levelling up
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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27 Jul 2022
Neighbourhood Planning: Back to the Future
It seems the death of neighbourhood planning implied by 2020’s Planning White Paper – likely quietly welcomed by many in the planning sector – has been exaggerated. The Levelling Up...
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25 Jul 2022
Government Response to the Independent Review of Destination Management Organisations (DMOs)
The government has published its formal response to the Independent Review of Destination Management Organisations (DMOs), which was undertaken by Nick de Bois and published in September 2021 England’s DMOs...
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18 Jul 2022
Rural communities discriminated against for being digitally isolated
Business Cheshire report how rural based business communities risk being “left behind” and “isolated” because they have to put up with third-rate connectivity services, a Cheshire based expert has warned Roy...
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11 Jul 2022
Rural Coalition take their message to Parliament
The Rural Coalition, a network of 13 national rural organisations who all subscribe to a vision for a living and working countryside in England, joined forces last week at a...
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04 Jul 2022
Levelling up the Leading Edge: Investing in our natural assets for collective wealth
A report produced by Cornwall Council, University of Exeter and Britain’s Leading Edge argues the case for investing in the environment and thinking more creatively about how the abundance 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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27 Jun 2022
Rural Lens Review of the Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
The Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill was published and given its first reading on 12 May 2022. The Bill, “as well as delivering against some of the ambitions set out in...
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27 Jun 2022
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) responds to RSN Research
Research launched by the Rural Services Network last week, shows how the ‘Levelling Up White paper fails to capture rural disadvantage meaning the Government should introduce new metrics’ according to...
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27 Jun 2022
Rural England Forgotten in Government’s Levelling Up White Paper
Yorkshire Times reports that according to new research commissioned by the Rural Services Network, if England’s rural communities were a distinct region, their need for levelling up would be greater...
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