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07 Jun 2021

‘Race for space’ fuels 10.9 per cent surge in UK house prices

The Guardian reports on data revealing that younger house buyers are just as keen on building a new life in the country as they are to move to the city...

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Rural Review of the Queen’s Speech 2021
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24 May 2021

Rural Review of the Queen’s Speech 2021

At the State Opening of Parliament on Tuesday 11 May, the Government, through the Queen’s Speech, set out its priorities and programme for the coming session including the legislation it...

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22 Mar 2021

10 rural areas with the biggest property price increase in the UK

Country Living reports that rural property prices are at ‘an all-time high’, as Britons moved out of city apartments to escape to the country in lockdown this year House prices...

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15 Mar 2021

Rural property prices have risen by 20.8 per cent in the last five years

UK Investor Magazine reports that the average price of a rural property has risen by 20.8 per cent over the last five years, 3.3 per cent higher than in urban...

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01 Mar 2021

Letter to Housing Minister from APPG for Rural Services

Following an All Party Parliamentary Group meeting for Rural Services, the Chairman Rt Hon Philip Dunne MP wrote to the Minister for Housing to consider: The importance of rural exception...

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24 Aug 2020

Affordable Homes at Risk under new Planning Consultation

The Rural Services Network, along with Action with Communities in Rural England (ACRE), The Rural Housing Alliance, The Plunkett Foundation and Rural England Stakeholder Group, has written to the Secretary...

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24 Aug 2020

Supply of affordable homes in the countryside threatened

As detailed in the Rural Bulletin this week, The Rural Services Network (RSN), along with ACRE, the Rural Housing Alliance, Rural Services Network (RSN) and Plunkett Foundation have written to...

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