Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. List of figures, tables and images vi
4. Foreword vii
5. Acknowledgements ix
6. Introducing the rural housing question
7. The rural housing question 3
8. The British countryside: nostalgia, romanticism and intervention 9
9. Protecting and consuming the countryside 19
10. Evolving agendas in rural housing 31
11. Housing and the rural economy 45
12. People and movement in rural areas
13. New residents in rural areas 57
14. Retirement and ageing 69
15. Buying second homes 79
16. International migrants 91
17. Planning, housing supply and local need
18. Planning and land for housing 103
19. Private house-building 111
20. Planning and affordable rural housing 125
21. Targeting ‘local’ needs 141
22. Tenure and policy intervention
23. Social renting 155
24. Private renting 169
25. Rural low-cost home ownership 179
26. Homelessness 193
27. Answering the rural housing question
28. Strategic and community initiatives in Britain’s countrysides 207
29. England, Scotland and Wales in context 223
30. The rural housing question: towards an answer 237
31. Defining rurality 243
32. References 249
33. Index 279