07/10/2019 – RSN North West Regional Seminar & Meeting
Minutes of the RSN North West Regional Seminar & Meeting held at Lancashire County Council, 7th October 2019 Thank you to Lancashire County Council for kindly hosting this event – To download the agenda for this meeting click here – To download a copy of these minutes click here Attendees: – Cllr Sue Sanderson, Cumbria County […]
Rural Crime Week of Action
Sunday 6th – Sunday 13th October The National Rural Crime Network is supporting the Rural Crime Week of Action being organised by the National Police Chiefs’ Council and forces across the country. The aim of the week is to put the work being done to identify and tackle rural and wildlife crime in the spotlight […]
5G won’t solve rural connectivity issues
New research from uSwitch.com demonstrates that the introduction of 5G across the country will not solve the UK’s rural connectivity problems ITV reports on the survey that found that a third of adult smartphone users in the UK have trouble connecting to 4G at least once a week. Even after the planned rollout of 5G, […]
Rural homelessness rising
Sky News has this week published research that reveals the number of social homes being built in rural England has fallen by more than 80 per cent over the last six years Analysis, carried out in partnership with Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), found that just 1,309 social houses were built in rural areas […]
Openreach trials rural connectivity solutions
Openreach has announced a trial of new tools and techniques as it works to upgrade 13 rural communities in the UK to faster, more reliable broadband The website CommsBuiness covers the story, reporting that engineers will be deploying full fibre to upgrade 50,000 homes and businesses in villages and market towns across England and Scotland. […]
Public can apply to fund free ATM machines
ATM machine operator Link has established the Community Access to Cash Delivery Fund to tackle concerns that it is becoming harder to access cash, as reported by ITV The fund is currently worth £1 million, but more money is potentially available in the future. It comes as recent figures from Which? demonstrate that more than […]
Vodafone UK shares network to improve rural connectivity
Vodafone UK has announced that it has agreed to share ‘unused’ 4G radio spectrum with StattoOpencell in a bid to improve rural connectivity ISPReview reports that the decision, which has been called an ‘industry first’ will help provide high-speed data in ‘remote areas without fibre connectivity’. The three year agreement has been made possible by […]
Whitehall updates the Index of Multiple Deprivation
The 2019 version of this Index does not solve rural concerns, but it is likely to be widely used and should not be ignored, says Brian Wilson. In late September the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) released an updated version of its Index of Multiple Deprivation, to be known as IMD2019. This […]
Spotlight on the RSN Observatory
The RSN’s Observatory is the place to discover the statistics behind key issues facing rural communities in England, issues that the RSN is striving to highlight and tackle through its work. The Observatory is additionally a great place to understand the numbers that define the communities within our membership through an expanding group of analyses, […]
