RP09. URBAN FRINGE
(updated: May 16, 2006 )

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Barton, Hugh, et al., 1999, 'New vision for outer sprawl' (strategic problem of Bristol Northern Fringe), Planning 1308, 5.3.99.

Bennett, Richard, et al., 1995, 'The value of footpath provision in the countryside: A case study of public access to urban fringe woodland', Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 38 (3), pp409-417.

Best, R & Rogers, A, 1973, 'The Urban Countryside', Faber & Faber Ltd., London.

Bishop, Kevin, 1992, 'Assessing the benefits of community forests: an evaluation of the recreational use of two urban fringe woodlands', Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 35, pp63-76.

Beynon, N J, & Wetton, B W, 1979, 'Recreation and the Urban Fringe: A Study of Issues in the East Midlands', Countryside Commission/Sports Council.

Broughton, Frank, 1996, 'Fringe issues', Landscape Design, September, pp34-36.

Burgess, J., 1995, 'Growing in Confidence: a study of perceptions of risk in urban fringe woodlands', Technical report CCP 457, Countryside Commission (former), Cheltenham.

Bryant, C. & Johnston, T., 1991, 'Agriculture in the City's Countryside', ?

Countryside Commission (merged with the Rural Development Commission on 1 April 1999 to form the
Countryside Agency) publications available from Countryside Agency Postal Sales, Wetherby.
'New Agriculture Landscapes: Objectives and Action', 1974.
'The Bollin Valley: a Study of Land Management in the Urban Fringe', 1976.
'Countryside Management in the Urban Fringe', 1981.
'Farming in the Fringe', 1981.
'Countryside Management in the Urban Fringe', 1981.
'The Community Forest: planning, design and implementation', CCP 271, 1989.
'Growing in confidence: understanding people's perception of urban fringe woodlands', CCP 547, 1995. ISBN 0 86170 429 0
'Greenways' (leaflet), CCX 49, 1998 (free)
*'Linking town and country: policies for the countryside around towns', CCP 546, 1999. (free). ISBN 0 86170 505 X

Countryside Recreation Network, Leisure Industries Research Centre,
Unit 1, Sheffield Science Park, Howard Street, Sheffield S1 2LX
- website: http://www.CountrysideRecreation.org.uk
Workshop Proceedings:
‘Playing Safe? Managing visitor safety in the countryside’, 1995.
'Do Visitors' Surveys County? - Making use of Surveys for Countryside Recreation', 1996.
'Just Walking the Dog', 1999.
'Opening up Access In and Around Towns', 2002.

County Planning Officers' Society (CPOS) (former; now part of the Planning Officers' Society) (former; part of Local Government Association- LGA) since 1996 (CPOS)/Metropolitan Planning Officers' Society/ District Planning Officers' Society, 1992, 'Planning in the Urban Fringe: Final Report of the Joint Special Advisory Group', CPOS, MPOS, DPOS, c/o Department of Planning and Economic Development, Cleveland County Council.

Cronk, Bob, 1995, 'The Norwich Fringe - An Area of Contrast', (Ambit Publications) Report for the Natural and Built Environment, Issue 11, December.

Crowe, Lynne & Jones, Mel, 1995, 'Urban fringe - accessible or note?', Countryside Recreation Network News, July, pp8-10.

Daniels, T, 1999, 'When city and country collide: Managing growth in the metropolitan fringe', Island Press, Washington DC.

De Castella, 2000, 'Targeting the fringe for growth' (South West RPG and Bristol's northern fringe), Planning 1361, 24.3.00.

Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions (DTLR) (June 2001-May 2002)
- website: http://www.dtlr.gov.uk/
'The Implementation of National Planning Policy Guidance (PPG7) in Relation to the Diversification of Farm Businesses', October 2001, DTLR Publications Sales Centre, Goldthorpe, Rotherham S63 9BL, tel: (01709) 891318; free copy of the Executive Summary can be obtained from DTLR Free Literature, PO Box 126, Wetherby, LS23 7NB, tel: (0870) 1226 236.

