RP30. RURAL SETTLEMENT PLANNING - (A-Z)
(updated: June 27, 2006 )

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

Action for Market Towns, 12 Looms Lane, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, IP33 IHE,
tel. (01284) 756567, fax. (01284) 756567/761816:
'Market Towns: Options for a share in the future', tel. (01284) 756567, 1998. Oversize HT133.A3
'New Life for Smaller Towns: Handbook for Action', 1998, £13.50, ISBN 0 952579 1 1.
*'Benchmarking for small towns', September 1999.
*'Markets - trading towards a better future' (factsheet), January 2000.
'Retail surveys: their use in small towns', April 2000.
'Factsheet: staging events and festivals', November 2000.

Action with Communities in Rural England (ACRE), Somerford Court, Somerford Road, Cirencester,
Gloucestershire, GL7 1TW, tel. (01285) 653477
'English Village Services in the 1990s,' (edited by David Clark & Stephen Woollett), 1990.
(N.B. An article summarising this report is to be found in the Autumn 1990 edition, Vol. 12 (2), of 'Nottinghamshire's Rural Voice', the newsletter of the Notts. Rural Community Council, published by NRCC, Southwell.
'Village Appraisals', 1991.
'Rural Life: Facts and Figures', 1995.
'Equal Treatment for Rural Areas' , April 1997.
'Village Halls in England 1998', 1998.
'Rural Viewpoint', published 6 times a year, ACRE.
'Annual Reports', e.g. Annual Reports for each year published in the following March.

Advantage West Midlands (West Midlands Regional Development Agency), 2000, 'Market Towns Regeneration in the West Midlands', available at http://www.ruralnetworkwm.org.uk

Allinson, John, 2003, 'Counting the counterurbanisers', (continuing metropolitan outmigration in the UK over the 1990s), Town and Country Planning, 72 (2), February, pp58-59

Ambrose, P, 1974, 'The Quiet Revoluation: Social Change in a Sussex Village 19871-1971', Chatto & Windus, London.

Amoako, Ernest, 1997, 'Tracking down the travel bug: Transport and settlement pattern in Stratford upon Avon District', Planning 1245, 21.11.97.

Anderson, C.D & Bell, M.M, 2000, 'The social economy of rural life', (Elsevier Science) Journal of Rural Studies 16 (3), July.

Archbishop of Canterbury's Commission on Rural Areas (ACORA), 1990, 'Faith in the Countryside', Churchman Publishing, £12.95.

Arup Economics and Planning:
'Provision of basic utilities in Rural Areas', Rural Development Commission, 1991.
'Rural Development and Statutory Planning,' Rural Development Commission, Salisbury, Wiltshire, 1993, Oversize HC256.R8

Association of District Councils (former; now part of the Local Government Association), 1988, 'The future for rural communities; the District Council view', ADC, London.

Baber, Peter, 1996, 'A magic formula in danger of losing its sparsity element', (sparsity factor and SSA), Planning Week, 4 (28), 11.7.96.
Baber, Peter, 1996, 'The slow demise of the market town', (on the Hillier Parker 'Shopping Centres of Great Britain' report, 1996), Planning Week, 4 (29), 18.7.96.
Baber, Peter, 1997, 'Resorts braced for a prosperous future', Planning 1219, 23.5.97.

Barnes, L., 1994, 'Reaching Out to Rural Communities: Tools for Developing Rural Work', National Council of Voluntary Organisations (NCVO), London

Baron, S (ed.), 1944, 'Country Towns in the Future England, Report of a TCPA Conference held in 1943', Faber & Faber, London.

Beatty, Christina; Fothergill, Stephen, 2004, 'Economic Change and the Labour Market in Britain's Seaside Towns', Regional Studies 38 (5), July, p459, http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=TEUC0V5WU6A2FD

Bibby, Peter & Shepherd, John, 2001, 'Refocusing national targets for accommodating housing on greenfield sites: Part 2: Bringing in the settlement patterns', Town and Country Planning 70 12), December, pp327-331..

Blackman, David, 1999, 'Ready for action' (interview with Linda Douglas of Action for Market Towns on small town centres, etc.), Planning, 1339, 8.10.99.

Bond, Robert, 1998, 'Rural Councils unite to fight urban spending bias', Surveyor, 4.6.98.

Bourne, Caroline, 2000, 'Providing a national framework for renewing smaller towns' (translating the Main Street Program in the US to the UK), Urban Environment Today, 16.11.00.

Boyle & Halfacree, 1998, 'Migration into rural areas', John Wiley, Chichester, Sussex.

Bradbury, Tony & Lowe, Philip, 1986, 'Locality and rurality,' Geo Books.

Bracey, J.E, 1979, 'English Rural Life', Routledge Kegan Paul, London (first edition, 1959).

Brauner, Steve, 2000, 'A model for market town regeneration' (Oswestry), Regeneration & Renewal, 8.12.00.

British Council of Shopping Centre (BCSC), 1 Queen Anne's Gate, London SW1H 9BT,
tel. (020) 7222 1122:
- website: http://www.bcsc.org.uk
'The Smaller Towns Report: Delivering Retail-Led Renaissance in Towns and Smaller Cities', November 2004, and at http://www.PlanningResource.co.uk

Broadway, M.J., 1999, 'Planning for change in small towns or trying to avoid the slaughterhouse blues', (Elsevier Science) Journal of Rural Studies 16 (1), December.

Buller, Henry, 1991, 'Rural Development: Problems and Practices', Avebury, Aldershot, Hampshire.

Butt, Richard, 1999, 'The Town and Country Planning Association's memorandum of evidence to the House of Commons, Environment, Transpoft and Regional Affairs Committee Inquiry into the forthcoming Rural White Paper', free with an A5 s.a.e. from the TCPA, London SW1..

Cabinet Office, London
- website: http://www.cabinet-office.gov.uk
*(Cabinet Office Performance and Innovation Unit), 'Rural Economies', TSO, tel. (0870) 600 5522, December 1999. Document Division UK/P99/157, at:- http://www.cabinet-office.gov.uk/innovation
'Sharing the nation's prosperity - economic, social and environmental conditions in the countryside/.A report to the Prime Minister by the Cabinet Office, February 2000.

Caffyn, Alison, 2004, 'Market town regeneration; challenges for policy and implementation', Local Economy 19 (1), February, p8, http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com.

Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) -
(former Council for the Protection of Rural England (CPRE) until June 2003)
128 Southwark St, London SE1 0SW,
tel. (020) 7981 2800, fax. (020) 7981 2899, email: info@cpre.org
- website: http://www.cpre.org.uk
'Countryside Character Indicators: Market Town Survey', 2003.
'Market Towns: Losing Their Character?', March 2004.

Carrington, Noel, 1947, 'Life in an English village,' Penguin, Harmondsworth, Middlesex.

