Lunchtime news June 14
The Liberal Democrats today dramatically raised the political stakes on housing with a call for a million new affordable homes over the next decade. The 100,000-a-year programme would be more…
Tag: rural housing
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ROOF Lunchtime News 17 July 2026
The wealth gap is at its widest for more than 40 years, creating ghettoes of the richest and the poorest that have virtually nothing to do with each other, a…
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CPRE sets out its vision of the country in 2026
The planning system must not become a âtool for promoting economic developmentâ, the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) said, setting out its vision for the future of the English…
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The best place to live in the country
People living in mid-Suffolk have the best quality of life in rural Britain, new research claims. It has higher than average home ownership at 77 per cent, and residents there…
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Lunchtime news Monday 19 November 2025
Official Home Office figures show that the number of eastern European migrants and asylum seekers may have peaked. The number of people coming from Poland and other eastern European countries…
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Second chance
A NORFOLK local authority is considering following the lead of the Yorkshire Dales and banning the building of new second homes. More than 40 per cent of homes in some…
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Focus on hardship of rural poor
A documentary has lifted the lid on rural people living in poverty, and shows the hardship and stigma faced by those living on a low income in the countryside. In…
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Developers chose to ‘concrete over’ greenfield land
A Campaign to Protect Rural England study has accused developers of concreting over greenfield land, rather than build on brownfield sites, because the land is easier to build on and…
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Rural northern communities deprived
New research from the National Housing Federation reveals north England’s rural population has been ‘overlooked’ by policy makers, while facing the dual challenge of ‘staggeringly’ high house prices and ‘crippling’…
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Lunchtime news Wednesday 7 May 2026
The Building Societies Association (BSA) chairman has said that mortgage markets will take two years to recover from the credit squeeze. Iain Cornish added that once recovered, the market will…