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23 Jan 2023
Countryfile features RSN Research
The Countryfile episode aired on Sunday 22nd January 23 featured research by the Rural Services Network In a story focusing on Levelling Up and the investment by the Government into...
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23 Jan 2023
Levelling Up Funds announced
On 18th January 2023, the Government announced allocations to more than 100 projects who were awarded funding as part of Round 2 of the Governments flagship Levelling Up Fund to...
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23 Jan 2023
Thousands march across Dartmoor to demand right to wild camp
The Guardian reports that more than 3,000 people joined one of the UK’s largest ever countryside access protests on Saturday on the Dartmoor estate of a wealthy landowner who won...
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23 Jan 2023
Cornwall rural homes to get ultra-fast broadband upgrade
The BBC reports that thousands of rural Cornwall homes and businesses are in line for ultra-fast broadband connections Local provider Wildanet has been awarded £36m to roll out the gigabit-capable...
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23 Jan 2023
Somerset solar farm designed to power 10,000 homes approved
The BBC reports that a solar farm designed to power up to 10,000 Somerset homes is to be built near protected countryside in Dorset Elgin Energy has got permission to...
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23 Jan 2023
Spotlight on Rural Housing – January 2023
A quarterly bulletin facilitated by your membership of the Rural Services Network and produced in partnership with the Rural Housing Alliance, highlighting a selection of current rural housing issues and...
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16 Jan 2023
Suffering from the rural cost of living? Make your thoughts known in household survey
The Rural Services Network in partnership with the Citizens Advice Rural Issues Group has launched a Rural Cost of Living Household Survey Independent research commissioned by the RSN in summer...
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16 Jan 2023
MPs to hear plan to get rural households to run heating on vegetable oil
The Guardian reports that a proposal to incentivise households in rural areas to run their heating systems on vegetable oil is to be put to parliament The former environment secretary,...
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16 Jan 2023
South West rural bus services underfunded
Teignmouth Today reports that local campaigners battling to save south Devon’s rural bus services have said the fight goes on Dawlish and Teignbridge councillor Alison Foden has been fighting to...
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16 Jan 2023
Rural villages ‘under assault’ by greenfield property development
The Express reports that analysis by the Campaign to Protect Rural England suggests there are currently more than 400,000 homes with planning permission on greenfield sites Even if planning applications...
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