Cassidy, Mark; Darlington, John; Hodcroft; Lowe, Helen; Marno, David & Alexander, David, 2003, 'The rise of the farmstead-hamlet - a new rural settlement pattern?', Town and Country Planning, 72 (2), February, pp55-57
Cassidy, Mark & Alexander, David, 2004, 'Key rural services and planning', Town and Country Planning 73 (6), June, pp192-195

Champion, Tony & Watkins, Charles, (eds.), 1991, 'People in the Countryside: Studies of Social Change in Rural Britain', Paul Chapman, London.
Champion, Tony, 1999, 'Outward Migration: a threat to urban development?', Cityscape, ESRC, Swindon, Wiltshire, Autumn.
Champion, Tony, (ed.) 2003, 'New Forms of Urbanization: Beyond the Urban-Rural Dichotomy', Ashgate, Aldershot, Hampshire, http://www.ashgate.com ISBN 0 7546 3588 0

Chapman, Christina, 2000, 'Reviving market town economies' (discussion of the DETR Rural White Papoer and its emphasis on reviving market towns and villages), Urban Environment Today, 14.12.00, p11.

Cherry, G E (ed.), 1976, 'Rural Planning Problems', Leonard Hill, ?

Chisholm, M, 1979, 'Rural Settlement and Land Use: An Essay in Location,' 3rd edition, ?

Civic Trust, 2000, 'Small Town Vitality - The Impact of New Housing', Civic Trust, London, tel. (020) 7930 0914, November.

Clark, David, & Woollett, Stephen, 1990, 'English village services in the 1980s', ACRE, Cirencester, (summarised in Nottinghamshire's Rural Voice, the newsletter of Notts. Rural Community Council, 12 (2), 1990.)
Clark, David, 1990, 'Practical partnerships' (ADC-RCC), ADC, February.
Clark, D, & Woollett, S, 1990, 'English Village Services in the 1980s, ACRE, Cirencester, Gloucestershire.

Clifford, Sue & King, Angela, (eds.), 1993, 'Local Distinctiveness: Place, Particularity and Identity', Common Ground, London.

Cloke, Paul (ed.), 19??, 'Rural land-use planning in developed nations', Unwin Hyman
Cloke, Paul, 1979, 'Key Settlements in Rural Areas', Methuen, London.
Cloke, Paul, 1983, 'An Introduction to Rural Settlement Planning', Methuen, London.
Cloke, P J, & Shaw, D P, 1983, 'Rural Settlement Policies in Structure Plans', Town Planning Review, 54 (3), July.
Cloke, Paul, 1987, 'Rural Planning: Policy into Action?', Paul Chapman Publishing, London.
Cloke, Paul, 1988, 'Policies and plans for rural people: an international perspective', Allen and Unwin, London
Cloke, Paul J & Park, Chris, Chris C., 1986, 'Rural Resource Management', Croom Helm, Beckenham.
Cloke, Paul, 1989, 'Rural Land use planning in developed nations', Unwin Hyman.
Cloke, P.J. & Little, J.K., 1990, 'The Rural State: Limits to Planning in Rural Society', Clarendon Press, Oxford.
Cloke, Paul, 1993, 'On problems and solutions: the reproduction of problems for rural communities in Britain during the 1980s', Journal of Rural Studies 9, pp113-121.
Cloke, Paul; Millbourne, P & Thomas, C, 1994, 'Lifestyles in rural England', Rural Development Commission, Salisbury, Wiltshire.
Cloke, Paul; Lapping, Mark & Phillip, M., 1994, 'Myths and rural culture' Edward Arnold.
Cloke, Paul; Doel, M; Matless, D; Phillips, M & Thrift, N, 1994, 'Writing the Rural: Five Cutlural Geographies', Paul Chapman, London.
Cloke, Paul, 1995, 'Rural England in the 1990s: a review article', Town Planning Review 6 (1), June.
Cloke, Paul, 1998, 'Rural Wales: Community and Marginalisation', University of Wales Press, Cardiff.
Cloke, Paul & Little, Jo, (eds.), 1999, 'Contested Countryside Cultures: Otherness, Marginalisation and Rurality' ,?

Colliers Erdman Lewis, 1999, 'The Midsummer Retail Report', CEL, London, June (discussion of threat to small town centres; c.f. Planning no. 1324, 25.6.99, p8)

Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE)
(replaced the Royal Fine Arts Commission in 2000), London,
tel. (020) 7960 2400, email: enquiries@cabe.org.uk
- website: http://www.cabe.org.uk
(CABE & English Heritage), 'Shifting Sands' (seaside town regeneration projects), July 2003.

Common Ground, 1994, 'Local distinctiveness, ' Common Ground for Rural Action, London.

Community Matters, ?, 'Forgotten Resources: The Role of Community Buildings in Strengthening Local Communities', Community Matters, London.

Council for the Protection of Rural England (CPRE) (former) - became 'Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) in June 2003

Council for the Protection of Rural England (CPRE), London,
tel. (020) 7976 6433 - website: http://www.cpre.org.uk
'Taking stock: why planning is good for the countryside', 1995.
'Transport Corridors - blessing or blind alley?', April 2000 (OFL on 14.4.00)

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:
'Planning for change: development in a green countryside', 1988.
'England's Countryside: the role of the Planning System', Consultation Paper, CCP 496, 1996
'Rural Services: A Framework for Action', Workshop Report by Professor Malcolm Moseley for the Council for the Protection of Rural England & the Countryside Agency', available from CPRE Publications, London, free with s.a.e.

Craze, Richard, 2004, 'Out of Your Townie Mind', White Ladder Press. ISBN 0 9543914 4 6

Cross, D., 1990, 'Counterurbanisation in England and Wales', ?

Cullingworth, J.B, & Nadin, Vincent, 1997, 2001 & 2006, 'Town and Country Planning in the UK,' (, Routledge, London. GP5511.CUL (revised edition, September 2001, and June 2006)

Curry, Nigel, 1981, 'Rural settlement policy and economics', GLOSCAT, LRP number 12, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, July

Darley, Gillian, 1978, 'Villages of Vision', Granada Publishing Ltd.

Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG), London
(took over planning and housing etc. functions from the Offfice of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) in May 2006:
- website: http://www.communities.gov.uk/

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) (June 2001-)
- website: http://www.defra.gov.uk
'Consultation paper on developing QUALITY parish and town councils', November 2001.
'Rural White Paper Review', January 2004, http://www.defra.gov.uk/rural/rwpreview/default.htm
'Social and economic change and diversity in rural England', Januyary 2004, and at http://www.defra.gov.uk/

Department of the Environment (DOE) (former; from June 1997 to June 2001 part of the
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions; DETR):
'The Green Belts,' HMSO, 1989.
Planning Policy Guidance Note 2, 'Green Belts', HMSO, 1995 revised version of 1988 original.
*Planning Policy Guidance Note 7: 'The Countryside - Environmental Quality and Economic and Social Development', TSO, 1997 (first issued in 1988)
'The effectiveness of green belts' (editor: Martin Elson), HMSO, 1993.
DOE (authors: Breheny, Michael & Breheny, Michael, 'Alternative Development Patterns: new settlements', HMSO, 1993, UK/P93/217
'Involving communities in urban and rural regeneration: a guide for practitioners', PIEDA for (former) DOE, 1996.

