The National Rural Conference 2025

Bookings are now officially open for the National Rural Conference 2025, which will take place online from Monday 15 to Thursday 18 September.
This is the Rural Services Network’s flagship event of the year, bringing together rural decision-makers, practitioners, and advocates for four days of live, interactive sessions focused on the future of rural communities.
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26/06/24 - RSN Seminar: Rural Affordable Housing

- To download the Agenda for this seminar click here

POST EVENT:
PRESENTATIONS



Speakers:

Kerry Booth, Chief Executive, Rural Services Network
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/page/our-team/kerry-booth/

Martin Collett, Chief Executive, English Rural Housing Association

https://englishrural.org.uk/

Patrick Merton-Jones, External Affairs Manager, National Housing Federation
https://www.housing.org.uk/

Tom Chance, Chief Executive, Community Land Trust Network
https://www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk/
 


USEFUL LINKS FROM THE SESSION

Rural Housing Week 2024

https://www.housing.org.uk/our-work/rural- housing/rural-housing-week/

2 July 2024 Rural Housing Week Webinar

https://www.housing.org.uk/nhf_catalog/event-products/webinars/why-rural-communities-need-a-long-term-plan-for-housing/

RSN Winning the Rural Vote Campaign

https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/winning-the-rural-vote

Affordable Housing Chapter of Winning the Rural Vote Campaign

https://rsnonline.org.uk/images/manifesto-2023/rural-affordable-housing-chapter.pdf

RSN Rural Affordable Housing News Articles

https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/tag/rural-affordable-housing

RSN Rural Housing Analysis

https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/category/housing-insights

Rural Housing Alliance

https://rsnonline.org.uk/rural-housing-alliance

Rural Recovery and Revitalisation: The Economic and Fiscal case for investing

in rural affordable housing

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

https://www.cpre.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/State-of-Rural-Affordable-Housing_online.pdf

Rural Exception Sites

https://www.housing.org.uk/rural-exception-sites/#:~:text=Rural%20Exception%20Sites%20are%20small,affordable%20housing%20for%20local%20people

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/housing-needs-of-different-groups#rural-exception-sites      

Homelessness in the Countryside: A Hidden Crisis

https://research.kent.ac.uk/rural-homelessness/home/final-report/

Rural Homelessness Coalition

https://englishrural.org.uk/about-us/research/rural-homelessness-counts-coalition/    

Rural Lens Review on latest DEFRA Rural Proofing Report

https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/rural-lens-review-on-defras-third-rural-proofing-report-for-2024

APPG on Rural Services

https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/category/appg

Rural Services Network Fair Funding Campaign

https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/fairer-funding-campaign

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-dont-act/

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

Community Land Trusts Manifesto 2024

https://www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/CLT-Network-Manifesto-FINAL.pdf

Examples of CLT schemes

https://wwmartin.co.uk/news/project-completion-coxhill-road-shepherdswell

https://swanagecommunityhousing.org/

State of the Community Land Trust Sector 2023
https://www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/State-of-the-Sector-2023-PRESS-1.pdf

CMA finds fundamental concerns in housebuilding market

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/cma-finds-fundamental-concerns-in-housebuilding-market

Britain’s Leading Edge Manifesto

https://www.britainsleadingedge.org/_files/ugd/7a253e_a54965e21847492eaa08de8d14d69548.pdf