It is, after all, well within the Greater London conurbation, usually taken to be the area enclosed by the M25 London Orbital motorway, which is on average about twenty miles from central London. 毕竟,这完全在大伦敦都市圈以内,通常是被M25号伦敦环线高速公路围绕的区域,那里平均起来距伦敦市中心大约二十英里。
conurbation
[ noun ] an aggregation or continuous network of urban communities <noun.location>
An inquiry into the Trafford Centre in 1988 found that it would not cause 'unacceptable harm to the regeneration of the conurbation or to the vitality and viability of any existing town centre'.
One employer fumed: 'Christchurch, Bournemouth and Poole look like one conurbation from the air and they feel like one when you drive through them.
The land is geographically so important.' He fears that if that section of the green belt vanishes 'we could end up with a conurbation the size of Manchester.' His anger is echoed six miles further along the route in the village of Harrietsham.
I can't see why we need more than one council.' While the entire conurbation is currently served by the county council, there would be no authority with overall control of planning if the plans were carried out.
'There is little, if any, land on the periphery of the conurbation that is not designated green belt.
The road would run from the M6 east of Cannock, Staffordshire, around the conurbation to rejoin the M6 near Coleshill, by the junction of the M6 with the M42. Plans for the motorway have been debated since 1980.
It would, after all, be nonsensical if motorists had to fit their vehicles with a different communication system to suit every conurbation they envisaged driving in. To some, electronic road charging may still have an air of science fiction about it.
Liverpool airport handles only 500,000 passengers a year. Mr Boyle said Direct Holidays was aiming at the 1.4m-population Merseyside conurbation.