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR)
- website: http://www.detr.gov.uk
NB: DETR replaced from June 2001 to May 2002 by the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions (DTLR)
‘Involving Communities in Urban and Rural Regeneration: A Guide for Practitioners’, DETR Publications Sales Centre, Rotherham, October 1997. Documents Division UK/P97/150
'The Impact of Large Food Stores on Market Towns and District Centres', TSO, September 1998. (OFL)
'Planning for Sustainable Development: Towards Better Practice', TSO, October 1998. Documents Division: UK/P98/116
'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
'Market Towns: The toolkit', May 2001, http://www.info4local.gov.uk/singleLink.asp?linkId=1127&heading=e%2dmail%20alert

Derounian, James, 1985, 'Village action: a brief guide to self-help', The Planner, November.
Derounian, James, 1994, 'Another country: real life beyond the Rose Cottage', National Council for Voluntary Service (NCVO), London. GP5511.DER
Derounian, James, 1998, 'Effective Working with Rural Communities - Seizing the Opportunities', Packard Publishing. 1 85341 106 X (OFL on 9.6.00)

Donaldsons, ?1999, 'Small Towns Study', for the Historic Burghs Association of Scotland, HBAH,

Donati, Marino, 2003, 'Market towns aim for revival' (Beacon status), Planning 1534, 29.8.03, p16

East Midlands Development Agency (EMDA), Apex Court, City Link, Nottingham NG2 4LA,
tel. (0115) 952 7870:
'The Rural Action Plan, February 2000, and at: http://www.emda.org.uk/rural_action_plan
'Rural Action Plan for the East Midlands', Summer 2000, and at http://www.emda.org.uk/rap
'The East Midlands Market Towns: a template for future prosperity', November 2000.

East Midlands Rural Action Group:
'The Rural Agenda in the East Midlands', East Midlands Rural Action Group c/o Lincolnshire County Council, 1998.
'Framework for Rural Action Consulation', EMRAG c/o Lincs. CC, 1998.
'Rural Action Plan - First Statement', June 1999, available from Peter Stovey, Regional Manager, The Countryside Agency, 18 Market Place, Bingham NG13 8AP, tel. (01949) 876200, fax. (01949) 876222.

Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) (former), 1992, 'Rural Change and Sustainability: A Review of research', ESRC, Swindon, Wiltshire.

ECOVAST (European Council of Villages and Small Towns, 1991, 'A Strategy for Rural Europe', ECOVAST.

Edwards, Bill; Goodwin, Mark & Woods, Micahel, 2003, 'Citizenship, community and participation in small towns: a case study of regeneration partnerships', Chapter 9 in Imrie, Rob & Raco, Mike, (eds.) 2003, 'Urban renaissance? New Labour, community and urban policy', The Policy Press, Bristol. ISBN 1 86134 380 9 (Hb) / 1 86134 381 7 (pb) (HT133.U7).

Ellwood, Sheila, et al., 1998, 'Local Councils Use of Section 137: A Financial Review of Parish and Town Councils in England and their Discretion to Spend under Section 137 of the Local Government Act, 1972', for the DETR, DETR Publications Sales Centre, Rotherham, October.

English Heritage, London:
'The Conversion of Historic Farm-buildings', 1990.
'Historic Environment Review 2000: Power of Place, A Future for the Historic Environment', ?2000.
'Atlas of Settlement Diversity', ?2000/1

English Partnerships, 1997, ‘Working with our partners’, English Partnerships, ?

Entec, 2004, 'The Positive Impact of Business - Putting down roots in market towns', Report for Business in the Community, http://www.bitc.org.uk

Environment Agency, 2001, 'Rural communities', SD4, EA, Bristol.

Errington, Andrew, 1999?, 'New role for market towns', Market Town Research Group, Plymouth University, tel. (01626) 325678

Farthing, Stuart, 2005, 'Study lifts lid on small towns success' (University of the West of England and Roger Tym & Partners study), Planning 1622, 4.6.05, p9
Farthing, S & Carriere, J-P, 2005, 'Chapter 11: Planning for small and Market Towns in rural areas', in Fraser, C & Breuillard, M (eds.), 2005, 'So Near yet so far: A comparison of the Spatial Planning systems in Britain and France', Routledge, London & L'Harmattan, Paris.

Feature, 1995, 'Town plans to sustainable surveys', Rural Focus (RDC magazine), Special Issue on the Rural White Paper, Winter 1995/96.
Feature, 1998, 'Rural Services: Could do better', RDC Rural Focus, Spring .
Feature, 1998, 'Participatory Rural Appraisal', RDC Rural Focus, Spring.
Feature, 2002, 'Urban-Rural relationships - Guest Editors: Stead, Dominic & Davoudi, Simin, Built Environment 28 (4).

Findlay, A; Short D & Stockdale, A, 1999, 'Migration impacts in rural England', Report to the Countryside Agency, Cheltenham.
Findlay, A; Short D & Stockdale, A, 1999, 'Study of the impact of Migration in rural Scotland', Scottish Office Central Research Unit Paper, Edinburgh, £10, - summary only available: Agricultural Policy Coordination and Rural Development Research Findings Group Research Findings no. 4).

Fineberg, Adam & Salter, Miffa, 1997, 'New life in market towns', Planning 1200, 10.1.97.

Ford, Andrew & Dando, Mike, 2000, 'Planning Aid's proactice support for rural communities', Planning 1380, 4.8.00.

Foster, John, 1989, 'Rural planning in the developed countries of the world' (a review of book by Paul Cloke 'Rural Land Use Planning in the Developed Nations'), Town Planning Review, 60 (2).

Fothergill, Steve et al, 2003, 'The Seaside Economy', Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, tel. (0114) 225 3073, June.

Francis, D. & Henderson, P., 1992, 'Working with Rural Communities', Macmillan, London.

Franklin, S, 1971, 'Rural Societies', Macmillan.

Fyson, Anthony, 1999, 'Integration may be key to reaping countryside cash' (discussion of the RSPB 'Working Together' report), Planning, 3.12.99
Fyson, Anthony, 2004, 'The importance of protecting our market towns', (discussion of the CPRE market towns report), Planning 1563, 2.4.04, p10

Garland, Greg, 1995, 'Sustainable Fuel link for new settlements; Planning no, 1101, 13.1.95.

Gilder, I M, 1979, 'Rural Planning Policies: An Economic Appraisal', Progress in Planning, Vol II, Part 3, Pergamon, Oxford.

Gilg, Andrew, 1990, 'Progress in Rural Policy and Planning,' Belhaven Press, London.
Gilg, Andrew, (ed.), 1999, 'Perspectives on British Rural Policy and Planning' (Chapter Six: 'Social and Economic Issues'), Ashgate, Aldershot, Hampshire, ISBN 1 85972 641 9. (GP5515.GIL)

Gilroy, Rose & Shaw, Tim, 2002, 'Market towns, older people and regeneration', Town and Country Planning 71 (9), September, p237.

Gloucestershire County Council, Rural Development Commission, British Petroleum and Municipal Mutual Insurance, ?, 'Village Appraisal package', Countryside and Community Research Unit, Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education, Cheltenham, Middlesex.

Graham Moss and Associates, Leicestershire. County Council and Ernest Cook Trust, 1982, 'Rural Services: Report of the pilot study of statutory provision and accessibility in Leicestershire,' ?

Green, Damian, 1997, 'Cities in the Countryside', Social Market Foundation.

