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Government Support for Self Build Homes

Posted by Administrator on 14 May 2012

Last month saw the launch of the Government backed ‘Self Build Portal’ website. It forms part of the Government’s Housing Strategy to encourage people to build their own homes with an aim to double the number of self-build homes built in the UK. The UK currently lags far behind many European countries for the number [...]

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Rural Energy Generation

Posted by Administrator on 8 May 2012

The Campaign for Rural England (CPRE) has recently requested that the Government clearly outlines its proposals for the number and locations of future inland wind farms. Rural Solutions understands that the CPRE is acting on behalf of local groups who feel overwhelmed with wind farm applications by large developers. The CPRE’s concerns also build on [...]

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Exciting new initiative: New Country Houses launch at Grand Designs Live 2012

Posted by Administrator on 4 May 2012

At Grand Designs Live 2012 and in conjunction with Sadler Brown Architecture, Alistair W Baldwin Associates and Buro Happold Ltd, Rural Solutions is launching an exciting new initiative: ‘New Country Houses’, which offers a one-stop shop for those looking to build one-off houses in the rural landscape. The initiative responds directly to paragraph 55 of [...]

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Duncan Hartley featured in Yorkshire Post

Posted by Administrator on 3 May 2012

Duncan Hartley, Director of Planning at Rural Solutions, featured in the Yorkshire Post on Thursday 12 April in an opinion piece on the National Planning Policy Framework. Read what Duncan has to say here: ‘At last, certainty enters the planning system’.

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Rural Enterprise Zones (REZs)

Posted by Administrator on 25 April 2012

This nationwide growth initiative was mentioned by the Chancellor in November 2011 to go hand in hand with its urban counterpart. The intention is to create hubs that draw benefit from tax incentives, relaxed planning and super-fast broadband that will, as a result, become the catalyst for new companies to spring into being in the [...]

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Rural Solutions Secures Consent for Retention of Rural Employment Space

Posted by Administrator on 18 April 2012

Rural Solutions has recently helped a small business owner in North Yorkshire to secure retrospective planning permission from Craven District Council for his rural workshop. The owner of the site and adjacent residential property approached Rural Solutions following an enforcement complaint, which arose from the use of a workshop building in conjunction with his manufacturing [...]

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