An affordable place to live
03 Feb 2020
National Guidance changed on thresholds for rural affordable housing
In a very welcome revision to the National Planning Practice Guidance, Local Planning Authorities are again able to set their own thresholds for affordable housing in designated rural areas. It...
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27 Jan 2020
Rural Lancashire looks set to be protected from almost 1,000 new homes
Plans for almost 1,000 new homes in rural Lancashire look set to be rejected following a recent landmark ruling on the county’s housing needs. Applications for 974 new homes were...
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27 Jan 2020
Spotlight on Rural Housing – January 2020
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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13 Jan 2020
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...
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03 Dec 2019
Rural services network writes to newspapers across the country to make rural voices heard ahead of election
Press release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Rural services network writes to newspapers across the country to make rural voices heard ahead of election National champion for rural services contacts editors at...
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02 Dec 2019
Provision made for rural communities in 2019 General Election manifestos “woefully inadequate”
Article by Martin Collett, Chief Executive, English Rural Woefully inadequate. That best describes the provision made for rural communities in the 2019 General Election manifestos. Taking the blue, red, and yellow...
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27 Nov 2019
Council Tax Bands of Second Homes
The below analysis uses the Calculation of Council Tax Base 2019 published by the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government to examine the composition of house values of second...
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26 Nov 2019
Second Home Ownership
The attached analysis uses the Calculation of Council Tax Base 2019 published by the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government to calculate the proportion of dwellings on the Valuation...
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18 Nov 2019
Rural homes struggling to install smart meters
The website ThisIsMoney.co.uk covers the story that rural homes may be paying more for their energy bills as many do not have access to smart meters New research has found...
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04 Nov 2019
Spotlight on an affordable place to live
The RSN is calling on government to produce a fully funded, comprehensive rural strategy. In this strategy there are a number of areas which we believe are linked, and need...
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