RP11. RURAL / COUNTRYSIDE STRATEGIES
(updated: February 27, 2006 )

• Detailed Topic Index / Main Planning bibliographies Index
• For relevant addresses, telephone/fax numbers, email & website addresses see
  PLANNING & PLANNING RELATED ORGANISATIONS
  
  See also the Countryside Planning, Green Belt, Structure Planning / Local planning indexes;
  in particular:- Agric. / AONBs / Archaeology / Coastal plg. / Commons & village greens /
  Community forests / Comparative rural plg. / C'side management / C'side plg. (gen.) / C'side stewardship / Gypsy sites /
  Landscape / National Parks / Recreation & leisure plg. / Redundant military bases /
  Rights of way / River valleys/flooding / Rural design / Rural emplt., diversification & regen. / Rural hsg. /
  Rural pressure groups / Rural settlements / Rural services / Rural social exclusion / Rural sustainability /
  Rural tourism / Rural transp. / Telecommunications / Trees, forestry etc. / Urban fringe / Wind farms
• and also: Biodiversity in the Sustainable Development bibliography
• Central gov (& plg.) / Community plg. & strategies / Local gov / Parish & Community Councils /
  Partnerships in the Central & local government context for planning bibliography
• Development Plans: (Regional plg. / Structure plg. / LDDs & LDFs / Local plg. / Unitary Dev. Plans (UDPs),
• Green belts (gen.) in the Green Belts etc. bibliography
• Minerals plg. in the Minerals & Waste Planning bibliography
• Plg. aid / Plg. conditions / Plg. consultancy / Plg. implementation / Urban Design in the Effectiveness of Planning etc. bib'y
• N.B. also the RTPI library catalogue on the web - go to http://www.rtpi.org.uk - then to library search

OFL = Ordered for Library - please check University Library catalogue for latest on availability:
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/library/
* indicates more useful and/or up to date references

Association of County Councils (former), 1991, 'Countryside Strategies reviewed', ACC, London.

Centre for Agricultural Strategy, 1992, 'Strategies for the rural economy' (CAS Paper 26), CAS, University of Reading, Reading.

Countryside Commission (merged with the Rural Development Commission on 1 April 1999 to form the Countryside Agency) publications available from Countryside Agency/Commission Postal Sales, PO Box 124, Walgrave, Northampton NN6 9TL, tel. (01604) 781848, 1992, 'Rural strategies; advice from the Countryside Commission, English Nature & the Rural Development Commission,' English Nature, Peterborough.

Countryside Council for Wales, 199?, 'Guidelines for Production of Countryside Strategies and Integrated Action Programmes', CCW, Bangor.

Curry, Nigel, 1992, 'Nature Conservation, Countryside Strategies and Strategic Planning', Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 35 (1), pp79-91.

Hursey, Charlotte & Turner, Phil, 1999, 'Rural Strategy Practice Guidance', Planning, 22.1.99, p17

Macdonald, Roderick & Elson, Martin, 1997, 'Making the most of our rural resources', (rural strategies and rural diversification), Planning 1219, 23.5.97.

Royal Institution of Civil Engineers, 1995, 'Tomorrow's Countryside: a rural strategy', RICS, London.

*Royal Town Planning Institute (author: Philip A. Turner), 2000, 'Integrated Rural Strategies: A Good Practice Guide', sponsored by the Countryside Agency and English Nature with encouragement from the (former) DETR and based on research undertaken with Charlotte Hursey on behalf of the RTPI, RTPI, London. (OFL on 10.4.00)

Rural Development Commission
(former; became part of the Countryside Agency in April 1999):
'Rural Strategies Information Pack', RDC, English Nature and the Countryside Commission, February 1997.
'Guide to preparing Rural Development Strategies', 1994.

Scott, Peter, 1992, 'Rural strategies; a focus for rural action,' The Planner 78 (18), 2.10.92.

The Scottish Office (fomrer), 1997, 'Preparing Rural Development Strategies: Frameworks for Action', The Scottish Office (former), Edinburgh.

Turner, Phil & Hursey, Charlotte, 1999, 'Rural strategy - practice guidance', Planning 1302, 22.1.99.
*Turner, Philip A, '2000, Integrated Rural Strategies: A Good Practice Guide', sponsored by the Countryside Agency and English Nature with encouragement from the DETR and based on research undertaken with Charlotte Hursey on behalf of the Royal Town Planning Institute, RTPI, London, March 2000. (OFL on 10.4.00)

• Index to the Countryside Planning bibliographies
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• Main Planning bibliographies Index