Rural Housing
17 Apr 2023
Government consults on new rules to protect local people and support tourism
The Government last week opened a consultation on holiday lets and new rules to give communities greater control over short term lets in tourist hot spots. The consultation published on...
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11 Apr 2023
Planners approve modular homes for homeless in Cornwall
The BBC report Cornwall Council’s plans to install more one-bedroom modular units for homeless people on a site in Long Rock have been approved The application was unanimously approved by the...
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11 Apr 2023
Spotlight on Rural Housing – April 2023
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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20 Mar 2023
Chronic increase of ‘hidden’ homelessness in the countryside fuelled by cost-of-living crisis, ground-breaking report shows
A year-long study exposes a surge in rural rough sleeping since the pandemic has been worsened by the cost-of-living crisis According to analysis of official statistics, rough sleeping in rural...
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28 Apr 2022
Dunsfold secures its future through community ownership & affordable homes
Harriet English, Plunkett Foundation’s Head of Engagement, celebrates how the rural village of Dunsfold is securing its future by embracing community-ownership and affordable homes for locals. Creating a thriving village...
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24 Jan 2022
Rural communities ‘strangled’ by holiday let surge
Devon Live reports that a surge in homes marketed for short term holiday lets is strangling rural communities Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE), believes that an explosion of holiday...
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20 Dec 2021
CPRE – Housing Crisis
The CPRE, (the Countryside Charity), have recently published… You often hear people talk about a housing crisis, and addressing it is something that we at CPRE are passionate about. We’ll explain...
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14 Sep 2021
Ministers drop shake-up of planning laws
The Times reports that the government is reportedly backtracking on its commitment to overhaul planning laws in order to accelerate infrastructure projects with a target of building 300,000 homes a...
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14 Jun 2021
How Green Homes Grant decision penalises rural areas
President of the Country Land and Business Association (CLA), Mark Bridgeman, writes an opinion piece in the Yorkshire Post, stating that when the Government announced that it was ending its...
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14 Jun 2021
House buyers in rural towns face 13% premiums
The FT Advisor reports on new research from Halifax that found that house buyers in small rural towns face a 13 per cent premium on the UK’s market average, equivalent...
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