ABSTRACT
The purpose of this chapter is not to consider how effective policy might be formulated within the UK, but rather to examine the suggestions put forward in the prior studies, many of which have been pre-empted by more recent developments in housing and planning policy. The housing policy options suggested in prior second home studies tend to be concerned with the provision of housing alternatives in the face of second home demand and general housing shortages or, ways in which housing policy might be used to curb or even halt the demand for second homes. Non-market housing has traditionally been provided by local authorities and the strategy of building rural council housing was generally successful in sustaining local communities. It is these types of policy moves over the last 20 years which have reduced housing access chances of rural households rather than the limited influx of second home purchasers.
