Facts & figures about Herefordshire

Transport and environment

Key findings as identified in the 2011 State of Herefordshire Report and Joint Strategic Needs Assessment:

Strength

• Less of Herefordshire’s designated built  and historic environment is at high risk[1] in 2010 compared to 2009.
• Local wildlife sites and sites of special scientific interest in Herefordshire are increasingly being better managed.

Opportunity

• Access to nature is important to Herefordshire’s residents in making somewhere a good place to live.
• Households in Herefordshire are producing less waste and a greater proportion of household waste is now being recycled.
• Businesses and residents identify congestion (in Hereford City) as in need of improvement, although in 2010 the picture for congestion in Hereford City was not clear.

Threat and Challenge

• Salmon, which are an iconic species, saw considerable decline in the mid 1990s and catch numbers remain low.
• Emissions of CO2 decreased in Herefordshire between 2005 and 2008, but remain higher than for the UK as a whole.
• Changes to the global and local climate will directly impact on the quality of people’s daily lives.
• Air quality (as measured by Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) Emissions) has worsened in the last year across the majority of monitoring sites in the county
• Herefordshire loses approximately 5% of its working age population who travel to work outside the county.
  

Links to individual topic pages

Transport

Transportation and communication infrastructure is a key issue for the county, as it impacts on employment, health, access to services, quality of life and the county’s economic development. Herefordshire is particularly dependent on road transport because of limited public transport links within and outside the county. As a result the transport sector in Herefordshire produces more CO₂ per capita than other areas.

For general enquiries about transport, please see Herefordshire Council's transport and streets pages.

• Rail station usage
• Road usage
• Bus patronage
• Mode of travel to work
• Licensed Vehicle age and type
• Road casualties (link to the topic in "safer communities")

Environment

For general enquiries about the environment, please see Herefordshire Council's environment and planning pages.

• Air pollution: Nitrogen dioxide (NO₂) concentrations
• Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
• Land Use Statistics (Generalised Land Use Database)
• Household waste and recycling
• Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs)
• Deprivation of the outdoor living environment (Indices of Deprivation 2010)
  
  

Last updated: 20 December 2011