The rural housing question : : Community and planning in Britain's countrysides / / Madhu Satsangi, Nick Gallent, Mark Bevan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
• VerfasserIn: Satsangi, Madhu,; Bevan, Mark,; Gallent, Nick,
• MitwirkendeR: Champion, Tony,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- List of figures, tables and images -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introducing the rural housing question -- The rural housing question -- The British countryside: nostalgia, romanticism and intervention -- Protecting and consuming the countryside -- Evolving agendas in rural housing -- Housing and the rural economy -- People and movement in rural areas -- New residents in rural areas -- Retirement and ageing -- Buying second homes -- International migrants -- Planning, housing supply and local need -- Planning and land for housing -- Private house-building -- Planning and affordable rural housing -- Targeting ‘local’ needs -- Tenure and policy intervention -- Social renting -- Private renting -- Rural low-cost home ownership -- Homelessness -- Answering the rural housing question -- Strategic and community initiatives in Britain’s countrysides -- England, Scotland and Wales in context -- The rural housing question: towards an answer -- Defining rurality -- References -- Index