A report about the future of the countryside could encourage more councils to employ people with jobs in town planning.
This is because The Future is Rural Too study, released today (August 16th), has called for the government to help develop Britain's countryside.
Released by the Rural Coalition - a group of charities and councillors - it said that areas in Britain are turning into theme parks and retirement homes.
"We need a fundamental change of approach to give rural communities a more sustainable future," Lord Taylor of Goss Moor, chairman of the coalition, said.
Campaigners have called for more money to be given to local services to develop shops, post offices, pubs and transport facilities.
Last month, housing minister Grant Shapps revealed the government's Community Right to Build scheme, aimed at encouraging individual districts to develop their own facilities free from "unnecessary red tape and bureaucracy".
Mr Shapps said that the initiative will give areas the "power to preserve their villages".
Posted by Jennifer Masters
