09/07/25 - RSN Seminar: Rural Affordable Housing

- To download the Agenda for this seminar click here

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PRESENTATIONS

• Kerry Booth, Chief Executive, Rural Services Network, 'Welcome & Introduction to the topic of Rural Affordable Housing'

• Adam Gravely, Policy officer,  National Housing Federation, ‘Affordable rural housing: the benefits of new supply’

• Tim Gwilliam, Rural Housing Enablers, GRCC (Gloucestershire Rural Community Council), ‘Rural Affordable Homes - Part of the foundation of our thriving, healthy communities’

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  Harry Thomson, Senior Business Development Manager, Evouchers, ‘Supporting tenants instantly, with dignity and flexibility’

USEFUL LINKS FROM THE SESSION

National Rural Housing Week
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/rural-housing-week-2025

RSN - Delivering for All Campaign
https://rsnonline.org.uk/delivering-for-all    

Plan for Change
https://www.gov.uk/missions

Delivering a decade of renewal for social and affordable housing
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/686540b0b24f7b12e1a072b9/Delivering_a_decade_of_renewal_for_social_and_affordable_housing.pdf

Reforming Site Thresholds Consultation
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/planning-reform-working-paper-reforming-site-thresholds

Ban on second homes upheld on luxury flats BBC article
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy5wyd53139o

Research announcement on: The impact of devolution on affordable rural housing delivery – key risks and opportunities
https://ccri.ac.uk/research-projects/06/2025/the-impact-of-devolution-on-affordable-rural-housing-delivery-key-risks-and-opportunities/

Rural Housing Design Guide
https://englishrural.org.uk/rural-housing-design-guide/

Rural Services All Party Parliamentary Group
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/category/appg

Rural Housing Alliance
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/rural-housing-alliance

RSN Rural Affordable Housing related news articles
https://rsnonline.org.uk/tag/rural-affordable-housing

RSN Housing Spotlight
https://rsnonline.org.uk/tag/rural-housing-spotlight

Rural Recovery and Revitalisation: The Economic and Fiscal case for investing in rural affordable housing to drive post-pandemic recovery produced by Pragmatix Advisory
https://rsnonline.org.uk/images/campaigns/pragmatix/2020_10_08_Report_to_CPRE_Engli.pdf

Unravelling a crisis: the state of rural affordable housing in England produced by CPRE, The Countryside Charity
https://www.cpre.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/State-of-Rural-AffordableHousing_online.pdf

Homelessness in the Countryside: A Hidden Crisis by academics at the University of Kent and the University of Southampton
https://research.kent.ac.uk/rural-homelessness/home/final-report/

Rural Cost of Living produced by Kovia Consulting
https://rsnonline.org.uk/images/publications/rural-cost-of-living.pdf

Rural Housing Manifesto
https://englishrural.org.uk/rural-housing-manifesto/

Housing Crisis, what will happen if we don’t act?
https://www.housing.org.uk/resources/the-housing-crisis-what-will-happen-if-we-dontact/

Investing in social housing could add over £50bn to the economy
https://www.housing.org.uk/news-and-blogs/news/investing-in-social-housing-couldadd-over-50bn-to-the-economy/

National Housing Federation - Long term plan for housing
https://www.housing.org.uk/our-work/a-long-term-plan-for-housing/

Mind the Gap: How Rural Communities Are Falling Behind on Affordable Homes
https://rsnonline.org.uk/images/uploads-new/16.06.25/Mind_The_Gap_How_Rural_Communi.pdf

DEFRA Communities and Households Statistics, May 2025
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/682b18ba50dbd3ce8372abd1/4_Communities_and_Households__20_05_2025.pdf

DEFRA Housing Statistics, June 2025
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6851688c383f35c998823f78/2_Housing_17_06_2025_v2.pdf#page=56

Rural-Urban Classification
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/rural-urban-classification

New report highlights rural business perspectives on Northumberland’s housing needs,  NICRE
https://nicre.co.uk/news/2025/april/new-report-highlights-rural-business-perspectives-on-northumberland-s-housing-needs/ 

Rural Economy, a sleeping giant worth £19bn
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/rural-economy-a-sleeping-giant-worth-19-billion 

Rural as a region, the hidden challenge for levelling up
https://rsnonline.org.uk/images/publications/rural-as-a-region-the-hidden-challenge-for-levelling-up.pdf

RSN Rural Funding Digest
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/tag/rural-funding-digest

RSN Newsletters
https://rsnonline.org.uk/category/newsletters

RSN Future and Past Events
https://rsnonline.org.uk/events/

Evoucher case studies
https://www.evouchers.com/case-studies/energy-vouchers/

Notes from the seminar can be downloaded by clicking here