Talk:Greater Manchester Built-up Area

Definition of Greater Manchester Urban Area
This article isn't seemingly accurate in the definition of the GMUA, which comes up throughout the article - but I'll try to wrap my issues with it in one place.

The GMUA isn't based on the Greater Manchester county at all, but is "defined in terms of ... physical extent rather than by any administrative boundaries". It is therefore also inaccurate to suggest that it is made up of the "core metropolitan districts". There are parts of most GM Metropolitan Boroughs that are not part of the Urban Area - for example Marple within Stockport MBC, Hollingworth within Tameside MBC, Blackrod within Bolton MBC and I rather suspect the Ringway area within Manchester MBC (though the resident population of the area is too small to show up). All Greater Manchester MBCs have within them an amount of resident population outside the urban areas that will fall below the 1,500 population threshold to be included as a separate Urban Area.

The only place that administrative boundaries are used are the pre-1974 local government boundaries to differentiate settlements within the conurbation itself. Indeed, the GMUA shows a much closer resemblance to SELNEC than to Greater Manchester County - with areas such as Wilmslow being part of both SELNEC and the GMUA, but not the Metropolitan County.

Therefore, I believe that both the Lead Section and the Constituent Parts section require a rewrite. Fingerpuppet 19:49, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

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Why is Greater Manchester now called built up area its sounds pretty stupid to me. Just change it to Greater Manchester makes more sense because no one in real life says Greater Manchester built up area do they?? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vidal101 (talk • contribs) 14:57, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

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Proposal to merge
This proposal is being discussed as part of a more general discussion about the principle, at Wikipedia talk: WikiProject UK geography. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 12:46, 1 April 2022 (UTC)