Green, R, & Holliday, J, , 1991, Country Planning: A Time for Action, Town and Country Planning Association, London.
Green, Ray, 1999, 'Compaction and greener cities', (growth in the shires and the potential for a new concept in city and country living), Town and Country Planning 68 (10), October.
Green, Ray, 2001, 'Country towns and the rural growth divide', Town and Country Planning 70 (10), October, pp270-271.
Green, Ray, 2004, 'Rural retreats', Town and Country Planning 73 (6), June, pp199-202

Grove-White, Robin (et al.), 1993, 'Sustainability and the English Countryside,' Report to the Countryside Commission, Centre for Study of Environmental Change, Lancaster University, Lancaster.

Gummer, John, 1998, 'Keep villages alive', Planning 1261, 27.3.98.
Gummer, John, 1999, 'Old towns in a modern age' (design quality of market towns), Planning 1316, 30.4.99
Gummer, John, 1999, 'The viability of village life', Planning 1328, 23.7.99.

Guy, Cliff, 2001 'Trading Places: Picking winners' (in the Rural White Papers' Market Towns Programme), Town and Country Planning 70 (5), May, p132-133.

Hale, Rita, 1999, 'Cash and the Countryside', Rural Services Partnership and Rita Hales Associates, London, July.

Hardy, Dennis, 2003, 'Hardy Country: Poundbury - planning by royal appointment', Town and Country Planning 72 (5), June, pp155-157
Hardy, Dennis & Ward, Colin, 2004, 'Arcadia for All: The Legacy of a Makeshift Landscape', Five Leaves Publications, Nottingham, http://www.fiveleaves.co.uk ISBN 0907123 910
Hardy, Dennis, 2006, 'Poundbury : the Town that Charles Built', Town and Country Planning Association, London.

Harper, Sarah, 1993, 'The Greening of Rural Policy,' (Part 2: Settlement and Land Use Planning), Belhaven Press, London. (OFL)

Healey, Patsy, 2002, 'Urban-Rural relationships: Spatial Strategies and Territorial Developments', in Feature, 2002, 'Urban-Rural relationships - Guest Editors: Stead, Dominic & Davoudi, Simin, Built Environment 28 (4).

Hedges, A, 1999, 'Living in the countryside: the needs and aspirations of rural populations', Report to the Countryside Agency - Alen Hedges, Leighton Buzzard.

*Hemming, Stephen, 1999, 'Planning Aid reaches out to rural areas', (Rural Planning Outreach Projects), Planning 1311, 26.3.99.

Higgs, G. & White, S.D, 1997, 'Changes to Service Provision in Rural Areas', Journal of Rural Services 13 (4).

Hodge, Ian, et al., 1996, 'Redefining the Rural Development Areas: the limits of spatial targetting', Regional Studies, 30 (2), April.

Hodgson, Tony, 2000, 'Country People: An Endangered Species', SMH Books, £14.95.

Hoggart, Keith, 1987, 'Rural development.: a geographical perspective,' Croom Helm.
Hoggart, Keith, 1997, 'Home occupancy and rural housing problems in England', Town Planning Review 68 (4), October.

Holliday, John, 1994, 'Rural revival looking to the global village'm Planning, 1062, 1.1.94.

House of Commons; OPDM-Housing, Planning, Local Government and the Regions Committee, 2006, 'Coastal towns: volume II: written evidence', Paper number: HC 1023-II, ISBN: 0-215-02841-4, TSO, April 2006,
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmselect/cmodpm/1023/1023ii.pdf

House of Lords Select Committee on the European Communities, 1990, 'The Future of rural society', 24th Report, Vol. 1, HMSO, (in Library under HL Papers 80, I-III 1989-90 Session).

Hubbard, G, 2005, ''Inappropriate and incongruous': opposition to asylum centres in the English countryside', Journal of Rural Stuvies 21 (1), January, pp3-17,
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=GatewayURL&_origin=CONTENTS&_method=citationSearch&_piikey=S074301670400035X&_version=1&md5=0f49835df13e32446efe12a742973539

Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), 1 Great George St., London SW1P 3AA,
London, tel. (020) 7665 2019
'A vision for rural public transport', 1996.
'(ICE & the Countryside Agency), 'Rural Routes and Networks', December 2002, available from John Maddox, tel. (020) 7665 2018, £10 (OFL on 18.12.02)

James, Peter & Selwyn, Jonathan, 1998, 'The Pros and Cons of a Wired World', (Forum for the Future) Green Futures, September/October.

Johnson, Tony, 1998, 'Rural Services: what are we waiting for?', RDC Rural Focus, Spring.

Jones, G E, 1973, 'Rural Life: Patterns and Processes', Longman, Harlow, Essex.

Jones, Glynn & Perkins, Bob, 2003, 'Rural poor make way for urban rich', Regeneration & Renewal, 23.5.03, pp18-19

Jones, Peter; Comfort, Daphne & Hillier, David, 2002, 'Market towns and retail challenges' (the Countryside Agency's Market Towns Initiative), Town and Country Planning 71 (9), September, pp234-236.
Jones, Peter, 2003, 'Liveability - Slow Cities and Smart Growth', (applicability to the UK of the 'Slow Cities' and 'Smart Growth' concepts to development and regeneration), Town and Country Planning 72 (11), December, pp355-358

Joseph Rowntree Foundation, York -
JRF publications available from York Publishing Services, 64 Hallfield Road, Layerthorpe, York Y03 7XQ
- website: http://www.jrf.org.uk
'Work and family life in rural communities', 2001, ISBN 1842630547

King, D.G, 2000, 'Projected household numbers for rural districts of England 1996-2016', Report to the Countryside Agency, Chelmsford by the Household Projection Service, Anglia University, Cambridge.

Kochan, Ben, 1999, 'Reshaping Market Forces' (addressing deprivation in market towns), Urban Environment Today, 14.10.99.

KPMG, 2000, 'Market towns regeneration in the West Midlands', KPMG for Advantage West Midlands and the Countryside Agency, http://www.ruralnetworkwm.org.uk/specsec/market/index.htm

Kropf, Karl, 2002, 'Small historic towns: the key role played by local communities', Planning 1494, 8.11.01, p36.

Land Use Consultants for the Countryside Agency, 2004, 'The Role of Rural Settlements as Service Centres', Land Use Consultants for the Countryside Agency, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.

Lewis, G, 1998, 'Rural migration and demographic change', in B. Ibery (ed), 1998, 'The Geography of Rural Change', Longman, Harlow, Essex.

Liberal Democrat Publications, 1991, 'A Thriving Countryside', LD Publications, 8 Fordington Green, Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 1GB.

Lievesley, K et al., 1992, '1991 Survey of Rural Services,' Rural Development Commission (former; part of the Countryside Agency since April 1999), ?

Lipman, Caron, 1999, ;Small town support' (nechmarks to monitor the performance of small towns), Planning 1339, 8.10.99.

Littlewood, M., 1998, 'The Forest Village', leaflet available from Troutwells, Higher Hayle, Roadwater, Watcher,Somerset, TA23 ORN.

Local Government Association (LGA), London, tel. (020) 8867 3287,
- website: http://www.lga.gov.uk
'Achieving Rural Revival', February 2003.

Local Government Management Board (LGMB) (became the Improvement and Development Agency in April 1999), 1994, 'Sustainability in Rural Areas', Local Agenda 21 Guide no. 7, LGMB, Luton.

