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.

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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Planning Debate

On Thursday 15th July, Bob Seely MP has called a Westminster Hall Debate on the future of the planning system and the upcoming Planning Bill

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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.

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 year in England, following criticism from southern voters and MPs, who said the changes would lead to the “suburbanisation” of green areas without delivering much-needed affordable housing

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Planning reform needed to speed up rural connectivity

Farmers Weekly has published a new report commissioned by the think tank Onward and the National Farmers Union (NFU) looking into the major issues facing farming communities and rural regions in a bid to influence the government’s ‘Levelling Up’ agenda, with digital connectivity being highlighted as a key challenge

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Rural Issues Raised in Westminster Planning Debate

Last Thursday (15th July), Bob Seely MP called a Westminster Hall Debate on the future of the planning system and the upcoming Planning Bill The Rural Services Network put together a short briefing note which was sent to MP’s with rural interests prior to the debate highlighting key issues for rural communities.

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Planning Debate

On Thursday 15th July, Bob Seely MP has called a Westminster Hall Debate on the future of the planning system and the upcoming Planning Bill

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Battles loom as housing developers eye rural England

Large areas of South Downs National Park are set to be developed into new towns in order to meet Boris Johnson’s housebuilding targets of 300,000 a year, with a new formula to determine how these are distributed and an overhaul of planning laws to make it easier for developers to overcome opposition

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