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NEW COMMONS IN THE RURAL-URBAN FRINGE
John PowellCCRI
@CCRI_UKPresentation at the ESRC ‘Realising New Commons’ Workshop
18 November 2015
Rural-urban fringe – current forms of land-use• Residential• Retail centres• Industrial• Agricultural• Recreation• Infrastructure:
– Transport corridors
– Water– Energy– Waste
The rural-urban fringe
“a zone of intermingling land uses”
“a place of change and adjustment”
“a complex landscape”
“heightened competition...and inflated cost of land”
Yateley Common
The nature of commons
• Nature of the resource
• Nature of the governance system
• Property rights
‘Commons’ currently existing• Common land & TVGs• ‘Artificial bits’ of common space and left-overs• Community woodlands (Cydcoed; Red Rose,
Mersey, Great Western Community Forest)• The landscape and greenbelts• Biodiversity – protected areas• Access
– Formal (RoW; HLS Permissive access; waterways;)– Informal (footpaths; ‘abandoned’ land)
Reasons for providing permissive access in HLS agreements (n=221)
Prevalence of user types at access agreement locations (n=221)
Opportunities for new commons...
New commons: for what and for whom...?
Recreation
Landscape
CulturalHeritage
Food production
Natural flood
management
Biodiversity
Carbon sequestration
Waste assimilation
Energy generation
Potential obstacles to new commons• Development potential• Liability fears• Designations• Access• Vandalism/deterioration• Governance
– Limitations of the 2006 Commons Act
– Collective action
Where to focus attention...• Different forms and scales of commons
– Rural-urban fringe as a commons– City-region as a commons– Scope for ‘time limited’ commons
• Institutional arrangements– Communities of users– Powers to craft rules– Guarantees for landowners– Compensation (a transfer of resources?)
• Developing foundation for collective action • A role for local authorities?
Crookham Common