Description
Book SynopsisBuilding in Arcadia: The case for well-designed rural development is a reasoned, impassioned and ultimately practical book identifying key barriers to rural development, and how planning applicants (whether householders, developers and landowners), and most particularly their agents who make the applications – architects, landscape architects or planners – can address, and overcome, them.
Focusing on the positive aesthetic role buildings can play in the landscape, and proposing sensitive development, Building in Arcadia also explores the essential economic, social and environmental case for more building in the countryside to make the countryside more viable. In so doing, it will actively engage, challenge and provoke debate – as well as offering practical ways forward.
Table of ContentsContents
Foreword: Lord Matthew Taylor
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART 1: PLANNING CONSTRAINTS ON COUNTRYSIDE DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 1: The English Arcadia
Chapter 2: Policy
Chapter 3: Decision-taking
Chapter 4: Planning for a new development
PART 2: MAKING THE CASE FOR DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 5: Examining perceptions of new development – the survey of English Councillors
Chapter 6: Case studies
PART 3: A NEW APPROACH
Chapter 7: A new approach to assessment
Chapter 8: Rural Building Assessment
Chapter 9: RBA – worked example
Bibliography
Appendix: Survey of Local Authority Councillors into the attitudes towards development in the English countryside
