Land use change at the urban:rural fringe and in the wider countryside

Written in January 2006 by the Department of Town and Regional Planning, University of Sheffield. This document reports on a series of data analyses commissioned by The Countryside Agency in support of its second assessment of change in countryside quality in England. It plays a part in extending the work of the Countryside Quality Counts project (CQC) to cover the period 1998 to 2003, and more generally contributing to addressing long-term concerns with change in countryside character and quality.