RP38. RURAL SUSTAINABILITY
(including Low Impact Living)
(updated: June 27, 2006 )

OFL= Ordered for Library - please check University Library catalogue for latest on availability:
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* indicates more up to date and/or useful references

Alexander, David, 2003, 'Seeking sustainable future' (draft PPS7), Planning 1540, 10.10.03, p21
Alexander, David, 2004, 'Criteria-based planning policies - the way forward for PPS7', Town and Country Planning 73 (9), September, pp247-249

Allanson, P., 1995, 'Sustainability and the rural economy', Environment and Planning 27 (11), November.

Bentley, John, 2003, 'Milking the rural cash cows' (the sustainability of the conversion of rural buildings for business), Planning 1537, 19.9.03, p18
Bentley, John, 2004, 'Will the rural buildings conversion boom continue?', Town and Country Planning 73 (10), October, pp294-297

Blake, James, 1996, 'Resolving Conflict: The rural White Paper, sustainability and countryside policy', (Carfax) Local Environment 1 (2), June pp211-218.

Bramwell, B & Lane, B, (eds.), 1993, 'Rural Tourism and Sustainable Rural Development', Channel View Publications, Clevedon.

Bridger, J.C & Luloff, A.E., 1999, 'Toward an interactional approach to sustainable community development', Journal of Rural Studies 15 (4), September.

Cabinet Office Performance and Innovation Unit, 1999, 'Rural Economies' (Chapter 8: 'Sustaining and Enhancing the Rural Environment'), TSO, tel. (0870) 600 5522, December. Document Division UK/P99/157, at: http://www.cabinet-office.gov.uk/innovation

Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE)
(known until June 2003 as 'Council for the Protection of Rural England'),
128 Southwark St, London SE1 0SW,
tel. (020) 7981 2800, fax. (020) 7981 2899, email: info@cpre.org
- website: http://www.cpre.org.uk
'The Real Choice report' (Impact of refusing planning permission for new superstores on the number of local and regional food suppliers around Saxmundham in East Suffolk' (author: Caroline Cranbrook), CPRE & the Plunkett Foundation, June 2006,
http://www.cpre.org.uk/news-releases/news-rel-2006/24-06.htm

Chapter 7 (reformed from The Rural Planning Group, (affiliated to The Land is Ours), 1999, 'Defining Rural Sustainability: Fifteen Criteria for Sustainable Developments in the Countryside together with Three Model Policies for Local Plans', from 'Chapter 7', 20 St. Michael's Road, Yeovil, Somerset BA21. Oversize GP5511.DEF

Cherrett, Trevor, 2006, ‘Demands set for rural areas’, Planning 1664, 14.4.06, p22

Clayton, Keith, 1996, 'Managing the countryside for global warming', Town and Country Planning, 65 (6), June.

Commission for Rural Communities,
‘Under the Radar’, March 2006, http://www.ruralcommunities.gov.uk/data/uploads/Under%20the%20Radar.pdf

Council for the Protection of Rural England (CPRE) (former) - see 'Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE)

Council for the Protection of Rural England (CPRE), London
- website: http://www.cpre.org.uk
‘Rocks and Hard Places: Mineral Resource Planning and Sustainability’, 1996?, Pamphlet GP5514.OWE
‘Waste and the Countryside’, July 1997. (OFL)
'Change for the Better', July 1998.
'Working on the land', (employment sites on greenfield land), July 1998.
'What you measure matters: a green approach to competitiveness', August 1998.(OFL)
'Countryside Choices', September 1998.

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, Wetherby:
(with English Heritage and English Nature), 'Conservation Issues in Strategic Plans', CCP 420, 1993.
'Sustainability and the English Countryside: a position statement', CCP 432, 1993.
'Quality of Countryside: Quality of Life: The Countryside Commission's Prospectus into the next century', 1995.
'Sustainable Rural Tourism - Opportunities for Local Action', 1995.
(with English Tourist Board), 'The Green Light: a guide to sustainable tourism', 1992.
(with English Heritage and English Nature), 'Conservation Issues in Local Plans', 1996.
'What Matters and Why: Environmental Capital; a new approach', 1997.
'Eight Propositions for Planning and the Countryside', Countryside Commission Press Release no. 98/38, 19.9.98.

