Rural Housing
The affordability of rural housing to people from a range of ages and backgrounds is key concern for RSN.
12 Apr 2016
Call to protect affordable rural homes
Peers and rural groups have joined forces to argue for measures that protect the affordability of rural housing. The consortium includes the Rural Services Network, the Rural Housing Alliance, the...
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04 Feb 2016
A Brief Look at Housing
The provision of affordable housing in rural areas is an issue that has many implications for the future of communities. As such, the analysis ‘A Brief Look at Housing’ uses...
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15 Jul 2015
Income deprivation by settlement rurality
When looking at the social mix of people living in the most rural settlements, there is a strong feeling among many that the needs of the poorest are not being...
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08 Jun 2015
Expert warns of right-to-buy ‘disaster’
EXTENDING the right-to-buy to housing association tenants will be disastrous for rural communities, a leading academic has warned. The government’s flagship policy made “no sense,” said Mark Shucksmith, director of...
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04 Dec 2014
Affordable housing – calls to Government
The Rural Services Network calls upon an incoming Government to: Reinstate a rural target in the HCA’s Affordable Homes Programme, to ensure that investment is available to meet needs within...
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15 Sep 2014
Affordable housing threshold under fire
THE Rural Services Network has urged the government to abandon proposals to exempt smaller developments from affordable housing requirements. The Department for Communities and Local Government has been canvassing opinion...
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07 Sep 2014
MP slams ‘threat’ to affordable housing
A RURAL MP has called on the government to drop a plan to limit new affordable homes being built in small communities. Lib Dem MP Nick Harvey (North Devon) asked...
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03 Sep 2014
Rural Services Network briefing on Proposal to remove affordable housing from sites of less than 10 units
This briefing sets out the unintended and inter-related consequences of the proposal to remove an affordable housing requirement from sites of less than 10 units. Overall there is a danger...
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21 Aug 2014
Affordable Ratio Analysis
The online article ‘The 62 areas where houses are less affordable than London’, taken from the BBC News website, reflects the struggles of many people living in or looking to...
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15 Aug 2014
Unveiled: £200m brownfield site plan
A £200m government fund aims to protect the countryside from development by making it easier to build on brownfield sites. Councils can now bid for government assistance to build thousands...
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