Rural Affordable Housing

Rural communities are grappling with a severe affordable housing crisis, marked by high house prices, elevated living costs, and lower incomes, threatening their sustainability and vitality.

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20 Jun 2022

An update from Sedgemoor District Council on affordable housing development

Affordable Housing is provided to help people who cannot afford to buy or rent homes on the open market The homes remain affordable to subsequent occupiers in the future. These...

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16 May 2022

Government must act on the interests of rural economy, CLA says

Farming UK reports that the Country Land and Business Association (CLA) has issued that the Government must set out clear steps on how it will level up the rural economy...

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09 May 2022

Housing association to build homes on rural land donated by Glastonbury founder

Inside Housing reports that The Guinness Partnership has been granted planning consent to build a further 20 social rent homes on land donated by Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis in Pilton,...

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03 May 2022

Rural voters could punish Tories over lack of levelling up policies

The Yorkshire Post reports that polling commissioned by the Country Land and Business Association in the UK’s five most rural counties found that 46 per cent of respondents had voted...

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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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11 Apr 2022

Laborious planning rules are losing support for the Tories in the countryside

The Telegraph reports that a survey commissioned by Country Land and Business Association found that laborious planning rules are losing the Conservative Party support in rural areas Around 12 million...

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07 Mar 2022

Work begins on multi million pound project to build affordable housing in Norfolk village

Norfolk Live reports that work has got underway on a £9.7 million project to build 73 new affordable homes near Norwich The development will be delivered by United Living New...

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28 Feb 2022

Soaring rural rent prices force locals into living in a Airbnb

The BBC reports how a Cornish resident has been forced into living in an Airbnb due to soaring private rent prices As a Cornish painter and decorator, Heath Robinson spends...

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14 Feb 2022

Huge rise in £1 million homes across the UK

The Times reports that one in 42 homes in Britain is worth £1 million or more, with about 80 per cent of new “property millionaires” created in the past year...

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04 Jan 2022

First Homes Report Published

On 28 December 2021 Government requirements for the provision of First Homes as part of affordable housing contributions came into effect Apart from some areas where transitional arrangements will apply,...

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