinburgh | East Lothian
Midlothian
West Lothian | Fife
Scottish Borders | Falkirk | Stirling
Perth and Kinross
South Lanarkshire
City of Glasgow
Clackmannanshire |
Dundee | Angus | | Perth and Kinross
Fife | |
Aberdeen | Aberdeenshire | | | Fife |
7.5 The fact that Councils with relatively strong economies such as Stirling are more likely to achieve higher scores, and Councils with weaker economies such as Inverclyde have lower scores raises a challenge for planning in the city regions. A key goal will be to bring the economy of Inverclyde up to the average for the city region, rather than to exclude it on the grounds that it is not as important to the economy of Glasgow as other Councils more remote from the city.
7.6 Nevertheless, provided these policy factors are included, Table 11 should help to inform the debate on cross boundary planning for the City Regions.
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