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR) (June 1997-June 2001)
(replaced in June 2001 by the Department of Transport Local Government and the Regions (DTLR) and
the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)
'Planning for Sustainable Development: Towards Better Practice', (Chapter 4: Revitalising and Enhancing the Countryside', TSO, October 1998.(OFL)
'The Effectiveness of Policy Guidance on Sport and Recreation', TSO, 1998. (OFL)

Dewar, David, 2003, 'Rural guide puts brevity forefront' (Draft PPS7: Sustainable Development in Rural Areas), Planning 1538, 26.9.03, p8

Dix, Carol & Bentley, John, 2005, 'Low-key ventures win kudos', (models for sustainable rural living), Planning 1635, 9.9.05, p14-15

Donaldson, Andrew; Lowe, Philip & Ward, Neil, 2002, 'Towards a sustainable rural economy: lessons from foot and mouth', in Eames, Malcolm with Adebowale, Maria, (eds.), 2002, 'Sustainable development and social inclusion', Joseph Rowntree Foundation, York. ISBN 1 84263 117 9 (Oversize GP5511 SUS).

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

Elson, Martin, et al., 1995, 'Good Practice in the Planning and Management of Sport and Active Recreation in the Countryside', Department of the Environment (former), London.

*Fairlie, Simon, 1996, 'Low-Impact Development'; Planning and People in a Sustainable Countryside, Jon Carpenter Publishing, Charlbury, Oxfordshire. (OFL)
Fairlie, Simon, 1996, 'Rural retreats for a sustainable lifestyle', Planning Week, 19.9.96.
Fairlie, Simon, 1996, 'More cheers for pointers to sustainable countryside', Planning 11.10.96, pp26-27.
Fairlie, Simon, 1996, 'Sustainable and low impact developments in the countryside', Journal of Planning and Environment Law, November, pp903-912.
*Fairlie, Simon & the TLIO Rural Planning Group, ?1997, 'Defining Rural Sustainability' (Consultation Paper on low-impact rural development), available from Simon Fairlie, Tinkers Bubble, Little Norton, Norton-sub-Hamden, Somerset TA14, Oversize Pamphlet GP5515.DEF and at http://www.oneworld.org/tlio/research/defining.html
Fairlie, Simon, 1999, 'Defining Rural Sustainability', Town and Country Planning 68 (3), March.
Fairlie, Simon, 1999, 'A life less ordinary' (planners and sustainable rural lifestyles), Planning 1308, 5.3.99
Fairlie, Simon, 1999, 'Searching for a rural cure' (planners policy vacuum over rural sustainability), Planning 1319, 21.5.99.
Fairlie, Simon, 2001, 'Low-Impact living: Unused policy seeks occupier' (Simplified Planning Zones), Town and Country Planning 70 (6), June, p190.
Fairlie, Simon, 2003, 'Sustainable Homes and Livelihoods in the Countryside', Chapter 7, tel. (01460) 249204
Fairlie, Simon, 2003, 'No mere marginal issue', (criteria-based policies for low-impact residential development in the countryside),Town and Country Planning 72 (7), August, pp204-207
Fairlie, Simon, 2005, 'The Cutting Edge of Sustainability' (discussion of PPS7), Town and County Planning 74 (1), January, p38

Farringdon, John, et al, 1998, ''Rural sustainability and the fuel price escalator', Town and Country Planning 67 (11), December.

Findlay, Catherine, 1997, 'Bio-power', Landscape Design, December 1996/January.

Flynn, A & Marsden, T.K, 1995, 'Rural Change, Regulation and Sustainability', Environment and Planning A 27, pp1180-1192.

Fyson, Anthony, 2004, 'Absurd side of sustainable rural development' (the new country houses debate), Planning 1584, 27.8.04, p10

Hague, Barry, 1996, 'Training for a Green Future', (energy crops take-up), Renewable Energy New Review, Issue 28, March.

