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.
11 Apr 2023
Planners approve modular homes for homeless in Cornwall
The BBC report Cornwall Council’s plans to install more one-bedroom modular units for homeless people on a site in Long Rock have been approved The application was unanimously approved by the...
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11 Apr 2023
Spotlight on Rural Housing – April 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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27 Mar 2023
Rural Homelessness Getting Worse
Sky News has featured the recently published research into rural homelessness which was commissioned by a group of key rural organisations including the Rural Services Network. The research found that...
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20 Mar 2023
Chronic increase of ‘hidden’ homelessness in the countryside fuelled by cost-of-living crisis, ground-breaking report shows
A year-long study exposes a surge in rural rough sleeping since the pandemic has been worsened by the cost-of-living crisis According to analysis of official statistics, rough sleeping in rural...
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02 Feb 2023
National Park planners are highly commended in RTPI awards
The work of Peak District National Park planners in achieving a high quality affordable housing scheme in a protected area has been recognised in the Royal Town Planning Institute’s East...
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02 Feb 2023
Rural Roots: How Exception Sites and Section 106 Agreements keep local people in their Communities
Rural Exception Sites (RES) and Section 106 Quota Sites (S.106) are two ways that affordable housing can be built in rural areas. Building affordable housing in rural areas is important...
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30 Jan 2023
More affordable homes could be built in rural village and hamlets in the Derbyshire Dales
Derbyshire Live reports a Derbyshire council has secured new powers aimed at building more affordable housing in rural villages and hamlets Derbyshire Dales District Council first discussed the aim to obtain the...
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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
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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07 Nov 2022
Cost-of-living crisis in the countryside
The below article written by RSN Chair Cecilia Motley is featured in this months Local Government First (click here to view this article). (NB it was written for publication before Liz Truss...
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