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A Contrived CountrysideUneven Demand: Depopulation, Repopulation and Housing Pressure

A Contrived Countryside: Uneven Demand: Depopulation, Repopulation and Housing Pressure [Common portrayals of rural England up to the last quarter of the twentieth-century paint a picture of rural decline; of job losses, depopulation and outmigration. In this context, it was arguably unreasonable to expect rural councils to be active builders of new homes. This chapter shows this argument is false. Rural districts in general saw increases in population and, more especially, in households throughout the decades. Relatively few saw no increased demand for dwellings, both at district and parish levels. Weaker pressure did exist in places distant from cities but the general pattern was clear. Moreover, rural areas increasingly received urban interest from those seeking recreational bolt-holes, which further squeezed the availability of homes for local residents. Exploring efforts to enhance accommodation supply, this chapter shows how rural districts were badly served by national slum clearance drives, which proceeded with stipulations detrimental to rural action; resulting in depressed rural building, as in the 1930s. Added to which, under most Housing Acts, a serious problem for rural areas was low wages, which commonly put new dwellings outside the reach of rural workers’ pockets.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Contrived CountrysideUneven Demand: Depopulation, Repopulation and Housing Pressure

Part of the Local and Urban Governance Book Series
Hoggart, Keith
Springer Journals — Mar 27, 2021
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Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
ISBN
978-3-030-62650-1
Pages
175 –236
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-62651-8_4
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Abstract

[Common portrayals of rural England up to the last quarter of the twentieth-century paint a picture of rural decline; of job losses, depopulation and outmigration. In this context, it was arguably unreasonable to expect rural councils to be active builders of new homes. This chapter shows this argument is false. Rural districts in general saw increases in population and, more especially, in households throughout the decades. Relatively few saw no increased demand for dwellings, both at district and parish levels. Weaker pressure did exist in places distant from cities but the general pattern was clear. Moreover, rural areas increasingly received urban interest from those seeking recreational bolt-holes, which further squeezed the availability of homes for local residents. Exploring efforts to enhance accommodation supply, this chapter shows how rural districts were badly served by national slum clearance drives, which proceeded with stipulations detrimental to rural action; resulting in depressed rural building, as in the 1930s. Added to which, under most Housing Acts, a serious problem for rural areas was low wages, which commonly put new dwellings outside the reach of rural workers’ pockets.]

Published: Mar 27, 2021

Keywords: Demographic sustainability; Urban incomers; 1930s slum clearance; Rural wages; Housing non-affordability

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