Rural Housing
The affordability of rural housing to people from a range of ages and backgrounds is key concern for RSN.
12 Apr 2021
Covid causing over-60s to move to rural areas
Older people have become more likely to move to the countryside whilst younger people are more often choosing to live in towns, according to the results of a survey published...
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06 Apr 2021
London is worst-performing region as UK house prices fall
The Guardian has reported on a ‘surge’ in the numbers of people who have moved out of London and other urban areas, or are planning to do so, after concluding...
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06 Apr 2021
Spotlight on Rural Housing – April 2021
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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29 Mar 2021
Far more renewables needed in UK homes to meet net-zero target
The slow uptake of small-scale renewables has created energy ‘forests’ and ‘deserts’ across the UK, a new report has revealed in Euronews and Heating, Venting and Plumbing magazine The study...
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08 Mar 2021
Government urged to “give people in villages the same opportunity as those living in bigger towns and cities”
MPs call for rural-urban parity at conference aimed at revitalising rural Warnings of cost of lack of transport and broadband infrastructure on communities further isolated by COVID-19 Government urged to...
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08 Mar 2021
EHA presents at Scottish National Housing Summit
Eden Housing Association (EHA) was delighted to be given the opportunity to present at the Scottish Rural Housing Summit on the subject of community-led housing Presenting together were EHA’s Land...
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01 Mar 2021
Budget’s case for levelling up rural areas
An article written by Graham Biggs (Chief Executive of the Rural Services Network) has been featured by the The Yorkshire Post and this can be read below. The Rural Services...
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22 Feb 2021
The Government’s ‘relentless push for development’ is ‘destroying rural England’
Ros Coward, Professor Emerita of Journalism at Roehampton University, has written in the Guardian this week that local action groups are protesting to save stretches of the countryside from destruction,...
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22 Feb 2021
Chancellor must do more to tackle rampant rural disadvantage, campaigners urge
New economic research reveals government spending per person on public infrastructure is 44% higher for urban areas than it is for rural areas. Rural Services Network, Britain’s Leading Edge, CPRE,...
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09 Feb 2021
UK-wide events to inspire and support delivery of community-led affordable homes in rural communities
Jo Lavis, ACRE’s rural housing advisor blogs ahead of the UK Rural Housing Summit 2021 and explains why groups should attend. Across the country rural communities are responding to the...
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