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A Contrived CountrysideRural Implementation: Frustration, Challenge and Compromise as Housing Realities

A Contrived Countryside: Rural Implementation: Frustration, Challenge and Compromise as Housing... [Targeting local responses to national policies, this chapter explores the allocation of new-build numbers to councils, pulling out its rather arbitrary nature and potential openness to lobbying. Characteristic of detailed interventions over dwelling numbers were Whitehall’s intrusive directions as regards the design and appearance of dwellings, which were subject to criticism for their lack of sensitivity to local landscapes. Similar interventions punctuated council attempts to secure sites for house-building, which were already complex owing to site problems, acquisition difficulties and added costs supplying services. Government and construction industry preferences for building many homes on single sites saw rural councils pushed in this direction to secure more dwellings. Tension between centralisation pressures and council desires to serve local populations resulted in dissimilar geographies of council-building between districts. High levels of landed estate provision did reduce council-building, but not so as to justify claims estate homes were of sufficient quality council intervention was unnecessary. The chapter concludes by examining the seven investigated districts over the first three-quarters of the century, drawing out how housing priorities changed, but not always in the same way, with national priorities unevenly adapted for local gain.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Contrived CountrysideRural Implementation: Frustration, Challenge and Compromise as Housing Realities

Part of the Local and Urban Governance Book Series
Hoggart, Keith
Springer Journals — Mar 27, 2021
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
ISBN
978-3-030-62650-1
Pages
407 –496
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-62651-8_7
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Abstract

[Targeting local responses to national policies, this chapter explores the allocation of new-build numbers to councils, pulling out its rather arbitrary nature and potential openness to lobbying. Characteristic of detailed interventions over dwelling numbers were Whitehall’s intrusive directions as regards the design and appearance of dwellings, which were subject to criticism for their lack of sensitivity to local landscapes. Similar interventions punctuated council attempts to secure sites for house-building, which were already complex owing to site problems, acquisition difficulties and added costs supplying services. Government and construction industry preferences for building many homes on single sites saw rural councils pushed in this direction to secure more dwellings. Tension between centralisation pressures and council desires to serve local populations resulted in dissimilar geographies of council-building between districts. High levels of landed estate provision did reduce council-building, but not so as to justify claims estate homes were of sufficient quality council intervention was unnecessary. The chapter concludes by examining the seven investigated districts over the first three-quarters of the century, drawing out how housing priorities changed, but not always in the same way, with national priorities unevenly adapted for local gain.]

Published: Mar 27, 2021

Keywords: Housing allocations; Dwelling appearance; Building sites; Centralisation pressures; Intra-district house-building

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