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.
12 Jul 2021
Planning Debate
On Thursday 15th July, Bob Seely MP has called a Westminster Hall Debate on the future of the planning system and the upcoming Planning Bill The Rural Services Network has...
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12 Jul 2021
270 rural homes to be built in Cornwall in next three years
In Your Area reports that almost 270 homes are to built in rural areas across Cornwall over the next three years Housing association LiveWest said it has invested more than...
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05 Jul 2021
Rural Housing Week 2021
Rural Housing week is here and we’d like to take this opportunity to shine a light on the work of the RSN that focuses on Rural Affordable Housing, along with...
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05 Jul 2021
Parish Guide to Affordable Rural Housing
This week sees the launch of the newly published Parish Councillor’s Guide to Affordable Housing Published by the Rural Housing Alliance, which works in partnership with the Rural Services Network...
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05 Jul 2021
Spotlight on Rural Housing – July 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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28 Jun 2021
Housing inequalities are growing while more properties are converted to holiday use
The Guardian has recorded their views on second homes and urge main homes to be put first An editorial piece in the newspaper, available at this link, sets out some...
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28 Jun 2021
How affordable rural homes change lives and communities (Cotswold focus)
Are you a Parish Councillor or a Landowner in the Cotswolds? English Rural is holding the second of a series of planned, regional webinars, focussing on how affordable rural housing...
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28 Jun 2021
Unused high street retail spaces could deliver 25,000 new homes
Local publication, In Your Area, reports on new research suggesting that empty high street stores, including Debenhams, could provide space for up to 25,000 homes The research studied the potential...
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28 Jun 2021
Battles loom as housing developers eye rural England
The FT reports that large areas of South Downs National Park are set to be developed into new towns in order to meet Boris Johnson’s housebuilding targets of 300,000 a...
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28 Jun 2021
Air source heat pump: a low carbon heating solution for a rural, off gas home
An article in Energy Saving Trust explores methods of reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2050, including by replacing fossil fuel boilers with electric heating systems, like a heat pump,...
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