Where my family home is, is in Devon. We live in Exeter and in an area of Exeter called Exwick. Exwick is a relatively new area of Exeter, having joined the City boundaries a lot later than many of the other boroughs (Pinhoe and Wonford for example have been part of Exeter since soon after the Romans left).
The area isn’t a ‘poor’ area but it’s also not the most affluent area in the City, being almost 3 miles from the City centre doesn’t help but it does reside near a small shopping centre. The sustainability of the area is pretty good, according to the data collected from the website, there are few families with more than 2 cars and there are many people within walking distance from their place of work, however there are 13 people who work over 60km away from their home, meaning their carbon footprint is bigger than average. There is also a good percentage of people using a car share scheme to get to and from work in Exwick (6%). This makes sense to me as having lived there all my life, i know for a fact that a lot of people work in and around Exwick and hence walk to work, also Exwick was one of the trial areas (in Exeter) for green, recycling bins. Further enhancing Exwick’s status as a sustainable area.
The air cleanliness scores a 0.86 out of 1 meaning that it is one of the cleanest areas in Exeter (if not one of the cleanest suburbs in the country?) and has a low level of air pollutants. Exwick has over 81 thousand sq meters of Greenland and from memory there are almost 9 football and rugby pitches in the area as well as many places of land for walks and recreational use.
Overall Exwick is (in my opinion) an area with a high level of sustainability. People walk to and from work on the whole and although there are a few families/people who’s carbon footprint is higher than average, that can be said about almost any area in the country, if not the world.
http://nile.northampton.ac.uk/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_tab_group_id=_4_1&url=%2Fwebapps%2Fblackboard%2Fexecute%2Flauncher%3Ftype%3DCourse%26id%3D_4755_1%26url%3D
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