The National Rural Conference 2025 – Rural Affordable Housing & Planning

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Rural Affordable Housing & Planning

The Speaker Presentations can be downloaded below:

Kerry Booth, Chief Executive, Rural Services Network “RSN Introduction to Rural Affordable Housing & Planning” (Download presentation here) – View Kerry Booth’s biography here

Ulrike Maccariello, Development Director, Hastoe Housing Association “Practical considerations for the delivery of social and affordable housing in rural England” (Download presentation here) – View Ulrike Maccariello’s biography here

Max Banfield, RHE Programme Manager, ACRE “Rural Housing Enablers and the ACRE Network” (Download presentation here) – View Max Banfield’s biography here

Katarina Kubinakova, Research Fellow, Countryside and Community Research Institute “The impact of devolution on affordable rural housing delivery: Key risks and opportunities” (Download presentation here) – View Katarina Kubinakova’s biography here

Sarah Crush, Social Value Manager, Thakeham working in strategic partnership with Plunkett UK “Community business at housing development” (Download presentation here) – View Sarah Crush’s biography here

An AI generated summary of this session can be downloaded below:

Useful links from the session:

RSN Delivering for All Campaign
https://rsnonline.org.uk/delivering-for-all

Rural Housing Alliance
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/rural-housing-alliance

RSN Rural Affordable Housing related news articles
https://rsnonline.org.uk/tag/rural-affordable-housing

RSN Rural Planning related news articles
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/tag/rural-planning

RSN Housing Spotlight
https://rsnonline.org.uk/tag/rural-housing-spotlight

Untapped Potential of Rural Exception Sites
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/the-untapped-potential-of-rural-exception-sites

Mind the Gap, how rural communities are falling behind on affordable homes
https://englishrural.org.uk/affordable-housing-need-50-greater-in-rural-areas-report-reveals/

ACRE Rural Housing Enabler Programme
https://acre.org.uk/rural-housing-enabler-programme/

What is a Rural Housing Enabler
https://rsnonline.org.uk/what-is-a-rural-housing-enabler

ACRE membership map
https://acre.org.uk/acre-network-directory-map/

Homelessness in the Countryside: A Hidden Crisis by academics at the University of Kent and the University of Southampton
https://research.kent.ac.uk/rural-homelessness/home/final-report/

DEFRA research on rough sleeping
https://dev.rsnonline.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2_Housing_17_06_2025_v2.pdf

South Hams Citizens Advice Report on Hidden Homelessness
https://dev.rsnonline.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/HH-REPORT-FINAL-2024.pdf

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