Rural homelessness increasing due to cost-of-living crisis, research finds
New research being conducted by the University of Kent and the University of Southampton has found that the cost-of-living crisis and the critical shortage of affordable homes has increased rural homelessness
What happens when all the banks leave town?
The BBC reports that it’s been a couple of months since the last bank closed its doors in Brechin
Call for Prime Minister Liz Truss to put rural communities at heart of Government policies
The Yorkshire Post reports that the new Prime Minister has set economic growth at the forefront of her new administration’s policy-making, aimed at ambitiously rebuilding the economy through tax cuts and reform
Investment zones could be allowed in England’s national parks
The Guardian reports documents show zones with ‘liberalised’ planning laws could get go-ahead even in the most environmentally protected areas
Sleeping in barns – homeless in the countryside
Rural homelessness is England’s
NHS “dental deserts” persist in rural and deprived communities – LGA analysis
The LGA, which represents over 350 councils in England and Wales, is calling on the Government to address shortages in NHS dentists urgently or risk more people requiring costly emergency dental treatment further down the line
