ABSTRACT
One of the twin themes of this book is the conflict of public policy objectives between landscape protection and the release of land for housing. In an area of great landscape attractiveness, such as the Lake District, this conflict is particularly acute as attempts are made to protect the landscape while remaining responsive to the housing needs of local people. For this reason, the Lake District offers a highly appropriate case study, allowing the effects of this conflict of objectives to be analysed in depth. Further, the effects of giving priority to landscape preservation over housing objectives are likely to be distributionally uneven, with property owners generally benefiting while poorer groups find their housing disadvantage reinforced, as suggested in Chapter 3. This case study therefore affords the opportunity of also pursuing the equity theme, developed in Chapters 4 and 5, and of examining the ways in which equity and efficiency interrelate in practice.
