Rural Planning
A future-focused vision for rural communities involves not just building the right homes in the right places but also ensuring thriving, sustainable communities.
14 Mar 2022
Rural communities let down by broken planning system
Property Reporter reports that the Country Land and Business Association, which represents 28,000 rural businesses and landowners in England and Wales, has called on the Government to overhaul its approach...
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22 Nov 2021
CPRE launch Recycling our Land Brownfields report
The CPRE last week held an event launching their latest report Recycling our land – State of Brownfield 2021 The event was chaired by Emma Bridgewater, CPRE President and featured...
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15 Nov 2021
Regeneration of brownfield sites is creating much-needed housing
The Metro reports that according to the Campaign for Rural England (CPRE), nearly 21,000 brownfield sites of different sizes are registered on local authority databases in England, with the capacity...
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01 Nov 2021
MP vows to fight to protect rural Green Belt
The Herts Advertiser reports that a government planning policy which threatens local Green Belt is being challenged by St Albans MP Daisy Cooper The issue was raised to her by...
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18 Oct 2021
53 councils get slice of £58m to deliver homes on brownfield sites
PBC Today reports that the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) has injected £58m to deliver thousands of new homes on brownfield sites The Brownfield Land Release Fund...
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04 Oct 2021
Levelling up is failing to solve the rural housing and planning crisis
An article written by our Chief Executive, Graham Biggs, featured this week in The Planner and a copy of the article is shown below The government’s ‘levelling-up’ agenda will need...
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04 Oct 2021
New planning laws will stop countryside being ruined by ‘ugly development’
The Telegraph reports that Conservative Chairman, Oliver Dowden, used his inaugural address at the Conservatives’ conference in Manchester to signal that concerns about planning reforms had been heard and reassured...
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20 Sep 2021
Lord Deben says street lights not needed in rural areas
The BBC reports that Lord Deben – chair of the Climate Change Committee – expressed to the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee that urbanising rural areas is largely antagonistic...
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20 Sep 2021
Cabinet reshuffle sparks rural planning law debate
Farmers Weekly reports that following the removal of Robert Jenrick MP from his role as Housing Secretary during last week’s Cabinet Reshuffle, speculations have appeared on whether the housebuilding programme,...
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20 Sep 2021
England to be first country to require new homes to include EV chargers
The Business Standard reports that the British government will later this year introduce legislation that will require all newly built homes and offices to feature electric vehicle chargers, making England...
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