Harper, Sarah, (ed.), 1992, 'The Greening of Rural Policy: International Perspectives', Belhaven Press, London. GP1850.GRE

Hodge, Ian, 1999, 'Countryside Planning: From Urban Containment to Sustainable Development', Chapter 5 in Barry Cullingworth (ed.), 'British Planning: 50 Years of Urban and Regional Policy', The Athlone Press, London & Brunswick New Jersey. ISBN 0 485 00404 6 (Hb) / 0 485 00604 9 (pb). (GP5511.BRI)

Hopkins, Rob, 1996, ‘Permaculture: A New Approach for Rural Planning’, ?

Hughes, Rod & Hamer, Richard, 1996, 'Sustainable Rural Development ; the future?', (Ambit Publications) Report for the Natural and Built Environment Professionals, Issue 15, April.

Hymas, Mike, 1998, 'Agenda 2000 is too timid', Planning 1260, 20.3.98.

Kerven, Richard & Chambers, Bob, 2003, 'Briefing for rural sustainability', (in the north-east), Town and Country Planning 72 (5), June, p165.

Knapman, David, 1995, 'Towards a more sustainable style of rural developkment', Planning 1103, 27.1.95.

Lainton, Andrew, 1996, 'Test case to answer in revised rural guidance' (on revised draft of PPG7), Planning, 4.10.96, pp28-29.

Law, Ben, 2006, ‘The Woodland House’, Permanent Publications, tel. (01730) 823311.

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

Local Government Management Board (former; became part of the
Improvement and Development Agency; IDeA, in April 1999):
'Sustainable Development in Rural Areas', 1994 (OFL).
'Action on the Coast', 1995.

Loney, Nick, 2003, 'From farming to a greener future', (Government policy and creating a sustainable rural economy), Regeneration & Renewal, 101.03, p14

Lord, Carolyn, 1997, 'Willowing around in sustainability' (willow coppicing plant), Planning Week, 5 (5), 6.2.97.

Lowe, Philip & Murdoch, J., 1992, 'Rural Sustainable Development', (former) Rural Development Commission (part of the Countryside Agency since April 1999), Salisbury, Wiltshire.

*Marsden, Terry, 2000, 'Rural Sustainability', TCPA Tomorow Series Paper 4, Town and Country Planning Association, January. ISBN 0902797778 (GF1850.MAR)
Marsden, Terry, 2000, 'In search of rural sustainability', Town and Country Planning 69 (3), March.
Marsden, Terry, 2003, 'The Condition of Rural Sustainability', Royal Van Gorcum, Assen (Netherlands), ISBN 90 232 3881 8

Molnar, Steve, 1997, 'Fuelling the finest of best practice' (short rotation cropping guidelines), Planning 1210, 21.3.97.

Nicholson, David, 1998, 'Cracking the Eigg', (Forum for the Future) Green Futures, May/June.

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (2002-)
- website: http://www.odpm.go.uk
'Draft Planning Policy Statement (PPS) 7 - Sustainable Development in Rural Areas', October 2003, http://www.odpm.gov.uk/stellent/groups/odpm_planning/documents/source/xTOC9
'Planning Policy Statement Seven: Sustainable development in rural areas', August 2004,
http://www.info4local.gov.uk/searchreport.asp?id=20998&heading=e-mail+alert

O'Riordan, Tim & Cobb, Dick, 1996, 'That elusive definition of sustainable agriculture', Town and Country Planning, 65 (2), February.

Owen, Susan, 1996, ‘Sustainability and Rural Settlement Planning’, Planning Practice and Research, 11 (1).

Perraton, Jean, 1996, 'Policy note floats vision of a very pale countryside' (weak sustainability in the 1996 draft revision of PPG7), Planning no. 1189, 4.10.96.
Perraton, Jean, 1999, 'Town and Country Planning Summer School Prize Paper: Joining Up The Couintryside', Paper presented to the 1999 Town and Country Planning Summer School, available at http://www.planningsummerschool.com/
Perraton, Jean, 2000, 'Joining up the Countryside' (sustainability and rural policy), Town and Country Planning, April, pp110-112.

Pitcher, Keith & Lord, Carolyn, 1997, ‘Willowing around in sustainability’, (willow coppicing plant proposals), Planning Week, 6.2.97.

