The Rural Housing Question

For the past century, governments have been compelled, time and again, to return to the search for solutions to the housing and economic challenges posed by a restructuring countryside. The rural housing question is an analysis of the complexity of housing and development tensions in the rural areas of England, Wales and Scotland. It analyses a range of topics: from attitudes to rural development, economic change, land use, planning and counter-urbanisation; through retirement and ageing, leisure consumption, lifestyle shifts and homelessness; to public and private house building, private and public renting and community initiatives. Across this spectrum of concerns, it attempts to isolate the fundamental tensions that give the rural housing question an intractable quality. The book is aimed at policy makers, researchers, students and anyone with an interest in the future of the British countryside.

ISBN 1847423841   Pages 288 ISBN13 9781847423849 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 599 Publisher Policy Press   Published in Bristol Imprint Policy Press   Height (mm) 240 Format Paperback   Width (mm) 172 Publication date 01 Sep 2010   Spine width (mm) 23 DEWEY 363.50941   Academic level Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

		List of figures, tables and images
		Foreword by Tony Champion
		Acknowledgements
Part I		Introducing the rural housing question
one		The rural housing question		3
two		The British countryside: nostalgia, romanticism and intervention		9
three		Protecting and consuming the countryside		19
four		Evolving agendas in rural housing		31
five		Housing and the rural economy		45
Part II		People and movement in rural areas
six		New residents in rural areas		57
seven		Retirement and ageing		69
eight		Buying second homes		79
nine		International migrants		91
Part III		Planning, housing supply and local need
ten		Planning and land for housing		103
eleven		Private house-building		111
twelve		Planning and affordable rural housing		125
thirteen		Targeting álocal' needs		141
Part IV		Tenure and policy intervention
fourteen		Social renting		155
fifteen		Private renting		169
sixteen		Rural low-cost home ownership		179
seventeen		Homelessness		193
Part V		Answering the rural housing question
eighteen		Strategic and community initiatives in Britain's countrysides		207
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"Nick Gallent builds on his already extensive repertoire of insights on British rural housing in this volume, providing a comprehensive assessment of policy issues and conundrums for key rural housing questions." Keith Hoggart, King's College, London. "Rural housing is the key issue in rural Britain. This authoritative and stimulating book provides a clear and comprehensive review of research and policy. I recommend it to anyone with an interest in the future of our countryside." Professor Mark Shucksmith OBE, Newcastle University. "...this book is prescient in the nature of its recommendations and should be considered required reading in the context of current policy developments." Tom Moore in Housing Studies Journal

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