Housing market areas and regional spatial geographies Geography of housing market areas in England – paper A www.communities.gov.uk Housing market areas and regional spatial geographies Geography of housing market areas in England – paper A Mark Baker Centre for Urban Policy Studies, School of Environment and Development University of Manchester November 2010 Department for Communities and Local Government Department for Communities and Local Government Eland House Bressenden Place London SW1E 5DU Telephone: 030 3444 0000 Website: www.communities.gov.uk © Queen’s Printer and Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 2010 Copyright in the typographical arrangement rests with the Crown. This publication, excluding logos, may be reproduced free of charge in any format or medium for research, private study or for internal circulation within an organisation. This is subject to it being reproduced accurately and not used in a misleading context. The material must be acknowledged as Crown copyright and the title of the publication specified. You may re-use this information (not including logos) free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government Licence. To view this licence, visit http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government- licence/ or write to the Information Policy Team, The National Archives, Kew, London TW9 4DU, or e-mail:
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[email protected] Online via the website: www.communities.gov.uk November 2010 ISBN:978 1 4098 2651 4 National policy and guidance It is only recently that the use of housing market areas has begun to be adopted within the planning process in England.