Mauthner, Natsasha; McKee, Lorna & Strell, Monika, 2001, 'Work and Family LIfe in Rural Communities', York Publishing Services, tel. (01904) 431213, October

Margolis, Adrienne, 1999, 'Making the Sun Rise on Seaside Towns', Urban Environment Today, 7.1.99.

Martin & Voorhees Associates, 1980, 'Review of Rural Settlement Policies 1945-80', Martin and Voorhees Associates, London for the DOE (Department of the Environment; former).

MacGillivray, Alex, 1998, 'What does around buys a round' (indicators of village life), Green Futures, March/April.

Minay, Chris, et. al., 1995, 'A Directory of Projects' (Reviving Small Communities.' School of Planning, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford.

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food (MAFF) & Department of the Environment (DOE), 1995, 'Rural White Paper', HMSO.

Mitchell, C.J.A, 2004, 'Making sense of counterurbanization', Journal of Rural Studies, 20 (1), pp15-34, :
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=GatewayURL&_origin=CONTENTS&_method=citationSearch&_piikey=S0743016703000317&_version=1&md5=f28229e9f0c28e3efbfa784bcb7d3273
Morphet, Janice, 1998, 'Rural Woes' (review of book by Paul Cloke et al., 'Rural Wales: Community and Marginalisation', Town and Country Planning 67 (5), June..

Moseley, M J, 1979, 'Accessibility: The Rural Challenge', Methuen, London.
Moseley, Malcolm, 1996, 'Parish appraisals - do they lead to action?,' (RDC; former Rural Development Commission), Rural Focus, Summer.
Moseley, Malcolm, 1996, 'Parish appraisals - A Spur to Local Action?,' Town Planning Review, July.
Moseley, Malcolm, 1999, 'Rural Services: A Framework for Action', Workshop Report for the (former) Council for the Protection of Rural England and the Countryside Agency', available from CPRE Publications, London, free with s.a.e.

National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO), London:
'Towards a Rural Strategy', 1980.
'A Rural Strategy', London, 1981.
'Cutting the Cost', 1990.
'Another Country: Real Life Beyond Rose Cottage', (ed.: James Derounian), 1994.

National Federation of Womens' Insitutes (NFWI), 104 New King's Road, London SW6 4LY,
tel. (020) 7371 9300, fax. (020) 7736 3652, email: hq@nfwi.org.uk :
'Our Village', 1950.
'Your Villages', 1956.
*'The Changing Village: The NFWI's 1999 Survey into the state of rural services', July 1999. Oversize Pamphlet HT431.C4

New Economics Foundation (NEF) 1st Floor, Vine Court,
112-116 Whitechapel Road, London E1 1JE, London, tel. (020) 7407 7447
- website: http://www.neweconomics.org
'Clone Town Britain', August 2004, http://www.neweconomics.org

New, Josephine, 1987, 'Meeting womens' needs outside the towns', Town and Country Planning 50 (10), October.

Newby, Howard, 1985, 'Green and Pleasant Land?: Social Change in Rural England', Wildwood House, 2nd edition.
Newby, Howard, 1991, 'The Future of Rural Society: strategic planning or muddling through,' Dartington Lecture, Economic and Social Research Council, Swindon, SN2 1UJ.

Northern Informatics, 1997, 'Avoiding Exclusion: The Challenge of Shaping the Information Society in the Rural North', Northern Informatics, tel. (0191) 949 6577, December.

Nottinghamshire Rural Community Council, Annual Reports, NRCC, Newstead, Nottinghamshire.

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM), London (May 2002-May 2006)
- website: http://www.odpm.gov.uk
'Urban and Rural Area Definitions: A user guide', March 2003, http://www.info4local.gov.uk/searchreport.asp?id=14401&heading=e-mail+alert
Planning Policy Statement Seven: Sustainable development in rural areas', August 2004,
http://www.info4local.gov.uk/searchreport.asp?id=20998&heading=e-mail+alert

Owen, Stephen, 1994, 'Fresh perspectives for village planning', Town and Country Planning, 63 (5), May, pp132-133.
Owen, Stephen, 1995, 'Rural rethink' (village design), Planning Week, 3 (10), 16.3.95.
Owen, Stephen, 1995, 'Rural settlement design', Urban Design Quarterly, no. 54, April.
Owen, Stephen, 1995, 'Local distinctiveness in villages. Overcoming some impediments to clear thinking about village planning',
Town Planning Review 66 (2), pp143-162.
Owen, Stephen, 1995, 'Local distinctiveness in villages: overcoming some impediments to clear thinking about village planning', Landscape Design, July/August.
Owen, Stephen, 1998, 'The role of village design statements in fostering a locally responsive approach to village planning and design in the UK', Journal of Urban Design, October, pp359-380.
Owen, Stephen, 2003, 'The Appearance of English Hill Towns in the Landscape', Journal of Urban Design 8 (1), February, p3,
http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/link.asp?id=UNN18VX0DL2YLUJY
Owen, Stephen, 2005, 'English Hill Towns: Some Further Steps in Appreciating their Identity in the Wider Landscape', Landscape Research, 30 (1), January, p57, http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=HKCF7E0EU32KYCXR

Owens, Susan, 1984, 'Energy and spatial structure: a rural example', Environment and Planning A, 16, pp1319-1337.

Pacione, Michael, (ed), 1983, 'Progress in Rural Geography, Croom Helm, London.
Pacione, Michael, 1984, 'Rural Geography,' Paul Chapman Publishing, London.

Pahl, R, 1965, 'Urbs in Rure', Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London.

Paterson, Elaine, 2005, 'What makes successful design in historic market towns?', Paper presented to the Town and Country Planning Summer School, University of Edinburgh, September, http://www.planningsummerschool.org/papers/year2005/
Paterson, Elaine, 2006, 'Quality New Development in English Market Towns: Case Studies Examining the Role of Town Planning', Journal of Urban Design 11 (2), June, p225, http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=J2H6640KX682047P

Pattison, Gary, 2004, 'Planning for decline: the 'D'-village policy of County Durham, UK', Planning Perspectives, 19 (3), July, p311,
http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=J8AWLHUG8UJVGJ51

Pauncefoot, Zandra, 1993, Communities at risk in Wiltshire', Wiltshire Community Foundation, ?Salisbury, Wiltshire.

Peak District Rural Deprivation Forum, Hope, Derbyshire:
‘An Alternative Rural White Paper’, A report by the Peak District Rural Deprivation Forum, October 1996. East Midlands Local Collection Oversize pamphlet Der1.L60.PEA
‘Health, Social and Community Care in the Peak National Park’. 1997?

Phillips, Adrian, 1992, 'Great Dumble 2002', (rural life 10 years hence), Town and Country Planning 61 (9), September.

Phillips, David, 1990, 'An essay on Rural Planning', Phillips & Company.
Phillips, David & Williams, Alan, 1984, 'Rural Britain; a social geography', Blackwell, Oxford.

PIEDA, 1995, 'Involving Communities in Urban and Rural Regeneration: A Guide for Practitioners', DOE (Department of the Environment; former).

Porritt, J, 1987, 'The green approach to planning - in defence of weeds', Paper to Town and Country Planning Summer School, Nottingham University, 1986, 'The Planner', February.
Porritt, J, 1990, 'Planning for a greener future,' Report of Proceedings, 1990 TCPSS (University of Swansea), The Planner 76 (49), 14.12.90.

