rural economy
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22.01.2021
Plans for an organic egg enterprise in rural Kent that involved a 123-metre-wide poultry shed have been blocked by an inspector, who found unacceptable harm to the character of the Kent Downs area of...
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03.08.2020country land and business association | Economic Growth | England | NPPF | Planning reform | Rural | rural economy
The needs of the rural economy should be a higher priority in the National Planning Policy Framework, argues Mark Bridgeman
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02.07.2020biodiversity | CPRE | diversity | Economic Growth | England | Environmental | green recovery | green space | Policy & Politics | Rural | rural economy
A countryside charity has called on the government to ensure that everyone has access to green space, after the early period of total lockdown to prevent the spread of Covid-19 highlighted the inequalities surrounding who has access to it.
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26.03.2018England | Environmental | Natural England | Policy & Politics | Rural | rural communities | rural economy
There has been a ‘consistent failure, over a number of years, to prioritise the ‘rural affairs’ element of the remit of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs' (Defra), according to a report by the Lords Select Committee on the Natural Environment and Rural...
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05.06.2017
Tourism is a ‘low-hanging fruit’ that could help diversify what rural estates can offer and boost their finances, with planning ‘vital’ to achieving this, a new report claims.
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23.09.2016affordable housing | Cymru | England | Housing | landowners | Rural | rural economy | rural exception sites | UK
Landowners should be encouraged to build and manage their own affordable housing in rural areas to tackle the housing crisis, says a leading countryside campaigner.
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28.01.2016
Heart of England Farms has received permission to erect a storage building including 96 roof solar panels in Claverdon, Warwickshire, after an inspector decided that the building would have little impact on...
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02.10.2014Birmingham | Business & Enterprise | Doncaster | EMT | England | HS2 | Northumberland | rural economy | wind farm
A round-up of planning news in England: 27 September-3 October, 2014
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01.10.2014Centre for Rural Economy | farming | Newcastle University | Rural | rural economy | rural proofing | UK
The economy of the countryside is at threat owing to a lack of ‘rural-proofing’, warns a report by Newcastle University.
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