Rural Housing
The affordability of rural housing to people from a range of ages and backgrounds is key concern for RSN.
08 Aug 2022
National Park planners are highly commended in RTPI awards
The work of Peak District National Park planners in achieving a high quality affordable housing scheme in a protected area has been recognised in the Royal Town Planning Institute’s East...
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08 Aug 2022
Could co-living ease the UK countryside’s housing crisis?
The Financial Times reports on a new plan to create a rented accommodation model able to address the needs of the young who would like to continue living in the...
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01 Aug 2022
Selaine Saxbyn MP: To end the rural housing crisis, we must stop treating the countryside like a holiday park
Writing in Conservative Home, Conservative MP for North Devon, Selaine Saxbyn outlines her mission has always been to level up the pockets of deprivation in her ‘remote, rural and coastal’...
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11 Jul 2022
Rural Planning in the 2020s
Rural Planning in the 2020s is a report launched this month by the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) It examines the challenges facing rural communities throughout the UK and in...
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11 Jul 2022
Spotlight on Rural Housing – July 2022
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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04 Jul 2022
RSN Seminar on Rural Affordable Housing
Ahead of Rural Housing Week, the RSN was delighted to host its seminar focusing on rural affordable housing on Wednesday 29th June with almost 100 delegates in attendance, one of...
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04 Jul 2022
Free Event – Is housing the key to levelling up the rural economy?
The National Housing Federation are holding a free virtual roundtable on the 6th of July to discuss whether housing is key to levelling uo the rural economy: Levelling up could...
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04 Jul 2022
Cornwall Council team up with OVO Energy to bring 400 warmer, greener homes to Cornwall
Insulation, heat pumps and solar are among the measures being installed. Image credit: OVO Ovo Energy Solutions, Cornwall Council and Council of the Isles of Scilly are retrofitting 400 homes...
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27 Jun 2022
Community partnership converts iconic cottage hospital into community hub and affordable homes
The conversion of an iconic cottage hospital into a community hub and nine affordable homes was officially marked by the community of Southwold and Reydon on Friday 17 June 2022...
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27 Jun 2022
Holiday homes are ‘hollowing out’ coastal areas, says MP
The Guardian reports Labour MP Luke Pollard says Covid-19 has ‘turbo-charged’ housing crisis in rural and coastal towns Coastal communities are being “hollowed out irretrievably” by a surge in holiday...
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