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR) (June 1997 - June 2001)
- website: http://www.detr.gov.uk
'*Our Towns and Cities: The future - Delivering an urban renaissance', November 2000, http://www.regeneration.detr.gov.uk/policies/ourtowns/cm4911/index.htm
*'Our Countryside: The Future - A Fair Deal for Rural England' (Rural White Paper), DETR, November 2000 (OFL on 29.11.00), http://www.wildlife-countryside.detr.gov.uk/ruralwp/index.htm
*'Planning Policy Guidance note 7, The Countryside: Environmental Quality and Economic and Social Development (PPG7)' (revised version), DETR, March 2001, and at http://www.planning.dtlr.gov.uk/ppg/ppg7/index.htm
NB: DETR replaced from June 2001 to May 2002 by the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions (DTLR)

Dewar, David, 2004, 'Breathing new life into undervalued resource', (Countryside Agency report on the potential of the urban fringe), Planning 1455, 6.2.04, p9

Edwards, Peter, 2000, 'Avoiding own goals in the sports field' (leisure facilities on the urban fringe and green belt guidance), Planning 1385, 8.9.00.

Elson, Martin, 1987, 'The urban fringe - Will less farming mean more leisure?', The Planner, October, pp16-18.
Elson, Martin, 1996, 'Green belts - conflict and mediation in the urban fringe', Heinemann, London.
Elson, Martin, 2003, 'On the tail of a green fringe' (Community Forests and the Urban Fringe), Planning 1504, 31.1.03, p15
Elson, Martin, 2003, 'Plannig for Delivery of Quality of Life Benefits - an Evaluation of Planning Mechanisms with Respect to Community Forests', Coiuntryside Agency PUblications, tel. (0870) 120 6466, January.

European Greenways Association / Association europeene des Voies vertes, 2000, 'The European Greenways Good Practice Guide: Examples of actions undertaken in cities and the periphery', available in English, French, German, Spanish, European Greenways Association / Association europeene des Voies vertes, Gare de Namur, boite 27, B-5000 Namur, tel. +32 81 224256, fax. +32 81 229002, email: aevv.ogwa@gate71.be ; also available for £5 from Sustrans, Bristol,
tel. (0117) 929 0888. HT151.E8

Evans, S & Mabbitt, R, 1997, 'Redefining the urban fringe', Town and Country Planning 66 (2), pp56-57.

Irving, J.A, 1985, 'The Public in your woods: an owner's guide to managing urban fringe woodland for recreation', Packard Publishing Ltd, Chichester, Sussex.

Evans, Simon, & Mabbit, Richard, 1997, 'Redefining the Urban Fringe', Town and Country Planning 66 (2), February, pp56-57.

Feature, 2004, 'Focus on the rural urban fringe should be priority', (RTPI comments on the Countryside Agency and Groundwork's Consultation Paper 'Unlocking the Potential of the Rural Urban Fringe'), Planning 1586, 10.9.04, p23

Furuseth, Owen J & Lapping, Mark B, 2000, 'Contested Countryside: The Rural Urban Fringe in North America', Ashgate, Aldershot, Hampshire. ISBN 1 85972 662 3

Gallent, Nick; Shoard, Marion; Andersson, Johan Andersson; Oades, Richard ; Tudor, Christine, 2004, ':England's urban fringes: multi-functionality and planning 1', Local Environment 9 (3), June, p217, http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=J0FYQQNPE20KD82J
Gallent, Nick; Andersson, Johann; Bianconi, Marco, 2006, 'Planning on the Edge’, Taylor & Francis, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, ISBN 0 415 37571 (Hb) / 0 415 40290 5 (pb)

Grayson, Lesley, 1990, 'Green belts: greenfields and the urban fringe: the pressure on land in the 1980s: A Guide to Sources', London Research Centre and British Library, London.

Griffiths, Jed, 1994, 'The last frontier' (future direction of the urban fringe management process), Planning Week 2 (11), 17.3.94.

Irving, J.A, 1985, 'The Public in your woods: an owner's guide to managing urban fringe woodland for recreation', Packard Publishing Ltd, Chichester, Sussex.

Jones, Peter, 1987, 'Urban fringe management projects in Scotland', Scottish Geographical Magazine, December, pp166-170.
Jones, Peter; Comfort, Daphne & Hillier, David, 2004, 'Focus on the fringe' (discussion of the Countrside Agency/Groundwork consultation paper), Town and Country Planning 73 (3), March, pp78-79

Kendle, Tony & Forbes, Stephen, 1996, 'Urban Nature Conservation: Landscape Management in the Urban Fringe', 1st edition, E & FN Spon, London. GP5511.KEN

McMillen, D.P, 1989, 'An empirical model of urban fringe land use', Land Economics 65 (2), pp138-145.

Miller, Mansil, 1998, 'Developing quality' (in Belfast's urban fringe), Landscape Design, July/August, pp40-42.

National Farmers' Union, 2002, 'Survey of farmers on the urban fringe' (?exact title), NFU, October.

