Future of Rural Areas
The RSN is challenging often overlooked rural threats such as chronic underfunding, changes in population and diminishing resources.
10 May 2021
Urban Flight – move to rural homes only for well off, says think tank
Think tank, The Resolution Foundation, has published new research in Estate Agent Today suggesting that ‘urban flight’ – when people leave cities and head for towns and villages – is...
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04 May 2021
RSN Members explore Rural Decarbonisation
Over 75 members of the Rural Services Network last week came together to discuss the issues surrounding Rural Decarbonisation at one of the seminars organised and hosted by the RSN...
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26 Apr 2021
Warning over picturesque countryside at risk of being spoilt by housing developments
There has been a 129 per cent increase in developments planned on greenfield land, putting them at risk of ‘rapid and reckless’ projects, according to new data from the Campaign...
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19 Apr 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...
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12 Apr 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The Telegraph reports that daily ‘commuter trains’ now appear ‘outdated and unproductive’, as we are embracing a new flexible, hybrid model of working and commuting, whether through choice or the...
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22 Mar 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...
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01 Mar 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...
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22 Feb 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,...
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28 Jan 2021
Spotlight on Rural Housing – January 2021
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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25 Jan 2021
How is Western Power Distribution helping their local and rural customers meet net zero?
Below is an article supplied by Western Power Distribution who are members of the Rural Services Partnership The UK’s electricity system is undergoing a rapid period of change as distribution...
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