Powe, Neil & Whitby, Martin, 1994, 'Economies of settlement size in rural settlement planning', Town Planning Review 65 (4), October.
Powe, Neil & Shaw, Tim, 2003, 'Market towns: investigating the service role through visitor surveys', Planning Practice & Research 18 (1), February, p37,
http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/link.asp?id=9929K7PDBAL72X24

Powe, Neil & Shaw, Tim, 2004, 'Exploring the current and future role of market towns in servicing their hinterlands: a case study of Alnwick in the North East of
England', Journal of Rural Studies, ISSN: 0743-0167, 20 (4), October, pp405-418,
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=GatewayURL&_origin=CONTENTS&_method=citationSearch&_piikey=S0743016704000282&_version=1&md5=5ddb53aa5be4fc458b9d3adae8ab7c10
Roberts, Brian K., 1987, 'The making of the English village', (1st edtion), Longman Scientific and Technical Publications.

Roberts, Deborah, 2003, 'Sources of Structural Change in Peripheral Rural Areas: The Case of the Western Isles, 1988/89 to 1997', Regional Studies, p 61, http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/link.asp?id=99FBL9K0AEMFJ0XX

Rogers, A., 1993, 'English Rural Communities: an assessment and prospect for the 1990s', (former) Rural Development Commission (RDC), Salisbury, Wiltshire.
Rogers, A., 1997, 'Volunteers, Self-help and Rural Community Development: Some Current Approaches', Journal of Rural Studies 3 (4)..
Roger, Alan, 1999, 'The most revolutionary measures: A History of the Rural Development Commission 1909-1999', Countryside Agency Postal Sales, Wetherby, Yorkshire.

Rogers, Maureen, 2005, 'Social sustainability and the art of engagement--the small towns: big picture experience', Local Environment, 10 (2), April, p109,
http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=HYBTMM2X778LLHNT

Rouse, Jon, 2000, 'A seaside town or a town by the sea?' (Cleethoropes, Lincolnshire), Planning 1381, 11.8.00.

Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, 1991, 'A Place to Live in the Rural Community', RICS, London SW1.

Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), 1999, 'Working together: Communities, Conservation and Rural Economies', £10, RSPB Policy Research, Sandy, Bedfordshire, tel. (01767) 680551.

Royal Town Planning Institute, 41 Botolph Lane, London EC3R 8DL,
tel. (020) 7929 9494, fax. (020) 7929 9490, email: online@rtpi.org.uk
- website: http://www.rtpi.org.uk
'The Countryside: A Rural Strategy', Repoort by the RTPI, Planning Officers' Society and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors', available from the RICS Policy Unit, London, April 1999. (OFL on 8.6.99)
RTPI Study Group, 'Challenge of change,' (report of study group chaired by R. Green), RTPI, 1986.
RTPI, 'Rural Planning in the 1990s,' RTPI, London W1, 1993.

RTPI (North West England and North Wales Branches),1994, 'Partnership Planning in Rural Areas', available from Beverly Watson, Environment Institute, Bolton Road, Swinton, Manchester, M27 2UX.

Rural Action for the Environment, 1994, 'Improving the Environment: A Guide for Town and Country Planning', ?

Rural Development Commission (RDC); merged with the Countryside Commission in April 1999 as the
Countryside Agency; RDC publications now available from Countryside Agency Postal Sales, Wetherby:
RDC 1990-95:
'Help for rural communities', RDG1, free.
'Survey of Rural Services,' RDC, 1992.
'Rural Sustainable Development', (P. Lowe & Murdoch, J), 1992.
'Strategy Review Topic Papers 1 to 5', 1993.
'The Economy and Rural England' (by PA Cambridge Economic Consultants), 1992.
'Lifestyles in Rural England' (Research Report 18, by Cloke, P, Milbourne, P & Thomas, C)), 1994. ISBN 1 869964 40 3
'English Rural Communities: an assessment and prospects for the 1990s,' (by A. Rogers), 1994?
'Rural Development Strategy for the 1990s', 1994.
'The future of the Rural Development Plan process', 1994.
'Village Services Survey: Village Life Today', RDC Rural Focus, Autumn 1994.
'Rural Services: challenges and opportunities', RDP5, 1994. (free)
'Rural Regeneration and Village Services', RDC Rural Focus Winter 1994/95.
'Rural Sustainable Development', (by Philip Lowe & Jonathan Murdoch), Strategy Review, Topic Paper 1, 1995.
'Rural Development and Statutory Planning', 1995.
'1994 Survey of Rural Services,' 1995.
'Village Shops Mean Business,' 1995.
'Planning for People and Prosperity',1995.
RDC 1996-99:
'The Impact of Tourism on Rural Settlements' (Research Report 21 by Segal Quince Wickstead), RDR21, 1996. ISBN 1 869964 46 2
'Developing rural childcare; a good practice guide', 1996.
'Fair shares for rural areas? An assessment of public resource allocation systems', 1996.
'Trends in Rural Services and Social housing', 1996. Oversize GP5511.ENV
'Fair shares for rural areas? An Assessment of public resource allocation systems' (Research Report 22), RDR22, 1996. ISBN 1 869964 49 7
'Disadvantage in Rural Areas', 1997.
'Local authority services in rural England', RD17, 1997. ISBN 1 869964 61 6
*'Survey of Rural Services 1997', RD18, 1998 ISBN 1 869964 62 4 (OFL)
'Young People in the Countryside: Making Things Happen - A Good Practice Guide', 1998. Oversize HQ799.G7.Y6.
'Disadvantage in rural areas' (Research Report 29), RDR29, 1997. ISBN 1 869964 55 1
(RDC & The Housing Corporation), 'Rural Settlement Gazetteer', RDC & The Housing Corporation, London, 1997.
'The Joint Provision of services' (Research Report 34), RDR34, 1998. ISBN 1 869964 63 2
'Rural Disadvantage: Understanding the Processes' (Research Report 35), RDR35, 1998. ISBN 1 869964 65 9
'Developing Indicators of Rural Disadvantage' (Research Report 36), RDR36, 1998. ISBN 1 869964 667
'Rural Development and Land Use Planning Policies', December 1998. Oversize GP5511.ELS
RDC, Annual Reports, RDC, Salisbury, Wiltshire.

Rural Voice:
'Agriculture and the rural economy', 1986.
'A rural strategy', October 1987.
'Planning as a creative force', Rural Voice c/o ACRE, 1990.

SAVE Britain's Heritage, 1988, 'A future for rural farm buildings', SAVE, London.

Seeley, J, 1984, 'The politics of public facility planning in the countryside', Sweet and Maxwell, London.

Segal Quince Wickstead Ltd., 1996, 'The impact of tourism on rural settlements', Rural Development Commission (former), Salisbury, Wiltshire. Oversize GP5511.IMP

Sharp, Thomas, 1946, 'The Anatomy of the Village', Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex.
Sharp, Thomas, 1953, 'The English village: design in Town and Country', Ministry of Housing and Local Government (later: DOE, and, from 1997-2001, the DETR), HMSO, London.

Shaw, J M (ed), 1979, 'Rural Deprivation and Planning', Geo Abstracts Ltd.

