Rural Affordable Housing
Rural communities are grappling with a severe affordable housing crisis, marked by high house prices, elevated living costs, and lower incomes, threatening their sustainability and vitality.
14 Feb 2022
Huge rise in £1 million homes across the UK
The Times reports that one in 42 homes in Britain is worth £1 million or more, with about 80 per cent of new “property millionaires” created in the past year...
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04 Jan 2022
First Homes Report Published
On 28 December 2021 Government requirements for the provision of First Homes as part of affordable housing contributions came into effect Apart from some areas where transitional arrangements will apply,...
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04 Jan 2022
North Yorkshire’s rural communities need a long-term strategy
The chairman of a commission has claimed in the Yorkshire Post that deeply ingrained issues blighting rural communities will only be resolved with a long-term vision spanning at least the...
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20 Dec 2021
CPRE – Housing Crisis
The CPRE, (the Countryside Charity), have recently published… You often hear people talk about a housing crisis, and addressing it is something that we at CPRE are passionate about. We’ll explain...
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22 Nov 2021
Rural Homelessness Focus of new Study
Rural homelessness is an unseen crisis in the countryside, driven by limited access to services and an absence of affordable homes The extent of the crisis is unclear as limited...
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15 Nov 2021
Regeneration of brownfield sites is creating much-needed housing
The Metro reports that according to the Campaign for Rural England (CPRE), nearly 21,000 brownfield sites of different sizes are registered on local authority databases in England, with the capacity...
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08 Nov 2021
NHS staff unable to find rental homes in Cornwall
The BBC reports NHS workers have called the stress of finding a rental property in Cornwall “overwhelming” Graham Milne, who works in the radiography department at the Royal Cornwall Hospital,...
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18 Oct 2021
Rural crisis as young people consider moving as they can’t afford to live in villages
The Daily Express reports that a YouGov poll by the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) revealed that only two in five 16 to 25-year-olds who are living in the...
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11 Oct 2021
Rural UK house prices show strongest monthly rise since 2007
The Guardian reports that house prices registered the strongest monthly rise for 14 years in September, pushing the average cost of a home to a record high and reversing a...
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04 Oct 2021
Levelling up is failing to solve the rural housing and planning crisis
An article written by our Chief Executive, Graham Biggs, featured this week in The Planner and a copy of the article is shown below The government’s ‘levelling-up’ agenda will need...
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