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We have various publications available for purchase.

These feature research, informative advice and relevant case studies concerning many matters that affect market towns throughout the UK.

Members Special Offer

We are currently sending a free copy of 'Market Towns - Options for a Share in the Future', with every publication order received.

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Simply use the "tick boxes" to select the publications you require, complete your delivery details in the form below and click the Generate Order Form button. This will automatically format an order form which you can then print and send to us with your cheque for the required amount.


To Have and to hold

To Have And To Hold - The DTA guide to asset development for community and social enterprises

It is now nearly ten years since the DTA published "Asset Based Development for Community Based Regeneration Organisations". This set out the opportunities for local community based organisations to benefit in the long term from the development of land and buildings, by taking responsibility for their ownership and control and improving and using them to meet community needs.

Since then quite a lot has changed and moved on.

 

£16.00


Market Towns - Options for a Share in the Future
(ISBN 1-869964-64-0) 1998.
The research report published by Action for Market Towns

more info

£5.00


New Life for Smaller Towns- A Handbook for Action
(ISBN 0-952591-1-1) 1998.
Published by URBED.

 

£8.00


The Totally Excellent Youth Council Handbook.
Youth councils are gaining in popularity, this new guide spells out how to get started. It is based on the experiences of Hampshire Association of Parish and Town Councils and covers all aspects of the initiative, from getting started to how to conduct meetings. Seventy-six pages, A4. Issue 4 - 1999.

 

£11.50


The Community Planning Handbook.
All over the world there is increasing demand from all sides for more local involvement in the planning and management of the environment. But how should it be done? How can local people best involve themselves in the complexities of architecture, planning and urban design? How can professionals best build on local knowledge and resources? Issued 2000.

 

£15.95

 


 

Living Over The Shop - A Handbook for Practitioners.
A handbook detailing how to undertake and finance LOTS schemes, the technical and legal considerations and useful case studies. Eighty nine pages of A4. Issued April 1992.

 

£17.50


Night Site
The Civic Trust Regeneration Unit and the Joint Mobility Unit have together produced the 'Night Site' guide to the issues raised by the evening economy for people who are elderly or disabled.

The study highlights the access needs of older and disabled people with a view to raising awareness of the need to create welcoming environments among policy-makers and providers of evening activities and services. It introduces ideas and creative ways of making town centres accessible.

 

£6.60


Market Towns Local Foodcheck Handbook

Market Towns Local Foodcheck Handbook
The Market Towns' Healthcheck has become an established process that is helping communities to appraise the strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for their towns and to develop plans to enhance them. To complement the Healthcheck and provide further guidance in an area of importance to many people, a 'Local Foodcheck' has been developed which provides a mechanism for supporting and enhancing a town's local food economy.

more info

FREE
(£3.00 is payable for p/p)


Assessment of the MTI

Assessment of the Market Towns Initiative - a summary
Market towns have a unique role to play, offering all elements of life, both economic and social. But while some towns are thriving, many others have experienced decline in recent years. The impact of out-of-town shopping centres, closure of livestock markets and increased mobility for many people have reduced the viability of high street businesses, social cohesiveness and the quality and diversity of services.

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FREE
(£2.50 is payable for p/p)


Beacon Towns

Beacon Towns: The story continues
Following Defra's Rural Strategy 2004, the Countryside Agency is changing. In terms of its socio-economic functions, it will become a smaller, watchdog organisation, with its delivery role taken over by a range of other organisations (including the RDAs and Government Offices).

more info

FREE
(£3.50 is payable for p/p)


Evaluating Cittaslow

Evaluating Cittàslow: An East of England Pilot Project
This study evaluated the process of applying the Italian concept to the UK context, and to the particular circumstances of the towns of Aylsham and Diss in Norfolk. The work was completed with the collaboration of the international committee of Cittàslow and the newly developing Cittàslow UK. Cittàslow is a concept that enables local communities to create and celebrate towns "where the living is good". It is a new approach, developed in Italy, which applies the principles of the "Slow" movement and of Slow Food to our everyday lives, to the places where we live.

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(£3.00 is payable for p/p)


 

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