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Accommodating New Housing Development in Rural Areas? Representations of Landscape, Land and Rurality in Ireland

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  • Karen Foley
  • Mark Scott

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Housing development in rural localities represents one of the most visible and contested indicators of landscape change, as many European rural landscapes that are regulated by weak planning regimes are transformed by incremental suburbanisation. However, scant attention has been given to understanding stakeholder perceptions and interpretations of the physical processes of landscape change and preferences towards accommodating new housing development in rural areas among stakeholder groups. We address this deficit by drawing on a series of stakeholder focus groups undertaken in Ireland addressing: 1) stakeholder perceptions of landscape change and 2) attitudes towards future change scenarios based on digitally manipulated images of landscape change. The focus group analysis suggests a nuanced interpretation among rural residents of the impact of accommodating housing development, particularly in balancing local demand for rural housing with preferences for maintaining a sense of 'rural character'; however, there were variations across rural space dependant on the extent of development experienced in recent years.

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  • Karen Foley & Mark Scott, 2014. "Accommodating New Housing Development in Rural Areas? Representations of Landscape, Land and Rurality in Ireland," Landscape Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 39(4), pages 359-386, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:clarxx:v:39:y:2014:i:4:p:359-386
    DOI: 10.1080/01426397.2012.723680
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    1. Somayeh Ahani & Hashem Dadashpoor, 2021. "Urban growth containment policies for the guidance and control of peri-urbanization: a review and proposed framework," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 23(10), pages 14215-14244, October.
    2. Qinglei, Zhao & Guanghui, Jiang & Wenqiu, Ma & Dingyang, Zhou & Yanbo, Qu & Yuting, Yang, 2019. "Social security or profitability? Understanding multifunction of rural housing land from farmers’ needs: Spatial differentiation and formation mechanism—Based on a survey of 613 typical farmers in Pin," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 86(C), pages 91-103.

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