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister: http://www.odpm.gov.uk/
(in May 2002 took over responsibilities for planning from the
Department for Transport, Local Government & the Regions (DTLR) (June 2001-May 2002-);
DTLR Planning and Local Government functions
*'Planning Policy Guidance (PPG) 17: Planning for Open Space, Sport and Recreation', July 2002, http://www.planning.odpm.gov.uk/ppg/ppg17/index.htm

Osment, Frazer, 1998, 'The development - countryside conflict', (sustainable development in the urban fringe), Landscape Design, October, pp26-29.

Ove Arup & Partners for the (former) Countryside Commission, 1998, 'Town Edge Housing Development: the Countryside Dimension', Ove Arup & Partners (with support of the DETR & the RICS), London.

Pacione, Michael, 1990, 'Development Pressure in the metropolitan fringe', Land Development Studies, May, pp69-82.
Pacione, Michael, 1991, 'Development pressure and the production of the built environment in the urban fringe', Scottish Geographical Magazine, December, pp162-169.

Pahl, R, 1965, 'Urbs in Rure: the Metropolitan Fringe in Hertfordshire', London School of Economics Geographical Papers no 2, LSE, London

Phillips, Peter, 1992, 'New strategy needed for tackling fringe', Planning 993, 6.11.92.
Phillips, Peter, 1995, 'Fringe benefits', Landscape Design, April 1995, pp24-25.

Poore, A, 1982, 'Coppice management in East Anglian woodlands and its application in urban fringe conservation', Arboricultural Journal 6, pp81-94.

Potter, Clive, 1993, 'Playing the planner; public participation in the urban fringe,' Town and Country Planning, February.

Pryce, Gareth, 1998, 'The case for the Urban Fringe', The Planner 78 (13) 2, 3.7.98.

*Ravetz, Joe, 1999, 'City-Region 2020: Integrating Planning for a Sustainable Environment' (Chapter 7: Land and Ecology including 'Greening the fringe'), Earthscan in association with the Town and Country Planning Association, London. ISBN 1 85383 606 0 (pb) / 1 85383 607 9 (Hb). (GP5819.RAV)

Shoard, Marion, ?2000, 'Edgelands of Promise', Landscapes 1 (2), (published twice-yearly by Windgather Press, 31 Shrigley Road, Bollington, Cheshire SK10 5RD).
Shoard, Marion, 2003, 'The edgelands', Town and Country Planning 72 (4), May, p113

South Bank University, 1992, 'Problems of the Urban Fringe', CPD Centre, South Bank University, London.

Sport England, 16 Upper Woburn Place, London WC1H 0QP,
tel. (020) 7273 1500, fax. (020) 7383 5740:
- website: http://www.sportengland.org
'The Urban Fringe', Planning Bulletin Issue 5, ESC, 1999.

The Countryside Agency (publications available from
TCA Postal Sales, Wetherby, tel. (0870) 129 6466:
- website: http://www.countryside.gov.uk
*'Linking Town and Country - policies for the countryside around towns', 1999.
'Regeneration around cities: the role of England's Community Forest', CAX33, free, 1999.
'The Don and Dearne Green Corridors Initiative', TCA, Leeds, tel. (0113) 246 9222, March 2000.
'Horse Pasture Management Study', February 2001.
'Rural Urban Fringe Consultation', January 2004, http://www.info4local.gov.uk/searchreport.asp?id=18496&heading=e-mail+alert
(TCA & Groundwork) 'The Countryside In and Around Towns: A vision for connecting town and country in the pursuit of sustainable development', February 2005,
http://www.info4local.gov.uk/searchreport.asp?id=23285&heading=e-mail+alert

Toft, David, 1995, 'Green belt and the urban fringe', Built Environment 21 (1), pp54-59.

Travis, A S & Veal A J, 1979, 'Recreation and the urban fringe', (CRAGG Conference Proceedings), University of Birmingham Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, Birmingham.

Ward, Colin, 2001, 'Fringe benefits' (discussion of Marion Shoard's 'Edgelands of Promise' articles), Town and Country Planning 70 (1), January.

Whitehand, J.W.R, 1967, 'Fringe belts: A neglected aspect of urban geography', Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 41, pp223-233.
Whitehand, J.W.R, 1987, 'The changing face of cities: A study of development cycles and urban form', Basil Blackwell, Oxford.
Whitehand, J.W.R & Morton, N.J, 2004, 'Urban morphology and planning: the case of fringe belts', Cities, 21 (4), August, pp 275-289
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