A review of recent rural-urban fringe research, building into a 'vision' for planning at the fringe. The study involves examining how the Countryside Agency's vision for the fringe, set out in Unlocking the Potential (CA, 2004), might be realised and trying to visualise the future of fringe development and management. The output will be three reports to the agency; elements of the project will also be taken forward in Planning on the Edge, to be published by Routledge in 2005.