RSN Economic Profiling Service – September 2021
The RSN Economic Profiling Service provides an analysis of Alternative Claimant Count with the September 2021 addition now being available. The analysis examines the ratio of claimant on flows to off flows as well as claimant counts as a percentage of working population. Claimant counts have been significantly affected by the Covid pandemic, so it […]
NICRE explores contribution of rural enterprise to Levelling Up
The National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise (NICRE) is leading the rural economy session alongside supporting the National Rural Conference 2021 The session on Tuesday 14 September will explore the contribution rural enterprise can make to Levelling Up as set out by its briefing paper earlier this year. It will also trail further evidence to […]
A message from NFU President – Minette Batters
The government’s commitment to levelling up is incredibly important, and timely. The countryside and rural communities are a key part of British life – literally fuelling the country with the fantastic food this land produces and contributing more than £120 billion to the national economy.
Published – The Local Shop Report 2021
The ACS (the Association of Convenience Stores) have published the Local Shop Report 2021
Ministers drop shake-up of planning laws
The Times reports that the government is reportedly backtracking on its commitment to overhaul planning laws in order to accelerate infrastructure projects with a target of building 300,000 homes a year in England, following criticism from southern voters and MPs, who said the changes would lead to the “suburbanisation” of green areas without delivering much-needed affordable housing
‘Lack of interest’ in return of West Yorkshire rural forum from local leaders
The Yorkshire Post reports that Councillor Stewart Golton and Liberal Democrat John Lawson collaborated on a letter sent to West Yorkshire Combined Authority board members, in hopes to reunite the West Yorkshire Rural Partnership group due to recent success of similar organisations in other parts of Yorkshire
Rural Media film shortlisted for Best Scripted Short at Broadcast Digital Awards
Rural Media’s New Creatives short-film Aisle 17 has been shortlisted for Best-Scripted Short at the 2021 Broadcast Digital Awards
BT Adds 17 Rural Locations to Northern Ireland FTTP Rollout
The ISP Review reports that BT Openreach has today named a further 17 new rural towns and villages across Northern Ireland that, over the next 18 months, will benefit from a local investment of £130m to help expand the reach of their 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network
Planned redrawing of Welsh seats criticised for breaking up rural communities
The Guardian reports that proposals for a huge shake-up of the UK parliamentary map in Wales have provoked criticism for threatening to break up tight-knit valley communities in the south and creating vast, unwieldy rural constituencies