Sheffield Hallam University, 2003, 'The Seaside Economy', available from Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, tel. (0114) 225 3073, November.

Short, Brian (ed.), 1992, 'The English Rural Community: Image and Analysis,' Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Shorten, James, 2003, 'Working together in England's market towns', Town and Country Planning 72 (7), August, pp208-210
Shorten, James, 2003, 'Could do better...(draft PPS7's treatment of the policy areas of settlement strategy and the rural economy), Town and Country Planning 72 (11), p340
Shorten, James, 2004, 'The Role of Rural Settlements as Service Centres', The Countryside Agency, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. (forthcoming)
Shorten, James, 2004, 'New light on country life' (avoiding simplistic assumptions about rural settlement hierarchy), Town and Country Planning 73 (6), June, pp186-191

Shucksmith, Mark; Chapman, Polly; Clark, Gill; Black, Stuart & Conway, Ed, 1996, 'Rural Scotland Today: The Best of Both Worlds?', Avebury, Aldershot, Hampshire, ISBN 1 85972 367 5.

Smailes, P.J.; Argent, N & Griffin, T.L.C, 2002, 'Rural population density: its impact on social and demographic aspects of rural communities', (Elsevier Science) Journal of Rural Studies 18 (4), October, pp385-404,
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=GatewayURL&_origin=CONTENTS&_method=citationSearch&_piikey=S0743016702000335&_version=1&md5=e4400bfaca28cea44c295125404d081f
Smart, G & Wright, Susan, 1982, 'Decision making in rural areas,' Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning, University of London.

Smigielski, Konrad, 1978, 'A Self-supporting Co-operative Village,' Stanford Hall Project, Building and Social Housing Trust, Coalville, Leicestershire.

Smith, A., & Schlesinger, A, 1993, 'A Model for Village and Community Renewal', Town and Country Planning 62 (7), July.

Smulian, Mark, 2003, 'A potential wave of recovery' (Sheffield Hallam University report on the regeneration of seaside towns), Planning 1544, 7.11.03, p14-15

South East Regional Research Laboratory (SERRL), 2000, 'Spatial analysis of rural settlements and services', Report to the Countryside Agency, SERRL, Birkbeck College, London.

Suffolk ACRE, 1991, 'Integration of Newcomers', Suffolk ACRE.

Symes, Claire, 2001, 'Striking a balance' (parking and visitor appeal in small rural towns; Bourton-on-the Wolds), Surveyor, 4.10,01, pp14-17.

The Countryside Agency (formed in April 1999 from the merger of the Countryside Commission with the
Rural Development Commission) Publications: Postal Sales, PO Box 125, Wetherby, West Yorkshire LS23 7EP,
tel. (0870) 120 6466, fax. (0870) 120 6467, Minicom (0870) 120 7405
- online sales via: http://www.countryside.gov.uk
TCA 2000:
'State of the Countryside 2000', April 2000 (OFL on 28.4.00)
'England's Market Towns: meeting the challenge of the 21st century', CA26, 2000 (free).
'Rural services and social housing 1998-1999', CA59 (free).
'Planning Tomorrow's Countryside', CA60, September 2000 (OFL on 22.9.00)
'Living in the Countryside', November 2000 (OFL on 6.11.00)
TCA 2001:
'Towards Tomorrow's Countryside: A Strategy for the Countryside Agency', January 2001 and available in the References section of the Regeneration and Renewal website: http://www.regenerationmagazine.com
'Market towns toolkit: securing a stronger future', CA 27, 2001, free.
'Revitalise your village: equipping communities to shape their future', CA 42, 2001, free.
'People make the difference: A good practice guide for involving residents in rural regeneratiion', CAX 43., 2001, free.
'Commuting patterns in rural areas', Working Paper CAX 58, 2001.
'Review of state of the countryside indicators', Working Paper CAX 60, 2001
'Service provision in rural areas', Working Paper CAX 61, 2001
'Moving Mountains: improving access to services for people in dispersed rural communities', Working Paper, CAX 57
'Are villages sustainable?', (report for the Countryside Agency by the Centre for Environment and Planning, University of the West of England), CAX 109,, ?2003, http://www.countryside.gov.uk/publications/publication.asp/PublicationID=575
'Trains for Market Towns: Making the links with regeneration, sustainability and sscial inclusion', TCA Yorkshire & Humberside Regional Office, 2001
TCA 2002:
'Market Towns Healthcheck Handbook', 2002.
TCA 2003:
'Stimulating Entrepreneurial Activity in Market Towns and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty', January 2003,
http://www.info4local.gov.uk/searchreport.asp?id=13785&heading=e-mail+alert
'Quality of Life in Tomorrow's Countryside: Implementing the Countryside Agency's strategy', March 2003,
http://www.info4local.gov.uk/searchreport.asp?id=14473&heading=e-mail+alert
'Parish Plans: Guidance for town and parish councils', March 2003, http://www.info4local.gov.uk/searchreport.asp?id=14607&heading=e-mail+alert
'Town Design Statements: why and how to produce them - good practice advice', CA134, 2003.
'Broadband in Rural Areas: Best Practice Study', CA148, 2003.
TCA 2004:
'Three Market Town Healthcheck Stories', May 2004, http://www.info4local.gov.uk/searchreport.asp?id=19867&heading=e-mail+alert
'Beacon Towns: Signalling a brighter future for market towns', 2004, http://www.info4local.gov.uk/searchreport.asp?id=19993&heading=e-mail+alert
'Putting Down Roots in Market Towns: The positive impact of business', May 2004, http://www.info4local.gov.uk/searchreport.asp?id=19994&heading=e-mail+alert
'Planning for Vital Communities: Good practice in linking parish plans, market town plans and community plans', July 2004, http://www.info4local.gov.uk/searchreport.asp?id=20776&heading=e-mail+alert
'Ageing and the Countryside Conference Report', August 2004, http://www.info4local.gov.uk/searchreport.asp?id=21279&heading=e-mail+alert
'Assessment of the Market Town Initiative: Summary', September 2004, http://www.info4local.gov.uk/searchreport.asp?id=21596&heading=e-mail+alert
Planning for Vital Communities', CA 173, 2004.
'Rural Services Standard: Third Progress Report 2003/04', CA 179, 2004.
'The role of rural settlements as service centres', CRN 82, 2004.
'A guide to finding funding for Rural Transport Partnership Projects', CAX 149F, 2004.

