Chapter 7Market towns, housing and social inclusion
Introduction
Two contrasting trends might be distinguished in the evolution of the relationship between market towns and their hinterlands, and with it the characteristics of their housing systems and markets. These raise the question of whether housing in market towns simply takes on the housing market characteristics of the rural region within which they are located, or has a distinctly different character and role from housing in the surrounding rural areas.
Embedded in early post-war planning policies and still underpinning the planning of housing in rural regions was a planning tradition that has emphasised the distinction between the market town and its ...
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