13/01/2020 – RSN Executive Meeting
MINUTES FOR RURAL SERVICES NETWORK EXECUTIVE AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS Venue: English Rural Housing Association, 7A Strutton Ground, Westminster, London, SW1P 2HY Date: Monday 13th of January 2019 Time: 11.15am to 2.30pm To download the agenda and the papers associated with the meeting click here To download these minutes of the meeting click here 1. Attendance & […]
Spotlight on our seminars – 2020 Programme
The Rural Services Network is excited to launch our RSN 2020 Seminar Programme Each year we provide a range of seminar/networking events across the breadth of the country, with one event taking place in each region. We recognised that not all of our member organisations were able to attend our London meetings due to pressures […]
High Street suffers worst year on record
MailOnline reports that retail sales have fallen for the first time since records began in 1995, according to figures from figures from KPMG and the British Retail Consortium (BRC) Total retail sales in stores and online fell by 0.1 per cent in 2019, with non-food sales falling 1.4 per cent over the three months before […]
Government funding gives village halls a new lease of life
The Times has reported that village halls are enjoying an unexpected resurgence amidst widespread set-backs for shops and other rural services. Community halls that have been adapted have enjoyed renewed popularity by offering the space for coffee shops, concerts, yoga, outreach post offices, pop-up pubs, cinema evenings alongside traditional activities such as pre-schools and Women’s Institute […]
Ofcom sets out plan for rapid investment in UK rural broadband
The Financial Times reported on Ofcom’s announcement for its proposals for regulation of the fixed telecoms market describing this as ‘new, flexible regulation that will help to build a full-fibre future for the whole of the UK’ It is consulting on these proposals until 1st April, with their decisions published in early 2021. As part […]
Government to launch ‘Bus Open Data Service’
The Department for Transport is ramping up its National Bus Location Data Plans, so that passengers should soon be able to know where every bus in the country is, reports CBR The £4 million project aims to provide passengers, especially in rural locations, with digital journey-planning products and real-time bus location data by 2021. The […]
Rural Affairs Secretary speaks at the Oxford Farming Conference
The Telegraph has covered Environment Secretary Theresa Villiers’ announcement over the Government’s landmark Agriculture Bill, which will be introduced this month to Parliament to replace the Common Agricultural Policy Speaking at the Oxford Farming Conference on Tuesday, Villiers explained this means EU farming subsidies will be replaced by a fund linked to efforts to combat […]
Sub-national electricity and gas consumption analysis
The attached spreadsheet presents information on mean electricity and gas domestic consumption at the local authority level for the period spanning 2015 to 2018. The data comes from the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy. This analysis looks at the situation for a chosen authority and for the class and classification averages of that […]
