Living countryside - responding to the challenges of providing affordable rural housing
Foresight Paper 5
Document Status
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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