ABSTRACT
The synthesis of research and information on rural housing and movement through the housing stock has attempted to provide a commentary on national trends. In the south of Cotswold District, the provision of local authority housing has led to concentrations of growth at Siddington and South Cerney, and substantial growth has also taken place in villages such as Kempsford and Preston. The pattern of growth in South Oxfordshire which had been characteristic particularly of the 1960s continued in the 1970s, though at a slightly reduced rate. The background against which local housing and planning policies in South Oxfordshire District will be formed in the 1980s is sketched out in the First Structure Plan for Oxfordshire, submitted in 1976 and approved by the minister in early 1979. Population growth was not universally the case even in the 1960s, however, and in Northleach Rural District the rate of population loss actually increased from 8·8 to 9·6 per cent.