The Countryside Agency Research Notes series, available from
TCA Postal Sales, Two-Ten Communications, Ltd,
PO Box 125, Wetherby, Yorkshire, LS23 7EP,
tel. (0870) 120 6466, fax. (0870) 120 6467, minicom (0870) 120 7405,
email: countryside@twoten.press.net
- website http://www.twoten.press.net
- versions can be found on the TCA website: http://www.countryside.gov.uk
CRN1: 'Communicating with the public: Monitoring Report', April 1999.
CRN2: 'Design Initiatives in the countryside', CRN2, April 1999.
CRN3: 'Locally Distinctive Hedgerows', April 2000 (free).
CRN4: 'In-Migration - Impacts of Migration into Rural England', 2000 (free)
CRN5: 'Integrating the Environment into the CAP', 2000.
CRN6: 'Evaluation of a Health Walks Scheme - Led Walks in the Thames Valley', 2000 (free)
CRN7: 'Mapping access land - an emerging approach', April 2000 (free).
CRN8: 'Public Expenditure in Rural Areas', February 2001 (free).
CRN9: 'Millennium Greens', February 2001 (free).
CRN29: Market Towns: characteristics and vulnerability', 2002, free.
CRN30. 'Increasing community benefits from rural tourism', 2002, free.
CRN33. 'Capacity Building in Market Town Partnerships', May 2001 (free).
CRN37. 'Farmers' markets in the south-east of England: their economic, environmental and social performance', August 2001 (free).
CRN44. 'The Market Towns Healthcheck: lessons from the pilot studies', 2002, free
CRN45. 'Market Towns regeneration in the West Midlands', 2002, free.
CRN46 'Urban/Rural Interdependency', 2002, free.
CRN56, 'Town Design Statements: an evaluation of pilot projects', January 2003.
CRN60, 'Market towns monitoring and evaluation', March 2003.
CRN64. 'Assessing good practice for the achievement of Integrated Rural Development (IRD) projects within local communities', July 2003.
CRN65. 'Integrated Rural Development', July 2003.
CRN66. 'Integrated Rural Development and European Programmes', July 2003
CRN68. 'Rural proofing by local authorities: a feasibility study', 2003, free.
CRN73. 'Setting up One Stop Shops: A summary of the good practice handbook on linking services', September 2003
CRN 77:Three market town healthcheck stories', 2004, http://www.countryside.gov.uk/Publications/articles/Publication_tcm2-18751.asp

The Housing Corporation, publications available from HC Publications Unit, 149 Tottenham Court Road,
London W1P OBN, tel. (020) 7393 2000/2228
- website: http://www.housingcorp.gov.uk :
'Housing in Rural England', 1995.
'Rural settlement gazetter', Research Source 26, 1998.
'Rural Settlement Gazetteer', September 2005.

The Rural Group of Labour MPs - publications available from Cathie Hewitt, Room 517a, 7 Millbank,
London SW1P 3JA, tel. (020) 7664 3131:
'Equity is the Issue - Delivering to Rural Communities - The Case for Fairer Local Government Funding', November 1998.
'Rural Audit - A Health Check on Rural Britain', June 1999.
'Serving Rural Communities - A Guide to the Best Practice of English Local Authorities', February 2000.
'A Manifesto for Rural Britain', April 2000. ISBN 0 9536094 1 3

The Scottish Executive, Edinburgh:
- website at http://www.scotland.gov.uk
'Housing issues in rural Scotland', 2001, and http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library3/housing/rpfc_report.pdf
'Monitoring and evaluation of the Highland Project', 2001, and at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library3/housing/rpfc_comment.pdf
'People, Communities and Living. Implementing Services in Rural Scotland: A Progress Report', January 2003, http://www.scotland.gov.uk/

The Scottish Office, Edinburgh:
'National Planning Policy Guidance: Rural Development, 1998; available on the SO website at http://www.scotland.gov.uk
'Preparing local rural development strategies: Framework for action', Good Practice in Rural Development, TSO, Edinburgh, January 1998.
The Scottish Office, Edinburgh (former): Scottish Office / The Scottish Executive
Development Department Planning Advice Notes:
PAN 52: Planning and Small Towns, 1997.

Thomas, J, Colin J & Bromley, Rosmary D.F, 2002, 'The Changing Relationship between Small Towns Centres and Out of town Retailing: Town Revival in South Wales', Urban Studies (Taylor & Francis) 39 (4), April, pp791-818

*Thomas, K, 1997, 'Development Control: Principles and Practice', UCL Press, London ISBN 1 85728 626 X (Hb) / 1 85728 627 8 (pb). (GP5511.THO)

Thorburn, Andrew, 1971, 'Planning villages', Estates Gazette Press.

Tomalin, Christina, 1998, 'Trading Places: Loyalty to Leominster', Town and Country Planning 67 (6), July.

Tompsett, Richard, 1995, 'Living off the land? (review of RDC 'Planning for People and Prosperity' Report), Planning Week 3 (36), 7.9.95.

Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA), 17 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AS,
tel. (020) 7930 8903, fax. (020) 7930 3280:
'The People and the Land', Town and Country Planning, 1990.
'Policies and principles for the Rural White Paper', Town and Country Planning 68 (11), November 1999.
'The Town and Country Planning Association's memorandum of evidence to the House of Commons, Environment, Transpoft and Regional Affairs Committee Inquiry into the forthcoming Rural White Paper', prepared by Richard Butt, free with an A5 s.a.e. from the TCPA, London SW1, 1999.

Trades Union Congress, 2004, 'Propping up Rural and Small Town Britain: Migrant Workers from the New Europe', TUC, London, http://www.tuc.org.uk

Tulloch, Robert, 1994, 'The Planning Implications of Rural Development,' Report of Proceedings, Town and Country Planning Summer School, University of Lancaster, September 1993, RTPI, London.

University of Newcastle, 2004, 'Exploring the Current and Future Role of Market Towns in Servicing Their Hinterlands', available from University of Newcastle, tel. (0191) 222 7850.

URBED, 1998, 'New Life for Smaller Towns: A Handbook for Action', available for £13.50 from Action for Market Towns, 12 Loom Lane, Bury St. Edmunds IP33 1HE. ISBN 0 952579111. (Oversize GP5511.URB)

Van der Weyer, Robert, 1986, 'Wickwyn - a vision for the future', SPCK, London.

Walsh, Bernadine, 1997, 'Can Market Towns Fight Back?', Urban Environment Today, 12 June, pp10-11.

Warburton, Diane, 1998, 'Participatory Action in the Countryside: A literature review', The Countryside Agency Publications, Wetherby.

Ward, Colin, 1994, 'People and Ideas: Preserving the shires for the affluent', Town and Country Planning, 63 (9), September.
Ward, Colin, 1996, 'People and ideas: Morris and the rural revolution,' Town and Country Planning, 65 (6), June.
Ward, Colin, 1997, 'People and ideas: Parish pump politics,' Town and Country Planning, 66 (2), February.
Ward, Colin, 2002, 'Reviving rural community self-help', Town and Country Planning 71 (9), September, pp238-240.

Ward, Stephen, 2005, 'Consortium Developments Ltd and the failure of 'new country towns' in Mrs Thatcher's Britain', Planning Perspectives 20 (3), July,
p329, http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=M734V15636360362

Waterman, Peter, 1997, 'More people for living communities', Town and Country Planning 66 (7), June.

Welsh Assembly Government, 2005, 'Dynamic Smaller Towns: Critical Success Factors', http://www.wales.gov.uk/subiresearch/content/eru/projects/towns-final-e.pdf

Whitby, W C & Willis, K G, 1979, 'Rural Resource Development: an Economic Approach', Methuen, London.

Williams, N; Shucksmith, M; Edmond, H & Gemmell, A, 1998, 'Scottish Rural Life Update: A Revised Socio-Economic Profile of Rural Scotland' (former) Scottish Office Central Research Unit / TSO, Edinburgh.

Woodruffe, B J, 1976, 'Rural Settlement Policies and Plans', Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF-UK), 1997, 'Working in Parishes', WWF-UK, Godalming, Surrey. Oversize JS3275.W6