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Future of Rural Areas

The RSN is challenging often overlooked rural threats such as chronic underfunding, changes in population and diminishing resources.

Questions over future of rural petrol stations
19.04.2021

Questions over future of rural petrol stations

Trade publication Autocar has reported on news that around 100 petrol stations were forced to pause sales last year due to the pandemic In 2019, 70 per cent of independent filling stations that were operating in 2000 shut their...

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Rural co-working spaces are on the rise
12.04.2021

Rural co-working spaces are on the rise

The Telegraph reports that daily ‘commuter trains’ now appear ‘outdated and unproductive’, as we are embracing a new flexible, hybrid model of working and commuting, whether through choice or the closure of city offices Poor home broadband speeds and...

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10 rural areas with the biggest property price increase in the UK
22.03.2021

10 rural areas with the biggest property price increase in the UK

Country Living reports that rural property prices are at ‘an all-time high’, as Britons moved out of city apartments to escape to the country in lockdown this year House prices in rural areas have risen by 20.8 percent in...

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School Inspections
03.03.2021

School Inspections

This analysis presents the overall effectiveness of state-funded schools inspected in England for the period 1 September 2019 to 31 August 2020, using source data from Ofsted.  Select the authority of interest to show the results for the education service...

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Population Projection
01.03.2021

Population Projection

This analysis presents the midyear population estimates for 2019 and the population projection for 2043 in 5 year age brackets, from age 15, as a proportion of total population. It also presents the percentage change from 2019 to 2043. A...

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Population Migration
01.03.2021

Population Migration

This analysis presents net internal migration, which are residential moves between different local authorities within the UK, for 5 year age brackets and split by gender. The analysis allows selection of a number of authority classification and class types for...

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Population Life Expectancies
01.03.2021

Population Life Expectancies

This analysis presents the life expectancy by gender at birth in 2016-18. It provides for comparison the life expectancies for the rural-urban classifications. →  Download the Population Life Expectancies analysis here...

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Letter to Housing Minister from APPG for Rural Services
01.03.2021

Letter to Housing Minister from APPG for Rural Services

Following an All Party Parliamentary Group meeting for Rural Services, the Chairman Rt Hon Philip Dunne MP wrote to the Minister for Housing to consider: The importance of rural exception sites to deliver affordable housing Applying a...

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Population Estimates
01.03.2021

Population Estimates

This analysis presents midyear population estimates for the years 2005 and 2019 in 5 year age brackets, from age 15, as a proportion of total population. It also presents the percentage change from 2005 to 2019. A comparison between the...

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The Government's ‘relentless push for development’ is ‘destroying rural England’
22.02.2021

The Government's ‘relentless push for development’ is ‘destroying rural England’

Ros Coward, Professor Emerita of Journalism at Roehampton University, has written in the Guardian this week that local action groups are protesting to save stretches of the countryside from destruction, including housing projects and road building projects planned on green-belts...

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Barriers to Access

The RSN campaigns to help rural residents overcome multiple access barriers to key services which includes poor transport and broadband.

Future of Rural Areas

The RSN is challenging often overlooked rural threats such as chronic underfunding, changes in population and diminishing resources.

Rural Health and Wellbeing

The RSN wants to ensure rural communities have the same access to health care as is currently received in urban areas.

Rural Vulnerability

Rural residents can suffer from Rural Vulnerability, due to a combination of issues such as poor transport, lack of broadband low wages and higher than average house prices. 

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The affordability of rural housing to people from a range of ages and backgrounds is key concern for RSN.

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The RSN works to encourage a thriving rural economy in order to help support our rural communities.

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