*Pretty, Jules, 1998, 'The Living Land' (sustainable agriculture, localised good systems and rural community development), Earthscan, London. (OFL)
*Pretty, Jules N, 1998, 'Regenerating Agriculture: Policies and Practice for Sustainability and Self-Reliance', ?Earthscan, London. (OFL).

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

Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Royal Town Planning Institute, and County Planning Officers' Society, 1995, 'Tomorrow's Countryside' A Rural Strategy', RTPI, London. Oversize GP5511 TOM
RICS, Royal Town Planning Institute and The Planning Officers' Society, 1999, 'The Countryside: a rural strategy', RTPI, POS & RICS, London, April . Oversize GP5511.ROY

Rural Development Commission (former; merged with the Countryside Commission in April 1999 to form the
Countryside Agency - RDC publications now available from Countryside Agency Postal Sales, Wetherby:
'Rural Sustainable Development' (Lowe, P & Murdoch, J), 1993.
'Rural Transport Problems and Needs' (Huntley, P & Tahylor, J), 1993.
'LIfestyles in Rural England' (Cloke, P; Millbourne, P & Thomas, C), 1994.

Schwarz, Walter & Dorothy, 1987, 'Breaking Through: theory and Practice of wholistic living', especially Chapter 6: Sustainable Agriculture', Green Books, Bideford, Devon.

Scott, A.J., 1998, 'The contribution of forums to rural sustainable development', Journal of Environmental Management 54 (4), December, pp291-303.

Selman, Paul, 1996, 'Local Sustainability', Paul Chapman Publishing, London.

Stapleton, Chris, 1996, 'The quality of agricultural land and sustainable development', (Ambit Publications) Report for the Nautral and Buiilt Environment Professionals, April.

Sutherland, William L, 2002, 'Restoring a Sustainable Countryside', Trends in Evolution & Ecology 119, February,
http://news.bmn.com/hmsbeagle/119/notes/feature2

The Countryside Agency, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
- website: http://www.countryside.gov.uk
The Countryside Agency publications available from Countryside Agency Postal Sales, Wetherby
'Trains for Market Towns: Making the links with regeneration, sustainability and sscial inclusion', TCA Yorkshire & Humberside Regional Office, 2001
'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
Promoting rural communities: a summary of a Suffolk rural regeneration project', CA 117, 2003.
Sustaining sustainable rural communities: a guide', CA 118, 2003.
'Sustaining rural communities: a summary booklet', CA 119, 2003.
'Breathing new life into rural communities', CA 120, 2003.
'Made to measure - how to measure the success of local community action', CA139, 2003.
'Planning for sustainable rural economic development', CA 168, 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
CRN10: 'The Organic Farming Environment', 2000 (free).
CRN14: 'Local Product Directories', 2000. (free)
CRN37. 'Farmers' markets in the south-east of England: their economic, environmental and social performance', August 2001 (free).
CRN41. 'Bikerail: integrated transport policies', 2002, free.
CRN47, 'Are villages sustainable?', 2002, free.

Turner, Phil, 2002, 'Disappearing European habitat - sustainable rural communities', Planning 1484, 30.8.02, p20

Wakeford, Richard, 1999, 'The sustainable countryside' (thoughts on the new Countryside Agency's role), Town and Country Planning 68 (4), April.

Ward, Colin, 1998, 'Mabey's collegiate ideal' (potential of low impact of joint households and rural 'singletons''), Town and Country Planning 67 (3), April.

Watt, Alan & Purcell, Martin, 1997, 'The new champions of sustainable community participation?' (the Scottish Office's Rural Partnership in the Angus area), Town and Country Planning 66 (7/8), August.

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

Warburton, Colin, 1998, 'Mabey's Collegiate ideal' (potential of low impact joint households for rural 'singletons'), Town and Country Planning, April

Williams, Jo, 2001, 'Achieving Local Sustainability in Rural Communities', Chapter 14 in Layard, Antonia; Davoudi, Simin & Batty, Susan, (eds) 2001, 'Planning for a Sustainable Future', Spon Press, London. ISBN 0415234085 (pb), pp235-252, (HC79.E5.P5)

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.