ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses a policy response analysis related to the development of second homes in Norway. It benefits from the option of following this phenomenon from its rise in the period between the two World Wars to the present day. The chapter focuses on the purpose-built leisure houses. If an agglomeration of leisure houses is defined as an area where neighbour leisure houses are no further than 200 meters apart, then approximately two thirds of the leisure houses in OLIR are nowadays located in agglomerations. In 1972, the Ministry for the Environment developed an important policy instrument to deal with land use for recreational purposes the so-called Skjrgrdsparken', or archipelago recreation park in OLIR. In the years before and after the Second World War there was a growing trend, promoted also by the politics of the labour movement, whereby town dwellers acquired low cost leisure cottages on the basis of do-it-yourself building projects.
