Burton Latimer in context: Street-network sprawl trends

The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Burton Latimer plotted against England and United Kingdom. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Burton Latimer's incremental SNDi fell from 5.26 to 4.12 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Burton Latimer ranked 76th out of 124 cities in England and 85th out of 143 in United Kingdom as of 2020.

Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.

What about similarly populated cities?

• Al Tallin, Egypt
• Shikrapur, India
• Wukro, Ethiopia
• Paithan, India
• Dayangshu, China
• Taozhuang, China

In new street additions, Burton Latimer built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Al Tallin built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns and Paithan built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. For the full network, Burton Latimer became progressively more disconnected, while Al Tallin became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards and Paithan grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. Notably, Burton Latimer had a more connected network than Paithan in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.