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State of the countryside update: Market towns
Posted on: 1 July 2011
By: mackene
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The Commission for Rural Communities has published a report which highlights the importance of market towns for many rural areas. They act as a hub for rural economic and service activity and are therefore at the centre of changes currently taking place in rural England. The report argues that the current rural and urban definition, upon which most government spatial analysis is based, omits the separate consideration of small, medium and large sized towns. This has meant that statistics have not tracked social and economic trends as they impact towns. Perhaps as a result, towns have been generally overlooked from both a research and policy perspective. This update seeks to address this gap by studying a range of topics covering broad themes of population, services, business health, employment and deprivation.
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