Living countryside - responding to the challenges of providing affordable rural housing

Foresight Paper 5

Campaign to Protect Rural England, 2015
Living countryside - responding to the challenges of providing affordable rural housing Download document

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Current

Supplement

Sustainability, Environment, Development & Planning

Series

Foresight Paper

Abstract

Explores affordable housing need and supply in rural areas and the current difficulties in providing this. Considers policy solutions in increasing affordable rural housing including: better funding and guidance; making land available; clarifying rural exception sites policy; exempting rural areas from the proposed extension of 'Right to buy' and also the 10-unit threshold for the provision of affordable housing.

Author

Burroughs, L.

History

July 2015 edition. Part of the Housing Foresight Series.

Subjects

  • Strategic planning
  • Residential development
  • Affordable housing
  • Rural planning
  • Other planning disciplines
  • Planning and development

Publisher History

The Campaign to Protect Rural England were formerly known as the Council for the Protection of Rural England. They have been campaigning for a sustainable future for the English countryside for 80 years. Their publications highlight threats and promote positive solutions.

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